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US to announce deal allowing Saudi Arabia a nuclear programme, reports say

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj03r59z73po
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u/Abject_Elevator5461 5h ago

I’m so tired of hearing the word “deal”.

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u/mountearl 5h ago

Every time you see a headline that says "US announces deal", replace the words with with "US announces Trump bribe" and the headlines make a lot more sense.

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u/hyphyphyp 3h ago

"Trump Bribe and Vague Promise"*

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u/mr_birkenblatt 3h ago

Promise is such a strong word. How about suggestion or gesture?

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u/Grumpy-Man19 3h ago

or just "USA disturbs the world peace"

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u/Oneanddonequestion 4h ago

I'm about to write to the AP Guidelines and request they add a section on "words to avoid" which should include:

Slams. Deal. Under Fire. Bombs. Blasts. Destroys. New. Unprecedented. Groundbreaking.

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u/DangerBay2015 4h ago

Will the AP “clap back”?

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u/bobbyrob1 4h ago

Add the word obliterated

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u/peacepipe0351 4h ago

Don't forget embarrassed and humiliated

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u/Sleazy-Wonder 3h ago

Good news, moms alive. Bad news, she's sleeping my boss Rog, King of the Slams.

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u/xChoke1x 4h ago

They’re never “deals.”

They’re poorly constructed bullshit that enriches their family’s, and fucks the country.

It’s what they do.

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u/roller_coaster325 4h ago

Typical Republican play, do only look at what benefits they now, and leave the mess to be cleaned up by the democratic next term. Then, when we all forget who caused it, they blame the democratics and take over again to repeat the cycle.

The democrats aren’t savy enough to keep the public informed and remember the mess either. Trump list the 2020 election my a significant margin (by US standards), yet we seems to have forgot what his and his cohorts did. 2024, he won by a greater margin than Biden did in 2020.

Make sure kids get a proper education and revert back to news organizations having to show both sides, otherwise, no democracy.

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u/lactose_cow 3h ago

I have a deal with the pool guy where he can fuck my wife and I get nothing

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u/Flank_This666 2h ago

Everytime I hear "deal" through that shithead's network I automatically think "fuckup"

"Art of the Fuck-Up" is the real title of his toilet paper book

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u/Kenshirosan 4h ago

Seriously, it basically has no meaning anymore beyond "someone is bribing the president" at this point. 

There are a few of his common verbal tics that I'm exhausted of hearing that have been picked up by people.

Hes basically a broken record that spews the same shit every day and acts like its Shakespeare or something.

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u/ballzsweat 5h ago

How does the rest of the world not have a say in this? I call BS on this “deal”!

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u/sarhoshamiral 5h ago

They do. It is just that our media doesnt report it that way since they have to make trump look good.

If China etc wants to stop this, they have the means. US doesnt really have the standing it had once anymore. In fact the Iran fiasco likely cemented the idea that US cant really enforce anything anymore.

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u/SasparillaTango 3h ago

Trump has destroyed american credibility. Trump has proven america will not honor agreements that it signs. An insane dementia patient can come in and tear them up at any point in time.

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u/F9-0021 3h ago

Iran and Ukraine really more enforced the idea that attackers with a strong organized military are at a strong disadvantage against defensive guerrilla fighters with drones. It reflects poorly on the US, but it would also reflect poorly on China's capability to capture Taiwan, or anywhere else for that matter. Warfare has shifted, Russia and the US got caught out because they haven't evolved with the times yet. China has the advantage of being the third party to sit back and learn from it. But right now they don't have an answer just yet. Taiwan would also do well to take note and invest in drone manufacturing for exactly that reason. Cuba as well would be smart to acquire some, though they probably don't have the resources to do so.

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u/AcanthisittaNo6653 5h ago

How many 9/11 terrorists came from Saudi Arabia, and how many came from Iran?

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u/Camwi 5h ago

Saudi Arabia: 15

Iran: 0

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u/matt95110 5h ago

Luckily for MAGA they don't understand what those numbers mean.

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u/c0mf0rtableli4r 5h ago

Its because they're Arabic.

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u/Krednaught 5h ago

Got dayum

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u/jpiro 5h ago

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u/MiniTab 1h ago

And that story is from 2019.

I’m sure it’s considerably worse than that now (only 29% surveyed believed that “Arabic numerals” should be taught in US schools).

Absolutely insane. Thanks for posting that article.

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u/shadedren 4h ago

MAGA would be mad if they could read

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u/tangocat777 5h ago

Math is too woke.

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u/UlrichZauber 4h ago

Numbers, becoming other numbers? People are saying it's the trans agenda!

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 4h ago

Hey, let's give the guys with 15 terrorists nukes! Hell yeah! It's a brilliant move, if I understand it correctly.

Why not take huge steaming dumps on the graves of our fallen New Yorkers and soldiers while we're at it? Conservatives already do every single day! Guess we should join in.

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u/kaizerlith 2h ago

Also the guy who kidnapped, murdered and chopped up a journalist. But im sure Maga sees that as a plus. Since Trump kinda brushed it off. "Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen." 

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u/StrictSelf5450 5h ago

Everyone seems to conveniently forget this

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u/o_MrBombastic_o 5h ago

Not everyone just Republicans 

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u/nowhereman136 5h ago

They didn't forget, they just don't care

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u/FlametopFred 3h ago

Republican politicians remember and intentionally misuse to foster “bad things” so they can stay in power

example: we now know how absolute shit the Russian military really is but for decades fear of their forces funded the pentagon

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u/bread-depth 5h ago

In their defense they forget a lot of things.

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u/turkey_sandwiches 5h ago

Bribes are a hell of a drug.

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u/AcanthisittaNo6653 5h ago

My generation grew up during the Cold War and viewed Russia as the enemy. Now they are our "friends". Gen Z and Millennials grew up post 9/11 and viewed Saudis with suspicion. With the stoke of a pen, and a little Kash under the table, this president declares them our friends.

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u/aDirtyMartini 5h ago

And were funded by the Saudis.

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u/KawhiTheKing 5h ago

Who were previously back doored by Mossad and the CIA.

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u/InfernoBA 5h ago

One of Al-Qaeda’s stated goals was overthrowing the Saudi monarchy. I don’t doubt that the 9/11 hijackers had support from some lower level Saudi government employees, but I don’t believe it was pushed from the top and no evidence has come out to support that.

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u/Dabbling_in_Pacifism 4h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_Saudi_role_in_the_September_11_attacks

Well, we know that the FBI thought that it was at the very least a mid-level Saudi government conspiracy being led by someone who reported directly to the Saudi ambassador.

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u/Same_Mood_8543 5h ago

There's evidence of funding links between the Saudi royal family and Al Qaeda, even if it isn't definitive. Much of the issue with the evidence is the heavy redactions the US government made obscuring the identities and specific roles, but it's not just made up out of thin air. 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/documents/evidence-of-financial-links-between-saudi-royal-family-and-al-qaeda

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u/IguanaIsBack 4h ago

The royal family isn’t a single entity, there’s 15,000 of them. Less than 1% are anywhere near decision making.

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u/MrCalamiteh 3h ago

Also, Khoshaggi. (Please look this up if you don't know)

They are absolutely not to be trusted. This is just as insane as I'd expect these literally insane people to be.

Sad shit.

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u/aasfourasfar 3h ago

Khashoggi would be a better spelling to look him up

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u/EddieVanzetti 4h ago

15 out of 19 hijackers were Saudis. That's... 78%? If I did my math correctly

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u/thejawa 4h ago

That's a lot of Arabic numerals right there... You one 'dem terrorists?

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u/Penguinkeith 5h ago

Never forget hold a grudge against the people who financed and carried out the 9/11 attacks I guess

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u/tenderbranson88 5h ago

The terries won. Anti-women policy is being propagated, fear, hatred, and the destruction of American values.

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u/Basicly-Inevitable 5h ago edited 5h ago

How much money did they hand to Kushner this time?

And is this related to Jared Kushner leveraging the $2 billion backed by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund (via Affinity Partners) to finance his major real estate projects in the Balkans. Which includes a $1.4 billion luxury resort development on Sazan Island, a former secretive military submarine base off the coast of Albania?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2026/06/03/why-jared-kushner-and-ivanka-trumps-albanian-resort-plans-are-under-fire/

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u/tdw21 5h ago

Cant blame them, their previous island kind of got burned with all the bad publicity Epstein gave it

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u/Mriddle74 4h ago

The financier??

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u/NEVERxxEVER 3h ago

Not Jeff Epstein?

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u/OG_Williker 4h ago

How tf do you even spend 1.4 BILLION DOLLARS building a resort?! That’s like two orders of magnitude off

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u/Basicly-Inevitable 4h ago edited 4h ago

The island is a former military base, with extensive bunkers underground, and a submarine base. It sits at a critical transportation bottleneck location where enormous amounts of essential goods pass daily.

The Saudi government is trying to control a choke point for Europe, and also build a nuclear weapon.

But yeah.. just a $1.4 billion resort.

"The island is located at the narrowest point of the Otranto Strait, where the Adriatic Sea meets the Ionian Sea off the southwestern coast of Albania. Because it sits directly across from the "heel" of Italy, anyone who controls Sazan effectively controls the bottleneck entrance to the entire Adriatic Sea, making it a vital chokepoint for naval traffic entering or leaving Southern Europe."

"The island remains under the jurisdiction of the Albanian Ministry of Defence. It is a virtual time capsule littered with an estimated 2,700 defense bunkers, a network of underground tunnels, decaying military barracks, and fields of undetonated landmines."

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u/OG_Williker 4h ago

That makes a lot more sense

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u/Basicly-Inevitable 4h ago edited 34m ago

Tech billionaires, venture capitalists, and foreign governments also want to do the same with strategic places like the Panama canal and the Golden Gate, selling off the Presidio and Alcatraz, pretending to build resorts. But it's really because it would give them direct control over the thinnest point in an essential shipping channel, and the ability to cut off the Oakland ports.

Trump recently fired the entire Presidio Trust Board, and replaced them with tech people and loyalists.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/trump-fires-sf-presidio-board-of-trustees/4067611/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3dlpk0zzy1o

Egypt officially transferred sovereignty of two strategic Red Sea islands, Tiran and Sanafir, to Saudi Arabia.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40278568

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u/RandomlyMethodical 3h ago

Damn! That sounds like the setting for a Bond film.

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u/bpetersonlaw 5h ago

Is Israel cool with this? I’m surprised Kushner would back it otherwise

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u/Mtnbkr92 5h ago

IIRC Israel and Saudi Arabia have some sort of backdoor thing going on, possibly based on a shared dislike of Iran.

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u/Whatdoesthibattahndo 4h ago

Israel prefers Saudi Arabia over Iran especially after MBS took control and got a hold on the family/country finances (they are the same), effectively cutting off the various extremists that had previously been able to count on Saudi money when the Saudi royal family was more of a 3000-person gagglefuck rather than the more corporate structure it has now.

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u/OrangeVoxel 4h ago

That’s what the crypto scams were

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u/Basicly-Inevitable 4h ago

It's the best way to launder bribes and scam dumb people simultaneously.

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u/Careful-Lettuce9239 5h ago

You remember the headline "Jared kushner goes rogue"? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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u/Oper8rActual 5h ago

The first payment was the 747 they gifted Trump.

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u/Basicly-Inevitable 5h ago edited 5h ago

That was Qatar.

Saudi Arabia gave him $2billion to "manage".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68296877

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u/Basicly-Inevitable 5h ago

I remember this one. The 666 property.

"Paid Kushner Companies for a 99-year lease on the family’s marquee 666 Fifth Avenue property."

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u/Whatdoesthibattahndo 4h ago

That building was bankrupting the Kushner family, so the deal was even more important to him

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u/Ozymandias12 5h ago

Easy mistake to make. It’s hard to keep up with all the corruption and the bribes.

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u/Oper8rActual 5h ago

Ahh, my bad. It gets really difficult keeping up with all the grifting that’s been done this time ‘round.

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u/h0twired 5h ago

The second payment will be another 747... delivered into the side of a tall building in NYC

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u/Ok-Crow-1515 5h ago

Oh great. The guy who orders members of the press to be murdered and chopped up gets nukes. Trumps kind of person.

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u/MRtokeALOT420 5h ago

“The agreement could be worth billions of dollars to the US, whose companies could be involved in building a facility to produce enriched uranium”

Can’t wait to see what they used to bribe him this time. Was he promise oil? money? gold? or all above. Something was giving and it sure as hell isn’t going to benefit the American people

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u/graphomaniacal 5h ago

"Pushing the world closer to nuclear midnight is good because money."

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u/BabaYadaPoe 4h ago

technically speaking SA already have nuclear weapons, they are simply being safe guard in Pakistan, so having civilian reactors in SA probably won't change much.

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u/Turkino 5h ago

Oh great so we might be helping them build stuff that future terrorists will use against us.

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u/Kajega 5h ago

Based on what we've simply wasted on Iran, what do billions even mean?

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u/turkey_sandwiches 5h ago

"Could be worth"

"could be involved"

Art of the deal.

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u/DudeyMcDudester 5h ago

I imagine it's related to a disastrous Iran war that the Saudis are irate about and the now certainty that Iran is going to eventually acquire a nuclear weapon themselves.

I don't think Saudi Arabia asked for permission, they likely told US they are just going to do it and the Americans went along, desperate to salvage the relationship.

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u/Voodoocookie 5h ago

72 virgins

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u/Spam_Hand 5h ago

They always are until trump gets a hold of them at age 11.

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u/DarkSatire482 5h ago

Of course they are doing this...Saudi Arabia paid the correct bribe.

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u/sfhester 4h ago

Hey Iran - you don't need to keep fighting that pesky war! Just bribe Donald directly and he'll forget all about that nuclear program and you'll save everyone a few hundred billion in the process!

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u/DarkSatire482 4h ago

I hate how accurate this is...Maybe a new jet or free land for Trump Tower Tehran.

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u/Raintitan 5h ago

This is a huge deal from a foreign policy standpoint, and it conflict with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferation_of_Nuclear_Weapons

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u/Tribe303 4h ago

This should be the top comment. Yet another deal Trump breaks, but this one could lead to nuclear Armageddon. His stupidity is not so funny now, is it? 

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u/FIFofNovember 3h ago

Republicans still love him and will vote for the next republican after him

This doesn’t end with Trump, this is the beginning of more stupid shit

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u/ClintBruno 5h ago edited 5h ago

15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were Saudis.

For some reason we went to war with Iraq Iran Afghanistan for nuclear weapons of mass destruction

Now we're giving SA nuclear?

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u/No_Move_6802 5h ago

We went to war with Iraq for alleged WMD (Colin Powell claimed they had yellow cake uranium).

We were in Afghanistan because that’s where the Taliban were and we had been going after bin Laden since the attack on the USS Cole or maybe sooner. Afghanistan had nothing to do with nukes.

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u/ChuckNorrisUSAF 5h ago

Colin Powell was repeatedly fed bad or misleading intelligence by Bush’s own intel community, in turn he unknowingly (or knowingly) “lied” to the United Nations.

Powell was already butting heads with Cheney and others in the administration about the pivot to Iraq when it wasn’t necessary. Sure he’s probably culpable to a point for even pushing the narrative they fed him and could have easily resigned, but that’s not his character.

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u/schreinz 4h ago

Powell knew he was lying about WMDs. Just like he knew he was lying to cover-up Iran-Contra. And how he lied to help cover-up Mi Lai.

I don't care that at one point he "butted heads" with others in the administration. He could have stepped down, as the British Foreign Minister did. But Powell instead played a massive role in dragging us into an unnecessary war.

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u/No_Move_6802 5h ago

I believe it. Only mentioned him because his testimony to Congress about yellow cake uranium and mobile enrichment facilities directly led to the Iraq war.

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u/One-Emu-1103 5h ago

And ban or restrict immigrants from countries for less than that

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u/Meathand 5h ago

You don’t understand in the past we had dumb presidents… but this time.,,, this time it’s different

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u/ghostbusteraesthetic 5h ago

What a fucking joke.

Our president is a traitorous rapist pos.

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u/MagicBoyUK 5h ago

Fucking morons. Everywhere.

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u/TooMuchPowerful 2h ago

That's where the morons keep coming from. 

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u/ChemicalResident3557 5h ago

Why does the US unilaterally get to decide what country can have nuclear weapons?

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u/SockMonkeh 5h ago

When you have nukes they let you do it.

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u/JaronJervis 5h ago

Funny isn't it? The only country (America) to slaughter another (Japan) with Nukes, somehow remains the upmost authority on who can even have Nukes.

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u/RhoOfFeh 5h ago

Bone saws aren't good enough, huh?

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u/Lacarpetronn 3h ago

And barrels of acid. Can’t forget that cherry on top.

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u/toomuchmucil 5h ago

Here is a headline from 2019:

>Flynn-backed plan to transfer nuclear tech to Saudis may have broken laws, say whistleblowers

They’ve been pushing this deal since 2017.

“Seven days after the inauguration — and two days before a scheduled call with King Salman of Saudi Arabia — Harvey met in his office at the White House with a group of retired generals who work for IP3, including its co-founders, Keane and McFarlane, the report says.” Source is NBC News.

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u/MechRxn 5h ago

Could you imagine if Obama did this?

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u/Solistaria 5h ago

No, because he isn't a grifting moron like our current president.

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u/MechRxn 5h ago

The outrage from the right would be unprecedented if a Democrat did this. I also don’t believe any normal or sane president would ever allow a ME country to build nukes let alone HELP them. Fucking absurd.

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u/speedingpullet 4h ago

It's a simple equation: on one side you have a nation with more money that it knows what to do with. On the other, a man who has spent his entire life grifting, who now finds himself at the top of the food chain in US politics and is therefore one of the most powerful people in the world...

Et violá

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u/One-Emu-1103 5h ago

I don't think Israel will be happy with this or how Netanyahu help set the ball rolling. But I bet Trump 's and Kushner's bank accounts will be.

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u/mixmasterADD 4h ago

Israelis and the Saudis are basically cousins.

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u/One-Emu-1103 4h ago

Haven't you heard of a Family Fued? 😃

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u/jenny_905 3h ago

The only risk to Israel is if Saudis grow tired of their monarchy.

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u/camio101 5h ago

All the rightwing sites have buried this story or not reported on it all as usual.

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u/Imaginary_Cow_6379 3h ago

They have to get their talking points straight first so they can all repeat why this is actually a good thing.

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u/ChuckNorrisUSAF 5h ago

Because this will stabilize the gulf region…….. 🤦🏼‍♂️

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u/Sweet_Bridge_3001 5h ago

Effectively, this is the announcement that US cannot stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, so they must help Saudi Arabia too.

The response will be the UAE starting to develop nuclear weapons to counter Saudi, which will cause Turkey to start developing nuclear weapons to counter UAE; the genie is out of the bottle.

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u/BloodFartz69 5h ago

How many Iranians were in the planes on 9/11? How many Saudis?

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u/dope_sheet 5h ago

Republicans are a joke of a political party now. What do you stand for besides grifting now?

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u/speedingpullet 4h ago

'Now' is a loaded word here. They've always been a joke and the grifting part was in the original charter.

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u/Aidan96 5h ago

Everyone needs to go watch Fahrenheit 9/11 again. It’ll piss you off more than when you watched it the first time I promise.

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u/Deeth_ 5h ago

Trump already handed them the nuke secrets he stored in his bathroom at Mar a Lago. This is Trump administration "saving face". Fucking disgusting.

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u/Alleandros 4h ago

The people behind 9/11 btw.

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u/mindgame18 4h ago

Country responsible for 9/11 btw.

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u/Verum_Orbis 3h ago

15 of 19 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. None were from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, or Syria.

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u/Attjack 3h ago

The country that attacked us on 911? That Saudi Arabia?

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u/roller_coaster325 5h ago

This is insane, the Saudis are a fundamental religious monarchy, I say this because there are no checks and balances. If the king says to launch, that’s the only authority needed. Given that Iran will have the bomb soon, and is also a religious dictatorship, this has a greater potential to tune into a nuclear conflict than many other potential (ie, North Korea/US, India/Pakistan, China/US, Russia/US, Russia/China, even potentially Iran/Israel.

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u/optiplex9000 5h ago

Saudi Arabia is a dangerous fundamentalist religious dictatorship

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u/LanguageImpossible32 4h ago

Wowwwwww…..

-Wasn’t it primarily radicalized Saudi’s who orchestrated 9/11?
-And isn’t MBS (de facto Saudi leader) explicitly tied to journalist Kamal Khashoggi’s murder and dismemberment but essentially had no consequences for his actions?
-We decided it’s ok to proliferate access to nuclear weapons for these people?!?!?

We are beyond addicted to oil, it’s truly disgusting.

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u/garitone 4h ago

Cool. The country with the most 9/11 hijackers and also a huge contingent of wahabist ideology can get a nuke. What could go wrong?

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u/Electrical-Berry4916 4h ago

Was 9/11 just a joke to these idiots?

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u/Lint47 4h ago

I didn't realize that the US was the one who "gave" everyone "permission"...ugh

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u/cbjunior 4h ago

You mean the same place where most of the 9/11 hijackers along with Bin Ladin are from?

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u/brigadoom 5h ago edited 5h ago

On the same day that AI launched an autonomous cyberattack. What could possibly go wrong?

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u/N_Associated 5h ago

Whoa I must’ve missed that - where?

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u/DrowningKrown 5h ago

Oh god not this bs again. We copying anthropic now? "Oh no, my LLM who isn't sentient at all went ROGUE and started hacking the mainframe! We couldn't stop it, it was so powerful (available now on the $200/mo pro plan)

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u/quantizeddreams 5h ago

I think there is a movie about this.

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u/AKA_Wildcard 5h ago

The grim reaper needs to work faster

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u/CantAffordzUsername 5h ago

Trump selling Nukes…Cute

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u/Groovychick1978 5h ago

Yeah this is fine, they just trained and financially supported the people who destroyed our fucking nation!

I have not forgotten Saudi Arabia's role in 9/11. Fuck the Trump administration for this. 

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u/SiempreRegreso 4h ago

More of a terror regime than Iran. The Saudis quite deliberately fund the madrasas that produce the imams that are injected into foreign mosques to preach atavistic 8th Sunni Islam. They are a major reason why so many second and third generation Muslim immigrants rebel against host society norms and radicalize.

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u/BigBadBubbaGumper 4h ago

Allowing? How is the US the one who gets to decide this?

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u/Black_Otter 5h ago

You know….the guys that brought you 9/11

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u/O-parker 5h ago

Just what the world needs ..more nukes 🤮

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u/BannedPoet248 5h ago

Money can buy anything, and the Saudis bought a seat at the table

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u/philasurfer2 5h ago

What percentage of the business did the Trump family negotiate for themselves?  

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u/Shepher27 5h ago

One group of apocalyptic religious fanatics giving nukes to another.

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u/ragerevel 5h ago

The 9/11 guys? The Khashoggi guys? Epstein ties to Bin Salmaan guys?

Sure why not!

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u/Ugicywapih 4h ago

So, if nuclear non-proliferation is no longer relevant, at least within context of middle-eastern theocracies, Trump will back off from Iran, right?

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u/gao7on 4h ago

The guy in the photo, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), is straight up evil. For those unaware, the Saudi prince green-lit the assassination of dissident journalist Khashoggi. Even an award-winning documentary was made about the shocking embassy murder. Yet, MBS still received US immunity over the alleged killing.

MBS strategically played the US knowing the West needed an ally in the Middle East. Both for energy security and to prevent Saudis from aligning with Russia and China.

Without question Trump is personally receiving heavy incentives from the oil rich Crown in relinquishing such sensitive national security secrets to an authoritarian killer such as MBS.

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u/3D-Dreams 4h ago

So wait. Didn't he JUST start a war so another country couldn't have a nuclear program?

Fucking corrupt piece of shit.

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u/xdeltax97 4h ago edited 3h ago

We’re giving the perpetrators of 9/11, NUKE TECH

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u/Sweatytubesock 4h ago

This will end well. For Trump, anyway, as he takes his bribe for this ‘deal’.

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u/iPatErgoSum 4h ago

Honest question, isn’t there an international nonproliferation treaty that would have something to say about something like this?

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u/WriterShoddy7599 4h ago

You meant the Country who funded 9/11

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u/SwimmingPirate9070 3h ago

The Saudis, who brought is such bangers as 9/11

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u/Doc_Chim_Richolds 3h ago

The country responsible for the funding and execution of 9/11 is being handed nuclear capabilities. The War on "Terrorism" was an absolute lie.

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u/Additional-Can-5206 3h ago

The same Saudis who attacked us on 9-11. Great Idea!!!

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u/ExpendableGerbil 2h ago

Years ago I wondered how millions of Americans could still follow this absolutely gigantic moron. I don't think there's a word in the English language to describe how disappointed I am in America now, considering that there are still millions of Americans following him.

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u/Artistic_Half_8301 2h ago

Fifteen of the nineteen hijackers involved in the September 11 attacks were citizens of Saudi Arabia.

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u/mydogargos 1h ago

Oh good... allow the real perpetrators of 9/11 to go nuclear.

u/tehCharo 46m ago

Remember when they tried pushing the narrative that voting for Mamdani was voting for the enemy that did 9/11? Tell me again who were and who funded the terrorist who actually did 9/11 and why are we going to trust them with nuclear weapons?

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u/ZeroOptionLightning 5h ago

Ah yes. The place where the 9 11 guys were from.

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u/CooledDownKane 5h ago

So the NPT was just unilaterally thrown out by Kumquat Kaiser? And he thinks this won't lead to a mad dash by other countries to join the nuclear weapons party?

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u/Red_PapaEmertius2 5h ago

I dont know how this is remotely positive.

I also know that Riyadh has an enormous desert to get solar energy from..

Why are we building nuclear plants other than to counter Iran?...

Thats most likely the Saudi thinking.

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u/HumansNeedNotApply1 5h ago

Putting solar panels on desert is actually pretty bad, mix of heat, sand and transmission losses, so high maintenance.

See what is happening with the Bhadla Solar Park in India.

Of course that's not to say that jumping to Nuclear power makes sense.

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u/BlueBomber13 5h ago

Going to eat with Iran because they don’t have nuclear weapons, while giving Saudi Arabia nuclear weapons…

What fucking reality is this. This has to be a simulation

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u/Big_Sky7699 5h ago

No doubt, the Saudis have paid someone dearly for this, someone with very close ties to the Whitehouse.

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u/AnalTinnitus 5h ago

Fucking hell. I know that with Trump we should expect a new low every day, but this one is unique in that it puts EVERYONE on the planet in danger. This changes the balance of power in a toxic region of the world. It's nightmare scenario stuff.

I have little faith in the UN these days, but they need to make it clear that the US can't just unilaterally decide to "bless" a violent religious nation with nukes.

Whatever happened to NO NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION?

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u/jersey856 5h ago

Serious question: why does America get to decide what sovereign countries can have nuclear programs?

If the goal is truly ‘crazy ppl can’t have them’ then why is N Korea allowed?

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u/Jimbomcdeans 5h ago

The 9/11 causing Saudis are going to get a nuclear program?

I cant see ANYTHING wrong with that. Nothing once so ever.

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u/Darth_Atton 4h ago

This might be the single dumbest decision by a leader let alone an American one, in recent history. How are Americans not saying enough is enough? I do not understand it for the life of me. 

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u/rahbee33 4h ago

What could possibly go wrong?

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u/junesix 4h ago
  1. This effectively signals that US has no ability to backstop security of allies.
  2. This signals to everyone they should arm up and seek their own deal. It could be with US, Russia, NK, Israel, China, India, anyone with nukes and willing to deal.
  3. If your country is on or adjacent to a critical and valuable resource, you better arm up. You’re a target.
  4. If your neighbor has nukes and historical beef with you, better arm up.
  5. If you have potential to be a nuclear producing and supplying country, the market was just created.
  6. NK maybe just became the most interesting country overnight. They have means to supply but lacked economics.

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u/joejacksonsbelt 4h ago

We'll regret that in my lifetime I bet.

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u/lorilightning79 4h ago

What could go wrong with the country behind 9/11.

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u/Verabiza891720 4h ago

Okay so Saudi Arabia can have a nuke but Iran can't? Make it make sense.

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u/ApprehensivePay1735 4h ago

Sure why not let the guys who did 9/11 have a nuke program in conjunction with the country that hid Bin Laden while we break our military against their regional enemy.

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u/ThatsAllFolksAgain 4h ago

Yeah, give nukes to the country that sent 19 men to destroy America on 9/11. It’d be poetic if they sign the deal on 9/11.

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u/gamesbonds 4h ago

Don't worry it's just a coincidence that Trump org just signed a deal for real estate and hotels in Saudi as well!

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u/jpttpj 4h ago

This is great. So the folks that funded 911 get weapons to kill us all. What a piece of art

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u/Turdsley 4h ago

Allowing the country that helped with 9/11 have nukes is certain to Make America Great Again.

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u/AwareOfAlpacas 4h ago

When the Saudis are pushing for nuclear power, you know peak oil had already come and gone. 

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u/grossinm 4h ago

Arming everyone to the teeth has worked out so well in the past....

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u/Katakuna7 4h ago

Ah yes, of course, this particular flavor of terrorists can have a nuclear treat. Not those Iranian terrorists, though, we have to ruin the global economy to make sure that particular flavor of terrorist doesn't get any.

Nevermind that these terrorists did 9/11, small potatoes really.

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u/The_Ref17 4h ago

Wow

No way that one will ever backfire on us or our putative allies ..

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u/AunMeLlevaLaConcha 4h ago

Because two towers and then some weren't enough, i guess

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u/sealosam 3h ago

But they gave trump the tallest building in Manhattan, remember?

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u/NeedleGunMonkey 4h ago

The folks most responsible for 9/11 and global funding spread of new Wahhabism that gave rise to so much militant terrorism around the world - now get a nuclear program because corruption of an wrinkled tangerine.

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u/Throwawayconcern2023 3h ago

It can't get worse. Every day we say. Right?

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u/rdmodsrtrsh 1h ago

I can’t wait till the country involved in 9-11 will have nukes at their disposal

u/PlutoJones42 48m ago

Give nukes to the people that committed 911? Republicans have fully lost the plot and they all need to be voted out.

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u/A_Nonny_Muse 38m ago

I'm reminded that half the 9-11 terrorists were Saudi citizens.

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u/kpobari99 5h ago

How would the rest of the gulf nation take this news. Wouldn’t that solidified Iran pursuit of nuclear facilities

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u/estoypooping2 5h ago

These are the 9/11 guys BTW