{"id":178055,"date":"2019-03-20T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/03\/20\/kremlinology-is-difficult-with-people-this-evil\/"},"modified":"2019-03-20T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T23:25:00","slug":"kremlinology-is-difficult-with-people-this-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/03\/20\/kremlinology-is-difficult-with-people-this-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Kremlinology is Difficult with People This Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"
I am referring, of course, to the House of Saud, where it appears that what appears to be a superficial clipping of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s wings by his father<\/a>: <\/div>\n

The heir to the Saudi throne has not attended a series of high-profile ministerial and diplomatic meetings in Saudi Arabia<\/a> over the last fortnight and is alleged to have been stripped of some of his financial and economic authority, the Guardian has been told. <\/p>\n

The move to restrict, if only temporarily, the responsibilities of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman<\/a> is understood to have been revealed to a group of senior ministers earlier last week by his father, King Salman. <\/p>\n

The king is said to have asked Bin Salman to be at this cabinet meeting, but he failed to attend. <\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

The relationship between the king and his son has been under scrutiny since the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi<\/a>, which was alleged to have been ordered by Prince Mohammed and provoked international condemnation of the crown prince. This has been denied<\/a> by the Saudi government.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

But while most observers expect Prince Mohammed to accede to the throne, there are some signs that the king is seeking to rein in his controversial son at a time when Saudi Arabia is under the spotlight.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t know what this all means.<\/p>\n

I simply do not have a frame of reference:  The Saudi court is simply to venal and too unconcerned about their subjects’ well being for me to understand their approach to governance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am referring, of course, to the House of Saud, where it appears that what appears to be a superficial clipping of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s wings by his father: The heir to the Saudi throne has not attended a series of high-profile ministerial and diplomatic meetings in Saudi Arabia over the last fortnight …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[509,374],"class_list":["post-178055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-house-of-saud","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}