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This sounds horrible for security. Yeah, let's accept a new Air Force One from a shady foreign state. Surely it's completely safe and not wired at all.
The very same foreign government who hacked Jeff Bezos phone and assassinated a US citizen. Both of which happened during Trumps first term.
The very same foreign state that bailed Jared Kushner out of a billion dollar real estate debt.
But Hunter's dick pic!
No it isn't? That was Saudi Arabia. And Khashoggi wasn't a citizen, just a green card holder. Qatar is mostly known for harbouring the leadership of Hamas
And exploiting Indian, Nepalese and Bangladeshi workers for ridiculous high risk construction sites.
Yeah, but every one of the Oil empires does that. They also treat women like shit and fund the bombing of Yemen.
Brave, but I think qatar has a much broader history and current reality than its minimal resistance to genocide.
It sure does have some history. Even recent history!
What’s wrong with Hamas? Don’t nearly all Western states have favorable relations with Israel despite the illegal occupation since 1967 and the genocide since 2023? Why pick on the Palestinian government in Gaza? Why would Qatar having relations with them be bad?
Also “oil empire”, get real. Unless you mean the USA.
Qatar is absolutely an oil empire. 60% of their GDP comes from oil.
Either way, regardless of what country it comes from, using a gifted plane from a foreign government as air force one is wild.
Would you use ‘shady’ to describe all foreign states or just the Arab ones?
I don't think Qatar, after the whole slavery scams and worker deaths that hit the news for the FIFA World Cup, is the one you want to be defending here. They are shady, regardless what region they are in.
Also, false dichotomy. Not all foreign states are shady, some non-Arab foreign states can be shady, and Qatar could still be shady.
Just all shady foreign states. Maybe just the ones murdering journalists and sawing them into little pieces?