666 fifth avenue

[Dill]

(05-18-2018, 06:28 AM)hollodero Wrote: So Qatar finally bought that particular, obviously unsuccessful Kushner property.

There's a whole grim story behind that, there's a link putting it in the easiest to understand terms. In short, Trump overruling Tillerson on Qatar with a sudden shift towards hostility, completely unexpected, that in the meantime got reversed - while Qatar reevaluated their benefit in buying 666 fifth avenue. 666.

- Say what you want, take issue with the media all you want, call it unfair all you want, but to me this still suspiciously looks like extortion by US foreign policy means for Kushner's benefit. That's so great!

Serious question, is this really the country you want to be. Starting with being the country where admin members make huge real estate deals with foreign entities while in office to begin with. You can't do that   !

Apparently we can.  United States of Uzbekistan.

I have mentioned this Qatar issue before in this forum, but for its foreign policy consequences.  Qatar, though small, was the US most trustworthy and progressive ally of all the Gulf States. And in heartbeat they were embargoed by SA and the UAE with Trump sanction. That was sort of what happens when the US creates a power vacuum in conflict areas, but in this case the most important US Airbase in the region was compromised. Just before Trump broke the Iran deal. 

I suppose if you know nothing of US foreign policy this is a shoulder shrug, though. "People said the Middle East would explode when Trump was elected but it hasn't." 

I am trying to think of a current, first-world country in which such consequential foreign policy could be driven by the financial needs of a state leader's in-law.