I think that we have determined a method to Valdimir Putin’s various machinations.
Russia warned the U.S. against any effort to influence the royal succession in Saudi Arabia, offering its support to embattled Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who’s under continuing pressure over the killing of a government critic.
President Vladimir Putin’s envoy to the Middle East said Prince Mohammed has every right to inherit the throne when the ailing 82-year-old King Salman dies.
“Of course we are against interference. The Saudi people and leadership must decide such questions themselves,” Mikhail Bogdanov, who is also deputy foreign minister, said in an interview in Moscow on Tuesday. “The King made a decision and I can’t even imagine on what grounds someone in America will interfere in such an issue and think about who should rule Saudi Arabia, now or in the future. This is a Saudi matter.”
When you look at the various allegations of meddling by Putin, allegations that he supported Trump,. Erdoğan, le Pen, Modi, and now MBS.
It makes his life a lot easier when people that you have to deal with are stupid, monomaniacal, and/or delusional.
*President Adam Weisshaupt (from Dave Sim’s Cerebus)
I thought you were going to describe Putin's actions are being in defense of democracy.
No, I was taking a cheap opportunity to quote Cerebus the Aardvark.