in this exploration you have the opportunity to discover things the tv won't even begin to speak about, let alone hurricane trump at one of his speaking extravaganza's, but suffice it to say, the saudi's and the empire ain't what they're sold to you as being;

On the 2^nd October 2018 Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, apparently seeking documents in relation to his recent divorce. He has not been seen since. The Saudis initially claimed he had left the consulate alive. In the face of a steady leak of material from the Turkish authorities they offered a variety of implausible explanations before conceding that he was in fact dead.

The whereabouts of Khashoggi’s body, whole, dismembered or dissolved in acid, has not been disclosed.

What is now acknowledged as a brutal murder of an exiled journalist was the basis of much outrage in the western media. In the catalogue of Saudi atrocities in recent years, the death of Khashoggi rates rather low, but that did not stop the barrage of criticism directed at Saudi Arabia in general and its effective political leader Mohammad bin Salman (MbS) in particular.

In recent days, more details have emerged about the surrounding circumstances of the murder, including the fact that the United Kingdom government knew in advance what the Saudis planned for Khashoggi but failed to warn him. They were unlikely to have been the only intelligence agency privy to Saudi plans.

His death therefore, and the furore surrounding it, has therefore to be seen as part of a wider geopolitical scenario. Khashoggi’s death, as unfortunate and as brutal as it was, can be seen as a pawn in the greater game.

To understand what that game was, it is necessary to go back to when MbS became the heir apparent and began his political program. There were token gestures that attracted western media attention, such as permitting women to drive. They were however, a smoke screen for much more significant geopolitical moves, none of which would have endeared him to the Americans and their allies.

The Saudi economy relies almost exclusively on the sale of oil, and that commodity is not only being depleted, it is also inextricably tied to the United States dollar. This has been the case since the early 1970s when the Nixon administration offered US ‘protection’ in exchange for all oil sales being denominated in US dollars.

For decades, that arrangement served the Saudis (and the Americans) very well. It’s brought untold riches to the kingdom, very little of which was wisely spent. Saudi Arabia became one of the greatest sponsors of terrorism throughout the world, supporting radical jihadist groups in Pakistan, Xinjiang province in China, Indonesia, the Philippines and many other places.

All of this was tolerated by the West and the United States in particular. There were a number of reasons for this. First, the use of jihadi terrorists served US foreign policy goals, undermining governments that were insufficiently obedient to American wishes.

Secondly, and of vast importance, it sustained the unique role of the dollar in international trade, in effect forcing other countries to subsidize the US economy that would otherwise have been exposed to the inevitable consequences of running huge internal and foreign trade deficits.......
https://journal-neo.org/2018/11/10/the-death-of-khashoggi-reveals-more-than-a-murder/