Sunday News Breakdown: West's Desperate Corruption

There's a few stories that I wanted to talk about today. But let's start with Joe Biden's plan that he announced at the State of the Union address the other day, I think it was on Friday, where he said that they're planning to construct a temporary pier off the Port Of Gaza or off the coast of Gaza, supposedly to assist with the delivery of humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians. I mean, the criticism just writes itself. You wanna somehow demonstrate to the world that you actually care about the victims of the genocide, that you are arming, you are funding, you are supporting and enabling in every conceivable way, and after you have vetoed repeatedly every ceasefire resolution that came to the United Nations that could have brought a halt to the mass murder that you and your client state are committing. Are you serious?

Could you just not think of another way to insult the intelligence of the world? Or are you really that out of touch? Are you seriously that out of touch that you think you actually believe that this completely cynical and empty gesture will convince anyone in the world that you have good intentions. I mean, I can't even take it seriously as a gesture. Biden didn't consult with the Israelis.

He didn't consult with the Palestinians as far as we know. He just unilaterally and seemingly at the spur of the moment decided to announce that the US military is going to build some sort of floating pier off the coast of Gaza in the Mediterranean Sea. It doesn't even bear the hallmarks of an actual plan. Even if we naively assume that they actually mean it, that they really mean it, then what does that mean? What does that show except how completely The US has lost control of Israel?

How Netanyahu has gone completely rogue at this point, completely off the leash, The US is helpless to stop him. I mean, you're either unwilling or unable to stop him. There's no other conclusion you can be reached, and neither one of those is a very good look. I mean, move The US makes halves their influence in The Middle East. It reduces it by orders of magnitude.

It's like when an iPad battery goes from, you know, 30% to 5% in the blink of an eye. And how does that look exactly? You know, sliding up to the coast of Gaza to help deliver aid while your client state is continuously bombing. It's like someone who has a some crazy spouse who's just spewing abuse and profanity at guests at a dinner party. So then the husband starts texting, you know, privately, secretly texting everybody, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry she said that. Because he's too emasculated to confront his spouse and put her in check. But of course, no one really has any question about whether it's a matter of being unable or being unwilling. We all know what it is. The four vetoes against ceasefires in five months resolves any ambiguity about that.

The continuous pumping of money and weapons into Israel answers that question once and for all for everybody. I mean, I had to, the most positive spin you could possibly make on this plan is that it does signal a breakdown in the relationship between America and Israel, and there is a breakdown in that relationship. And there's a breakdown in that relationship because the whole world is holding America responsible for the genocide, as well they should. And they're holding American companies responsible for the genocide. The whole world is turning away, from Western businesses.

Because as I've said since October 7, Zionism is bad for business. Support for Zionism is bad for business, and complicity in genocide is fatal for business. And the OCGFC are siding and will always tend to side with overwhelming popular opinion in the global South. By overwhelming, what I mean is popular opinion that cannot be overcome by propaganda. And what's happening in Gaza cannot be obscured.

You can't fool anyone who's outside of your highly controlled indoctrination system system that you have in the West. And what the Americans and what the Israelis are doing in Gaza is having reverberations all around the globe. There's nothing you can do about that. So on some level, I think that The US is trying to both save face and trying to distance itself from its own client and from its own actions. Like, yes, we vetoed the ceasefire resolution, that's true, but it isn't because we don't care.

You see, we're we're going to make sure, you know, we're doing all we can to make sure that aid reaches those poor people whom we are slaughtering. Subhanallah, they are so severely out of touch with the rest of the world. They're so severely deluded about the extent to which their their credibility has completely evaporated globally. They have no clue how grotesque they look to the world right now. It's like a zombie who thinks he's still as handsome and as charming as he was before he died and became a rotting corpse.

And he can't understand why everyone's trying to avoid him now. I mean seriously, at this point they should just put that insignia for toxic waste on the American flag instead of the stars because that's how everyone sees it. Okay. Now there are a few stories that I wanna look at combine them together, because they all relate to Saudi Arabia. The first one is about how Saudi Arabia has transferred 8% of the shares of Aramco to their sovereign wealth fund, is called the public investment fund, PIF.

That's gonna give PIF about a $160,000,000,000 more for investment, is money that they have been using, that the PIF has been using to diversify the economy and to invest in all sorts of projects domestically and around the world, and to pump funds into innovation and entrepreneurship and so on. So they're boosting their ability to do this now. And they need to do that frankly because they've been spending a lot of money lately. So that's a very clever thing that they're doing. Now the other story has to do with the EU and how they are currently in negotiations with Saudi Arabia, with UAE, and with Qatar to repurchase artillery shells so that they can send them to Ukraine.

The GCC countries have massive stockpiles of these shells. They're going all going all the way back to the first Gulf War in the early nineteen nineties. Saudi Arabia, I think, has at least half a million shells like that. So obviously we're talking about old artillery shells, so who knows if they even work anymore. But the European Union is offering to buy them back anyway.

Imagine that. You sold them shells thirty years ago, twenty, thirty years ago, and they just sat in warehouses all that time and now you wanna buy them again. This shows you a number of things if you think about this. First of all, it shows you that Europe is out of ammunition. Secondly, it shows that they are tied to support for Ukraine like a hostage who has a remote control bomb tied around his neck, and he's being forced to rob a bank by his captor.

They're completely helpless. They're out of ammunition, but they're still required to send ammunition to Ukraine. So now they're turning to the GCC for old bombs, and the GCC still has those old bombs. And why is that? Because they didn't buy those bombs to use them.

They bought them as an investment and as leverage. They bought those bombs for influence. And I've said this a number of times, when the Gulf countries, you know, buy all this weapons technology, what they're doing is buying influence. With the most powerful political sector in the West, or one of the most powerful political sectors in the West, one of the most one of the strongest political lobbies in Washington. They don't need the missiles.

This is just another way of paying a thousand dollars per plate at a fundraising dinner for a politician. They're not buying the food. They're buying access and influence. And you can see that by the fact that they never used the bombs. They never ate what was on that thousand dollar plate.

That's that's the same way that they never used the bombs, because it was never anything but a political pay to play donation. It wasn't a purchase. If it was a purchase of anything, it was a purchase of influence. So now those same shells that they bought twenty thirty years ago to get influence are giving them even more influence today. You know?

SubhanAllah. Decades later, those bombs are buying them leverage all over again because Europe is over a barrel. It's like a, you know, the squirrel who saved up acorns for the winter when nobody else did. You can bet also when the when the winter does come in Europe, the real winter comes, they'll be also again knocking on the GCC's door once more. Now this connects to the to the next story, which is about two employees of an Airbus subsidiary called GPT Special Project Management.

They were accused of giving bribes to Saudi officials in order to secure military product deals, purchasing. Between 2007 and 2012, they gave Saudi officials about $12,000,000 to get those purchasing contracts. The employees were were acquitted this week because it was revealed that the bribes that they gave the Saudi officials were authorized by the British Ministry of Defense. Now think about that. What do you think that told Saudi Arabia?

What do you think that revealed to them, about the West and especially about The UK and and very precisely about the weapons the the British weapons industry? Told them that they're desperate. It told them that they're corrupt. Told them that they're greedy and that they need the Saudis more than the Saudis need them. And I think that this is a lesson that the Gulf has been steadily learning little by little for the past few decades, many years now.

At a certain point, I think that they might have actually thought that the West really did care, about their so called values, about their so called civilization, about their principles and so on. And that made it a little bit difficult, it made it delicate, awkward to try to navigate relations with them. But eventually, I think the Gulf countries had an epiphany. Oh, they're just prostitutes. They don't actually care about anything but money.

Well, that makes it easier. That makes navigating, the relationship much much easier. When you realize that you're not actually, that you're not the one who is benefiting from the relationship, they are. Then you don't have to act grateful anymore. You don't have to be obsequious anymore.

And I think that that's what we're seeing. I think that that's why you saw Mohammed bin Salman in that Fox TV interview saying that Saudi Arabia is the number one weapons purchaser from The United States. And if they won, they can always buy from someone else. That was a threat. That was a very thinly veiled threat.

That was putting America in its place. It was sending a message to US weapons companies. They stand to lose their best customer. So therefore, they need to remember that the customer is always right. And I think this is a big part of why we see the Gulf countries being dismissive of The United States now, being defiant.

Because I think they have finally understood, that America and that the West, aren't these honorable princesses that have to be carefully and respectfully courted. They're just prostitutes. So the awe has waned considerably, you know. As the Arabs say, America has fallen down from their eyes and there's no way back, from that fall. And it's about time.

So the Gulf country, Saudi Arabia especially, I think have exhibited, considerable shrewdness, and the West has exposed, their desperate corruption. Europe is showing itself to be, I think, utterly pathetic. And you know, in The US, they've been dumbing down their education system for so long, and they've been inundating their population with brain deadening entertainment and fake news for so long, that I think even their leaders, even their, propagandists believe their own propaganda. It's like the entire political class is on hallucinogens. They're so wildly out of touch with the world, and they're so oblivious to how wretched their reputation is right now, how how wretched their reputation has gotten, that they're simply not equipped at this point to operate effectively on the world stage anymore.

You know, would say that not only is there an economic shift to the global South taking place, but there's also an expertise shift. There's an acumen shift. There's a a capability shift and a skill shift. Western political leaders are extravagantly inept today. And that goes for the whole so called ruling class, including the intelligence services, including the intelligence agencies, including the media, including the deep state.

The skills that they once had, they don't have anymore. They can't even control opinion anymore. You know, their ability to manufacture consent has eroded just as much as industrial manufacturing has eroded. They're not what they used to be. And they can't do what they used to be able to do.

I mean, they can't even do PR stunts right anymore, like this supposed pier off the coast of Gaza. It's laughable. It's a dismissible blunder, and that seems to be the only thing that The US is capable of doing anymore. Seriously, watching America conduct foreign policy is like watching Joe Biden ride a bicycle. You know, when you see, Biden sort of wander across the stage looking for the exit after he's made his remarks, he's the embodiment of the whole power structure of The United States these days.

The whole country is like they have Benjamin Button disease because the ruling class of that country has infantilized the society for so long, has been doing it for decades, and now all those toddlers are stumbling around the corridors of power, who who who were brought up in that infantilizing society. But now the problem for them is that they're sitting across the table, the negotiating table, they're sitting across that table from adults. And I think that, over the next few years and certainly over the next few decades, we're gonna see that the, grown ups of the global South are gonna put America on a time out, and it's about time. So inshallah, this is gonna be a regular feature every Sunday and every Wednesday, where I will take two or three, four articles and give a sort of a commentary and an analysis of those articles. But this is gonna be a feature that's gonna be available only to members.

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