US Sanctions Against Saudis Would Anger Military-Industrial Complex: Analyst

• PressTV Published on Oct 22, 2018
  The brutal murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, has put US President Donald Trump in a difficult dilemma, a US academic and analyst says. If Washington imposes sanctions against Riyadh over Khashoggi’s killing, it would create outrage in the US military–industrial complex,“ said James Fetzer, a retired professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota. Khashoggi’s murder “appears to have been designed to put President Trump in a dilemma where he either accepts the brutality of the murder and imposes sanctions on the Saudis, which would upset the military–industrial complex because it would entail canceling $110 billion worth of arms orders or he seeks to preserve his relationship with the Saudis …. and inflames the world,” Fetzer said in an interview with Press TV on Monday.

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