signalmankenneth
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I don’t know why this wasn’t above-the-fold news all across the country over the past few days as the details of the “peace plan” Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff took to Putin this week came out.
Kushner, it appears, had added in a provision that would have forced both Ukraine and Russia to take actions that would specifically benefit Saudi Arabia, a country that is paying the presidential son-in-law at least $25 million a year.
Can you imagine what the response would have been if George Marshall, while negotiating the 1948 Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after WWII, had been personally taking millions from, say, Saudi Arabia, and thus inserted a provision ensuring that country could permanently benefit from the peace plan?
Given that then-President Truman and Marshall were Democrats, it’s safe to predict that the GOP would have melted down, but so would have the press. After all, the early-1920s Teapot Dome scandal — then one of the most infamous in US presidential history — only involved an oil company bribing the then-Secretary of the Interior with around $300,000.
The brutal kingdom of Saudi Arabia owns agricultural land in many far-flung places, from their alfalfa farms in Arizona to an investment in 400,000 acres in Western Ukraine devoted to growing grain for export. The only way to get that grain to the Black Sea where it can enter world markets is via barges down the Dnieper River, which cuts across Ukraine.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/thom-hartmann/115605/kushner-ukraine-saudi-arabia-the-conflict-of-interest-story-everyone-s-ignoring
Kushner, it appears, had added in a provision that would have forced both Ukraine and Russia to take actions that would specifically benefit Saudi Arabia, a country that is paying the presidential son-in-law at least $25 million a year.
Can you imagine what the response would have been if George Marshall, while negotiating the 1948 Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after WWII, had been personally taking millions from, say, Saudi Arabia, and thus inserted a provision ensuring that country could permanently benefit from the peace plan?
Given that then-President Truman and Marshall were Democrats, it’s safe to predict that the GOP would have melted down, but so would have the press. After all, the early-1920s Teapot Dome scandal — then one of the most infamous in US presidential history — only involved an oil company bribing the then-Secretary of the Interior with around $300,000.
The brutal kingdom of Saudi Arabia owns agricultural land in many far-flung places, from their alfalfa farms in Arizona to an investment in 400,000 acres in Western Ukraine devoted to growing grain for export. The only way to get that grain to the Black Sea where it can enter world markets is via barges down the Dnieper River, which cuts across Ukraine.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/thom-hartmann/115605/kushner-ukraine-saudi-arabia-the-conflict-of-interest-story-everyone-s-ignoring
