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Saudi Arabia ‘most obsequious’ regime ever in kowtowing to US: Scholar

Figures depicting US President Donald Trump as an angel and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman with a bloody chainsaw are seen on a carnival float in a carnival street parade in Duesseldorf, western Germany, on March 4, 2019. (Photo by AFP)

Saudi Arabia is the “most obsequious” regime when it comes to kowtowing to Washington's foreign policy initiatives in the Middle East, an American scholar says, suggesting that the recent deadly shooting at a naval base in Florida might be a retaliation for US-Saudi atrocities. 

Kevin Barrett, an author, journalist and radio host in Madison, Wisconsin, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Sunday, while commenting on the fatal shooting by a Saudi Air Force officer, identified as Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, at the Naval Air Station Pensacola on Friday.

Trump and members of his administration have attempted to protect the US-Saudi alliance from further scrutiny following the shooting incident. Trump sufficed it to say that the Saudi leadership was "devastated" by the attack and that King Salman would somehow be involved in “taking care of families and loved ones.”

In the phone interview, Barrett rejected media speculations that the deadly incident was terrorism-related and described it as a retaliatory attack in response to US-Saudi atrocities against Muslims across the world.

“This was not a terrorist attack by any means, anyone who calls this a terrorist attack is a liar. It was an attack on military personnel, terrorism is defined as attacking civilians, these were not civilians, so this was a military attack by somebody who is angry that the United States has murdered 27 million Muslims all over the world, in response to the false flag Neo-conservative Zionist coup d’etat of the September 11, 2001,” Barrett said.

“This individual may also have been angry that the current Saudi government is supporting the genocide of Muslims all over the world and supporting the Zionist genocide in the occupied Palestine,” he added.

The American academic went on to say that, “The Saudi government today may be having a hard time keeping control of its citizens who are appalled at the fact that the current Saudi regime under [Crown Prince Mohammad] bin Salman is the most obsequious, boot-licking regime ever in terms of its kneeling down and kissing up to the American empire and specially the Zionists who control the American empire.”

Barrett further noted that, "These kinds of disastrous manifestations of sick and totally dysfunctional relationship between these two evil governments will undoubtedly continue."

Trump and other administration officials had similarly offered a weak and feckless response to the murder of Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and its subsequent cover-up by the Saudi leadership.

Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi crown prince, was slain and dismembered by a Saudi hit squad after being lured into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018.

There is still no objective accounting – by Saudi or American officials -- of what happened in the consulate, let alone any real accountability.

Trump has repeatedly brushed aside the grisly murder, saying a Saudi pledge to purchase billions of dollars worth of US arms “means something to me.”


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