The West and Saudi Arabia - a match made in murder

John Wight
6 min readOct 19, 2018
Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman

With the brute clear-eyed logic of which only dictators are capable, Stalin reminds us that while ‘the death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic’. Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, the brutal and barbaric manner of it, along with the brazenness of his killers in carrying it out in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, has produced more revulsion in the West towards the Saudi kleptocracy…

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