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cachukis

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14. My sense it is from MBS' desire to transform the

Reply to IthinkThereforeIAM (Reply #12)

Mon Apr 6, 2026, 09:12 AM

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Saudi economy from oil as a commodity.
Kushner and the Abraham Accords was all about getting Saudi money into the west. Trump bought in and the Saudi money machine is on full blast to persuade Trump to destroy the Shia antithesis to the westernization of the Sunni ignoring the Quran rules on usury.
Not enough understand the dichotomy to the Shia Sunni rivalry.
The Shia believe their Muhammed genetics force them to obey the Quran more strictly.
Their defense of it gets them to heaven.

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