I've never once done this. but what are we talking about the saudi gov??? they took money from a bank, not MBS
The point of brining up is the US is NOWHERE is there anything substantiated about this being with the gov. just a saudi bank. There's a anonymous source repeating a xenophobic trope that all US enemies governments are incestuous with their private sector (which is true of the US). Its a standard that no chinese or saudi citizen can meet because people will just insinuate that their linked to their government without evidence because "thats how their governments work". This logic isn't applied to the US and pointing that out is supposed to get people to ask, why do we talk about foreign governments in such a different way? why is this news?
If this article was about a proven or probable link ? then i'd be derailing. but its fair to say that there no reason a saudi citizen can't fund an american. but they're under the xenophobic cloud (because theirs no evidence that its linked to the government, again if there was I'd happily criticize them) there's just this thread that the russo bros did something wrong because a saudi bank was involved. What did they do wrong? take money from an arab bank?
the us examples are to show that the same thing happens here but their not criticized in the same way because these type of articles are part of a propaganda campaign to assert US and the West's dominance. this is NOT to say there aren't very real crimes done by those governments, its to promote a reflection to inquire to what purpose these articles serve. You can use real crimes that should be addressed in a propaganda campaign whose goals are entirely different than real human rights concerns!
I'm not trying to accuse anyone of intentional xenophobia but to point out these articles aren't objective and serve a purpose that's unrelated to very real human rights concerns and rely on xenophobic and racist tropes to accomplish that.
I don't think that's off topic
