Dow futures are down 50, Nasdaq -20. Over in Asia, the Hang Seng is -300 and the KOSPI is off by 0.8% — after the Saudi government went fucking apeshit by arresting and accidenting 8 high ranking officials, including a the son of the former crown prince of Saudi Arabia — Prince Mansour bin Muqrin.
Helicopter’d
Here’s the quick rundown.
Prince Alwaleed’s grandfather, Riad Al Solh, was the first Prime Minister of Lebanon. The good Prince was arrested yesterday on charges of corruption. Moreover, the Prime Minister of Lebanon resigned in a shock move, claiming he felt his life was at risk.
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri announced his resignation on Saturday, stressing that “Iran’s hands in the region will be cut off,” emphasizing the fact that “wherever Iran is involved, there is nothing but devastation and chaos.”
“Iran has a strong desire to destroy the Arab world,” he said in his televised resignation speech.
Hariri warned that “the evil that Iran sends to the region will eventually backfire on Tehran.”
Hariri said: “Iran controls the region and the decision-making in both Syria and Iraq.”
In his statement, Hariri said Iran was “losing in its interference in the affairs of the Arab world”, adding that Lebanon would “rise as it had done in the past” and “cut off the hands that wickedly extend into it”.
Hariri stressed his rejection of the use of Hezbollah’s weapons against the Lebanese and Syrians, pointing out that “the intervention of Hezbollah caused us problems with our Arab neighborhood.”
Hariri said that he is aware that there are assassination plots against his life saying: “I sensed that there are people who secretly want me dead.”
In his speech, he said the atmosphere in the country is similar to the one that existed before his father, the late prime minister Rafik Hariri, was assassinated in 2005.
“We are living in a climate similar to the atmosphere that prevailed before the assassination of (his father the late prime minister) martyr Rafik al-Hariri. I have sensed what is being plotted covertly to target my life,” he said.
He continued: “We will not allow Lebanon to become a trigger for the security of the region,” explaining that “frustration and fragmentation in Lebanon is unacceptable.”
On Friday, Saudi Arabia intercepted missiles from Yemen, then 11 Saudi Princes were arrested, and now a helicopter filled with 8 high level officials, including a Prince, was killed in an ‘accidental’ chopper incident.
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So what has changed recently that could be the cause of all this fuckery?
ISIS has been defeated in Syria, a group which was likely funded and supported by these Saudi Princes. The Saudi Aramco IPO, which Trump shitposted on twitter the other day. Or perhaps this is a legitimate purge of corruption in the House of Saud by the new King?
One thing is for certain, the son of the current King and the next King of Saudi Arabia, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is behind the whole gambit.
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The latter is likely the least likely to be true.
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Buddy Holly was a camel jockey too.
This is like straight Game of Thrones shit.
Nah dude. Godfather Part two. Micheal aka Orange One.
We helicopter’d some folks.
ISIS, funded by SA, has been defeated in Syria. That funding had to come from “somewhere”. There were high-up people in SA responsible for coordinating the ISIS funding and logistics. They failed. Now we know who they were. They will be punished and pay out of their own funds for the ISIS failed mission.
That they were trying to evade arrest would be consistent with the current events…