carne
Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
I saved the best part of the book for today:
There is only one mention of Pakistan in the entire book—but it reveals the very DNA of Pakistan’s ruling elite and its foreign policy.
During a meeting between MBS and Senator Lindsey Graham, Graham expressed concerns that Saudi Arabia’s interest in enriching uranium might be perceived as an attempt to build a nuclear bomb. To this, MBS responded:
“I don’t need uranium to make a bomb; I’ll just buy one from Pakistan.”
It appears that Pakistan’s security state has recklessly put the nuclear bomb up for sale, and in doing so it has opened itself to deeper foreign interventions, chaos and destabilisation in the country.
There is no way this was going to go unnoticed and without a response by regional and international players.
