Saudi Arabia puts freeze on new Canadian trade over 'interference', asserts right to interfere in Canada's internal affairs if Canada doesn't cut it out.

[Jason]

Saudi expels Canadian envoy, recalls its own after Canada demanded the immediate release of human rights campaigners swept up in a new crackdown

 

 

 

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

KSA's state carrier has suspended flights to Toronto.

[Captain Pickle]

You forgot that they threatened terrorism similar to 9/11.  But they are your friends now so you should just ignore it.  I think they diverted your planes for you and housed thousands upon thousands of your citizens during your crisis.  Oh wait, that was us.  

 

We we had a good run though but it’s safe to say... fuck u

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

16 minutes ago, Captain Pickle said:

You forgot that they threatened terrorism similar to 9/11

I covered that in a separate thread.

[Captain Pickle]

 

30 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said:

I covered that in a separate thread.

Well, I was on break

[Jason]

 

[CitizenVectron]

Saudi Arabia has cancelled the scholarships of 16,000 Saudi students in Canada, and has ordered them to find education in another country.

 

https://www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabia-orders-16000-students-leave-canada-amid-diplomatic-row-1060547?piano_t=1

 

That's fucked.

[Signifyin(g)Monkey]

I expect the Saudis to flail ever more violently and ratchet up their totalitarianism ever more severely as the shalers continue to weaken the outsized geopolitical power their oil reserves have bestowed upon them for so long.

 

I hope the US handles the end of the petrodollar empire with a little more grace.  

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Just now, Signifyin(g)Monkey said:

I hope the US handles the end of the petrodollar empire with a little more grace.  

OLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

[Ricofoley]

Remember when Tom Friedman gave MBS a glowing interview and described him as the greatest reformer of his age or whatever?

[Signifyin(g)Monkey]

1 minute ago, SFLUFAN said:

OLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Well...To hope for something and to actually expect it to happen are two very different things.

 

Like, I hope the powerball ticket I bought today will net me $200+ million.

 

I *expect* to be out $2 instead.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

17 minutes ago, Ricofoley said:

Remember when Tom Friedman gave MBS a glowing interview and described him as the greatest reformer of his age or whatever?

Thomas Friedman Op/Ed Generator: Because this is what his writing actually looks like.

 

The Official Thomas Friedman ‘Make a Meaningless Graph’ Contest

[SilentWorld]

2 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

Saudi Arabia has cancelled the scholarships of 16,000 Saudi students in Canada, and has ordered them to find education in another country.

 

https://www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabia-orders-16000-students-leave-canada-amid-diplomatic-row-1060547?piano_t=1

 

That's fucked.

 

That's gonna be a kick in the pants to pretty much every post secondary institution in this country. 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

The Canadian currency dropped as much as 0.5 percent to C$1.3120 per U.S. dollar after the Financial Times reported that the Saudi Arabia central bank and state pension funds have instructed their overseas asset managers to dispose of Canadian assets starting Tuesday.

[CitizenVectron]

Yes, he is a very sane and stable leader:

 

 

I might be paranoid, but this seems like something that Trump would tell someone to do to punish Canada for not giving in to US trade demands.

 

[Captain Pickle]

3 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

Yes, he is a very sane and stable leader:

 

 

I might be paranoid, but this seems like something that Trump would tell someone to do to punish Canada for not giving in to US trade demands.

 

in this the darkest of times, you'd be stupid not to think that.

[CitizenVectron]

Because this really came out of nowhere, too.

[SilentWorld]

58 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

Yes, he is a very sane and stable leader:

 

 

I might be paranoid, but this seems like something that Trump would tell someone to do to punish Canada for not giving in to US trade demands.

 

 

Fuck the Saudis. We don’t fucking need them.

[CayceG]

1 hour ago, CitizenVectron said:

Yes, he is a very sane and stable leader:

 

 

I might be paranoid, but this seems like something that Trump would tell someone to do to punish Canada for not giving in to US trade demands.

 

 

If this is the case, then Trump is certainly getting better at utilizing diplomatic soft power!

[chakoo]

1 hour ago, SFLUFAN said:

The Canadian currency dropped as much as 0.5 percent to C$1.3120 per U.S. dollar after the Financial Times reported that the Saudi Arabia central bank and state pension funds have instructed their overseas asset managers to dispose of Canadian assets starting Tuesday.

We lost all of $0.007 cents

 

they’re not doing that good of a job