In the West, they write about the "new" Saudi Arabia - with increasing dissatisfaction with the king’s policies

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In the West, they write about the "new" Saudi Arabia - with increasing dissatisfaction with the king’s policies

The course of the Western press on information pressure in relation to Saudi Arabia is traced. On the eve of the British "BBC" came out with material (with reference to an expert) that Saudi Arabia itself is to blame for the crisis that is now plaguing its economy. A similar opinion is held in Denmark and Germany.

Forbes comes out with material that accuses Saudi officials of the economic crisis in the country. The article in this publication is called: “New” Saudi Arabia, where taxes are tripled and benefits are reduced.



Authors Jim Crane and Christian Ulrichsen write the following:

Almost tax-free Saudi Arabia now risks becoming a completely different place (on the map).

We are talking about the decision of the Saudi monarchy to revise tax legislation in the direction of raising tax rates. VAT increased from 5 percent to 15.

In Saudi Arabia, a large-scale investment program Vision-2030 was suspended, against which the kingdom faced an unprecedented outflow of capital.

Forbes Analysts:

For Saudis accustomed to a one-way cash flow - from the state treasury to their wallets - these changes should seem strange. Since the 70s, monarchs have directed excess profits from the sale of oil, including to their legitimization, to service social obligations.

Now, it is claimed, everything is different. Energy subsidies are being canceled. And if earlier in Saudi Arabia the prices for natural gas, gasoline, desalinated water were “ridiculous” (by the standards of income of citizens), now they are rushing towards the world average.

Western media have written that subjects now publish portraits of King Abdullah, the predecessor of the current monarch Salman, on Twitter and other social networks. It is noted that this is "a signal to the current monarch that his predecessor cared for the people of the country more and better."

That is, there is an increase in dissatisfaction with the king’s policies.

From the material:

Old state rules prohibiting “taxation without representation” are thrown out the window.

It is stated that people in the country wish for a change for the better, and so far in Saudi Arabia everything is going to deepen differentiation.
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    1. +2
      14 May 2020 10: 18
      "In the West, they write about a 'new' Saudi Arabia - with growing dissatisfaction with the king's policies"

      If kings were more often interested in the opinions of their peoples, then there were no crises, let alone revolutions.
      But ... it doesn’t really bother kings.
      1. +19
        14 May 2020 10: 24
        Quote: Doccor18
        If kings were more often interested in the opinions of their peoples, then there were no crises, let alone revolutions.
        But ... it doesn’t really bother kings.

        That's the point. But the kings suddenly begin to be very interested in the opinion of the people if they knock on the doors of their palaces with rifle butts. Judging by the informational wave of the West, they are ready to help "democratize" the Saudi people. While assessing the risks for themselves
        1. +8
          14 May 2020 10: 31
          In the West, they write about the "new" Saudi Arabia - with increasing dissatisfaction with the king’s policies

          Well, West-West, there is discord ...

          1. -3
            14 May 2020 12: 34
            Almost tax-free Saudi Arabia now risks becoming a completely different place (on the map).
            We are talking about the decision of the Saudi monarchy to revise tax legislation in the direction of raising tax rates. VAT increased from 5 percent to 15.

            And what place is Russia with a VAT rate of 20%?

            the kingdom is faced with an unprecedented outflow of capital

            Alarmists! In Russia, more than a trillion dollars abroad has flowed. And nothing -
            Vladimir Putin, well done,
            Politician, leader and fighter!
            1. -5
              14 May 2020 17: 44
              Quote: Stas157
              Vladimir Putin, well done,
              Politician, leader and fighter!

              wherever you look, solid ... n ... holiday ... Yes
        2. +4
          14 May 2020 10: 57
          There is no such people. In an extreme case, the Arabian Arabs. The country is named after the dynasty. It would be if the Russian Empire was called Romanovsk Eurasia.
          1. +4
            14 May 2020 11: 20
            Quote: Sergej1972
            There is no such people. In an extreme case, the Arabian Arabs.

            Yes
            I would even call them different tribes, with a shared history of living in a certain territory ...
            1. +2
              14 May 2020 12: 27
              I agree. And the relationship between them is complicated.
        3. -2
          14 May 2020 17: 43
          Quote: Volodin
          kings suddenly become very interested in the opinion of the people, if the doors of their palaces are knocked with butts.

          how true is this Alex! good Putin would have realized that ....
      2. +1
        14 May 2020 11: 33
        So then do not complain about the Ipatiev houses, where they are shot. negative stop
      3. -2
        14 May 2020 11: 43
        If kings were more often interested in the opinions of their peoples, then there were no crises, let alone revolutions.
        But ... it doesn’t really bother kings.

        Judging by the income and standard of living of the Saudis, all the kings care. But the prime ministers are raising everything, from taxes to pensions.
      4. -4
        14 May 2020 11: 56
        Quote: Doccor18
        If kings were more often interested in the opinions of their peoples, then there were no crises, let alone revolutions.
        But ... it doesn’t really bother kings.

        And so the power should systematically change ... The more you sit in one place, the more megalomania
        1. +1
          14 May 2020 13: 04
          Persuaded .. even sit for 50 years at the throne and do whatever they want ...
      5. 0
        14 May 2020 12: 04
        Quote: Doccor18
        "In the West they write

        In the West, they just never write anything. Trump solves the problem: at the expense of whom the United States will enter a new technological mode (who will pay). Despite the fact that US debt is well over 22 trillion. Options: China, EU, KSA ... well and further on the list. Some have already been stripped and swollen.
      6. 0
        14 May 2020 12: 31
        They relied only on oil without even trying to invest in other areas.
        1. 0
          14 May 2020 16: 31
          You're not right. How to invest. However, the States decided to rob Saudi Arabia - their own shirt is closer to their bodies - and, as a drink to give, found good reason. Nothing, leaning against China (although radish horseradish is not sweeter).
        2. 0
          14 May 2020 19: 40
          Quote: knn54
          They relied only on oil without even trying to invest in other areas.

          There are only desert sands .. And all that could be created .. But this is too small a percentage for their economy .. Islamic tourism is well developed (Pilgrimage to the shrine of Islam)
    2. +4
      14 May 2020 10: 18
      With the Saudis, everything is clear - the oil will run out, jumped onto the camels and roam again.
      And to us, what to do with such an increase in industry? Well, at least the military-industrial complex is pulling something!
      1. -5
        14 May 2020 10: 25
        Quote: Hunter 2
        With the Saudis, everything is clear - the oil will run out, jumped onto the camels and roam again.
        And to us, what to do with such an increase in industry? Well, at least the military-industrial complex is pulling something!

        What should we do without oil? For example, finally seriously engage in alternative energy sources. Or we’ll continue to feed the Rothschilds and Rockefellers. By the way, in tsarist Russia they understood this, but it doesn’t reach our helmsmen ... well, or they don’t need it, due to the fact that they provide oil not only for their old age, but also the old age of their distant descendant relatives.
        1. +10
          14 May 2020 10: 39
          What are the alternative sources? Are you trucks and other equipment in the north, for example, you can recharge from the sun or wind?
          1. -9
            14 May 2020 10: 42
            Quote: rocket757
            What are the alternative sources? Are you trucks and other equipment in the north, for example, you can recharge from the sun or wind?

            And the sun and the wind are all the alternatives that your fantasy has come to? And steam, electricity, "green" fuel at all? By the way, at the expense of steam and electricity ... the start of the internal combustion engine, electric vehicles and steam engines began almost at the same time.
            And they drove into our heads that the same steam is an anachronism. You google the topic of steam technology, very surprised.
            1. +11
              14 May 2020 11: 02
              Can you suggest another Vika to read?
              I don’t know how you are in ... it seems, as for me, OIL is a source of energy, electricity, steam, THIS PRODUCT is obtained as a result of using a primary source of energy ....
              About green fuel .... it is a source of energy, but it is small and expensive, a PR project, nothing more. The economic value is zero integers, figs tenths.
              Steam is used in the process of generating electricity, for heating and ... where it is profitable, efficient, justified! For direct conversion to mechanical action ... is not rational.
            2. +2
              14 May 2020 13: 42
              Quote: NEXUS
              And steam, electricity, "green" fuel at all?

              Of course, that is not clear. Why rack their brains if the electricity is extracted from a power outlet, steam from a boiler pipe, and milk is supplied not by cows, but by supermarkets, and already in tetrapacks. laughing
            3. 0
              14 May 2020 16: 10
              Quote: NEXUS
              steam, electricity, "green" fuel at all?

              No way - the first is not everywhere, electricity - if you are talking about electric cars - it’s expensive and it’s another task to dispose of batteries, but biofuel is too expensive ...
        2. +5
          14 May 2020 11: 15
          Quote: NEXUS
          For example, finally seriously engage in alternative energy sources.

          Moreover, we are the world leader in the field of nuclear energy ... So there is no need to come up with much "alternative sources" either ...
        3. 0
          14 May 2020 18: 58
          Something I did not notice such an understanding in the late Russian Empire. And I don't notice our current "defective" managers ..
          Somehow they sharply lose in effectiveness among people who acted in the USSR in the 40s and 60s of the last century.
      2. +2
        14 May 2020 10: 31
        like that - bring camels !!! Hello my friend, hi Long time no see!
        1. -1
          14 May 2020 10: 41
          Quote: novel xnumx
          like that - bring camels !!! Hello my friend, hi Long time no see!

          Greetings Roma hi ! And where to get so many camels? request Send Sechin with Novak - take them (camels) from the Saudis ??? belay
          1. +5
            14 May 2020 10: 43
            well, or take away the Saudis from camels, and let them master the permafrost, there is oil too lol
          2. -1
            14 May 2020 15: 05
            Quote: Hunter 2

            Greetings Roma hi ! And where to get so many camels? request Send Sechin with Novak - take them (camels) from the Saudis ??? belay

            I am glad to see bored retirees, demobilized reservists and caring graduates of military departments on the forum! hi
            Better to have camels and pay girls to keep animals fellow
      3. 0
        14 May 2020 12: 34
        Quote: Hunter 2
        With the Saudis, everything is clear - the oil will run out, jumped onto the camels and roam again.
        And to us, what to do with such an increase in industry? Well, at least the military-industrial complex is pulling something!

        they took sledges, harnessed the dogs and went along the taiga / tundra.
        In winter, living in an igloo is being built quickly, environmentally friendly and so on.
        :))
      4. -2
        14 May 2020 17: 48
        Quote: Hunter 2
        And to us, what to do with such an increase in industry? Well, at least the military-industrial complex is pulling something!

        Does the whole economy mean war? like the United States in the case of kipish (well, there is a great depression and other subsequent garbage ..? and cho, everyone will have work, both in the rear and at the front ...
    3. +1
      14 May 2020 10: 33
      Quote: Volodin
      But kings suddenly become very interested in the opinion of the people, if the doors of their palaces are knocked with butts.

      So there is no one to knock butts, in the case of a sheher the Bedouins will scatter in the desert - look for winds in ... the desert.
      1. +5
        14 May 2020 11: 00
        They will not return to their previous way of life. For the most part, urban residents. And the population is already so large that nomadic camel husbandry will feed a small part of the population.
        1. +1
          14 May 2020 13: 50
          Quote: Sergej1972
          They will not return to their previous lifestyle

          Something I have for them head as it does not hurt much. I even want to play a bit. The Saudis thought they were the smartest, they were on oil and it will be like this forever. Realizing their own "greatness", they quarreled with all the neighbors. That's just in their wealth, their own merit is zero. Everything in this world is temporary, has come quickly, will quickly go away. Some people now have to work, but they are not accustomed to this. And genetically.
    4. +5
      14 May 2020 10: 36
      The course of the Western press on information pressure in relation to Saudi Arabia is traced
      Down with the king! "Proletarians" of all countries unite! It would be interesting to look at the results of the "color revolution" inspired by the West. Whose heads will eventually fall under the executioner's sword? Really monarchs? For some reason, great doubts prevail.
      1. +1
        14 May 2020 12: 00
        But who cares about royal heads when such a tidbit of foreign oil is at stake. They will democratize by the most for nothing. Nothing personal, it's only business.
    5. +3
      14 May 2020 10: 36
      And if earlier in Saudi Arabia the prices for natural gas, gasoline, desalinated water were “ridiculous” (by the standards of income of subjects)
      There is nothing permanent in the World, everything changes once, and the Saudis are no exception. We lived richly - now let them try to live differently.
    6. +3
      14 May 2020 10: 36
      He listened to the opinion of an expert, from ours, he argued that the Saudis have many opportunities for financial maneuvers and they .... will withstand a difficult period without serious disasters within the country ??? Maybe he studied, relied on knowledge of the previous monarch? Because the current ..... okay, let's look at the results, without guessing, premature conclusions.
      1. +3
        14 May 2020 11: 01
        One gets the feeling that there is no longer ruled by the current king, but his crown prince. Which, incidentally, has an official deputy.
        1. 0
          14 May 2020 11: 14
          Yes, the prince turned around there, playing tricks with might and main! For anyone who and how is there, these are their internal affairs, they themselves must break ... but outside they also played tricks not childishly! External players can also show "concern".
          1. -2
            14 May 2020 17: 50
            Quote: rocket757
            Wow, the prince turned there, swagger with might and main!

            well ... ours is not a prince, but he is foolish ...
            1. 0
              14 May 2020 18: 23
              We ourselves have chosen, and we will .....
              1. 0
                14 May 2020 19: 09
                Quote: rocket757
                We ourselves have chosen, and we will .....

                or we or us.
                1. +1
                  14 May 2020 20: 21
                  In the West, write about the "new" Saudi Arabia

                  Called the Saudi Crash? winked
                2. 0
                  14 May 2020 21: 40
                  Us, of course, all of us! Until we all put our brains together and decide, finally, that the country is WE ......
    7. 0
      14 May 2020 10: 54
      Any country that has a commodity economy should understand that today it is a KSA, and tomorrow Venezuela .. especially if it builds a lot of itself ..
      1. +1
        14 May 2020 19: 12
        Quote: 2 level advisor
        Any country that has a commodity economy should understand that today it is a KSA, and tomorrow Venezuela .. especially if it builds a lot of itself ..

        about us ...? well, yes, so ...
    8. +2
      14 May 2020 11: 00
      Nuuu, apparently the Saudi royal boshkoruba work will increase fellow
    9. -6
      14 May 2020 11: 09
      In the West, they write about the "new" Saudi Arabia - with increasing dissatisfaction with the king’s policies

      In "new" Russia, there is also an increase in dissatisfaction with the tsar's policies.

      Saudi Arabia itself is to blame for the crisis that is now plaguing its economy.

      Russia, too, is to blame for the crisis that is now plaguing its economy.

      We are talking about the decision of the Saudi monarchy to revise tax legislation in the direction of raising tax rates. VAT increased from 5 percent to 15.


      In Russia, VAT has long been raised from 18 to 20 ..

      prices for natural gas, gasoline, desalinated water, now they are rushing to the global average.


      In Russia, gas has long been more expensive, in many surrounding states ..

      subjects now publish portraits of King Abdullah, the predecessor of the current monarch Salman, on Twitter and other social networks.


      In Russia, portraits of Stalin have been published for a long time ..

      It is noted that this is "a signal to the current monarch that his predecessor cared for the people of the country more and better."

      Abstracting in the Russian Federation and Stalin-it is difficult not to agree

      That is, there is an increase in dissatisfaction with the king’s policies.


      We have a king ..

      people in the country want change for the better, but for now in Saudi Arabia everything is going to deepen differentiation.


      And again - similarly ..

      As you can see, there are not so many differences between us ..

      Is it possible that while our pensioners drag bucket on the hump for watering and seedling seedlings, so that in the summer there was something to stand for days on the market, the Saudis, at this time, are puzzled how much gasoline can now be poured into a roll-royce ..
      If you do not pay attention to such trifles, I think what is happening can safely be called our grandfather ..
      1. -2
        14 May 2020 19: 13
        Quote: Roman123567
        If you do not pay attention to such trifles, I think what is happening can safely be called our grandfather ..

        stand up ..
    10. -1
      14 May 2020 11: 21
      Yes !!! apparently, their allies are preparing for the “dermocrisation” of the Saudis,
      And the oil-dollar paradise that our pro-Western liberals love to set as an example when comparing living standards
      1. -1
        14 May 2020 19: 14
        Quote: vavilon
        Yes !!! apparently, their allies are preparing for the “dermocrisation” of the Saudis,

        and that would be nice, in a strategic plan.
    11. -1
      14 May 2020 11: 31
      Give the orange revolution? feel tongue
    12. +1
      14 May 2020 11: 39
      in the meantime, in Saudi Arabia, everything is going to deepen differentiation.

    13. 0
      14 May 2020 11: 40
      They need a mess, and on such a scale that they would move from Maybach to camels.
      1. 0
        14 May 2020 19: 15
        Quote: kriten
        They need a mess, and on such a scale that they would move from Maybach to camels.

        camels, also among the rich ...
    14. 0
      14 May 2020 11: 48
      For a long time there had to be a proletarian revolution and the overthrow of the medieval anachronism - the monarchy!
      1. +3
        14 May 2020 12: 01
        Quote: bars1
        For a long time there had to be a proletarian revolution and the overthrow of the medieval anachronism - the monarchy!

        It doesn’t work out .. It takes the Monarch and resets to zero .. and that's it .. the whole revolution is empty wassat
      2. 0
        14 May 2020 19: 19
        Quote: bars1
        For a long time there had to be a proletarian revolution and the overthrow of the medieval anachronism - the monarchy!

        Grandfather Lenin, rested prematurely, and it would have been possible, the World Revolution, and would have freed all the oppressed, and ...
    15. -1
      14 May 2020 11: 55
      Well that's it, kirdyk to the Arabian kingdom. If all sorts of IMF and Forbes began to count money in the pocket of another state, then wait for color revolutions, and even democratic bombing. Looks like the monarchy has delayed the payment of another tribute to world money lenders. Now moneylenders from the monarchs and their subjects last tear off, in a place with leather.
      1. +1
        14 May 2020 19: 22
        Quote: Rusticolus
        Well that's it, kirdyk to the Arabian kingdom.
        Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
        and lived before us, and will survive us ...
    16. 0
      14 May 2020 12: 31
      It is stated that people in the country want a change for the better

      Yes Yes. Fear your desires, for they can come true. The desire to "flood" the world with cheap oil has come true ...
      1. -4
        14 May 2020 13: 52
        Anyone who wanted this is unlikely to be very upset now ..
        And such as Salman or Putin, cheap oil only dreamed in terrible dreams ..
        Actually, the mantra alone that "The world economy will collapse if the oil price remains at $ 80" says a lot.
      2. -1
        14 May 2020 19: 24
        Quote: Vasyan1971
        It is stated that people in the country want a change for the better

        Yes Yes. Fear your desires, for they can come true. The desire to "flood" the world with cheap oil has come true ...

        But the truth ... I remember this. dumped into the ocean.
    17. +1
      14 May 2020 17: 49
      The policy of the king has deteriorated, bring another king?))
      Sounds familiar ...

      In general, this crisis is indicative for the Saudis - this means that they can do nothing but sell their resources.
      1. -2
        14 May 2020 19: 24
        Quote: Lord of the Sith
        means that they can do nothing but sell their resources.
        Reply

        somehow familiar ...
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    18. +1
      14 May 2020 18: 32
      Scribe! 60 years ago, these "kings" twisted their tails to camels in the desert ..
      And now everyone is looking at them - "what will they do ?!"
      Yes, what they are ordered from across the ocean will do!
      They are the same "kings" as a stray cat - "king" in the nearest garbage dump ..
      Tailed camels ..
      No science! No production! Not your own education! Religion - and that reception!
      80 years ago - the feudal tribal system!
      Now - like "kingdom"!
      As brains and concepts were the "dark" Middle Ages, they have remained. Dough they were only allowed to have enough for the fun of pride - and that's it!

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