Saudi Arabia to execute man for being at protests and funerals when he was 15
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Lot of Saudi Arabia execution stories this week.
They have to quash dissent as they are getting their asses handed to them by a rebel group in the most impoverished place in the region that they have been bullying for decades, quite unsuccessfully this last one.
They’re busy bees. Very busy for a dead polluted shithole without a single river.
Trump loves the Saudis, and has many financial/criminal ties to them. The Saudis are basically untouchable right now, on account of their helping defend Israel against Iranian missle attacks not long ago. The Saudis are motivated by the possibly lucrative IMEC trade corridor (which the October 7 attacks intentionally spooked, a trade corridor under similar attacks might not look safe, so Israel's genocide is in part related to securing their part of IMEC).
The Saudis too will become more Fascist as Trump remains in power.
trying to keep the religious fundamentalist in line, to distract from your future as an oil state, which will run dry eventually, if not sooner, if people are adopting evs faster than oil runs out.
They are just Isis that made it into a country