Разбор заявления Трампа

В продолжение моей предыдущей записи, в которой я привел сегодняшнее заявление Трампа.

Я скопирую сюда довольно подобный разбор различных утверждений, содержащихся в этом заявлении.

Thomas Juneau:

Given how weird, even by Trumpian standards, today's White House statement on Saudi Arabia is, here is a line by line comment; pardon the long-ish thread:

1. "Iran is responsible for the bloody proxy war in Yemen": no, by no objective measure is that true. The war was local, then Saudi intervened, and subsequently only did Iran increase its low support to the Houthis.

2. "Assad has killed millions of his own citizens": Inacurate. Assad is responsible for far more deaths in Syria than any other actor but hundreds of thousands, not millions.

3. "Saudi Arabia would gladly withdraw from Yemen if the Iranians would agree to do the same": nonsense. Saudi will not withdraw from Yemen, gladly or otherwise. And if it were ready to, this trade would be very strange, since Saudi has a massive investment in Yemen, unlike Iran.

4. Saudi "agreed to spend and invest $450 billion" in the US. Man, Trump drinks that kool-aid. There is no evidence this is true. 100Ks of jobs and "tremendous economic development"? Have I ever got a server in a basement in Chappaqua to sell you.

5. "$110 billion will be spent" by Saudi on buying US weapons. This has long been debunked. Some of these deals are Obama-era; most have not materialized yet. In practice, the real number is far lower.

6. "If we foolishly cancel these contracts, Russia and China would be the enormous beneficiaries": nonsense again. Saudi is so dependent on US (and western) military kit (and training, spare parts, etc) that shifting to Russian/Chinese procurement would take decades and entail massive costs. Trump simply does not understand that this gives the US tremendous leverage, not the other way around.

7. "Saudi Arabia says Khashoggi was an enemy of the state": to be clear, the President of the United States endorses a brutal dictatorship's labeling a dissident (and a mild one at that) an "enemy of the state".

8. "King Salman and MbS deny any knowledge... maybe he did, maybe he didn't": bullshit. Dynamics in Saudi Arabia in the past three years very, very strongly point towards MbS's direct responsibility.

9. Saudi Arabia is not an ally; the US does not have an alliance with it. It is a partner.

Conclusion: I could add many other rebuttals. Bottomline, a pile of lies, BS, and nonsense; don't expect this Administration to move to pressure Saudi or to change things.

Я от себя добавлю вот что. Это заранее подготовленное заявление. Каким образом туда попало "Bashar Assad in Syria (who has killed millions of his own citizens)"? Зачем врать о том, о чем врать нет вообще никакой нужды? Трамп это делает автоматически, но данное заявление перед публикацией ведь читали и другие люди.