That can change at the flick of a hat especially with Saudi Arabia’s moves recently.
Qatar and Saudi-Arabia don't have a very good relationship, depsite being similar, slave-labor-reliant absolute monarchies. The Saudi's closed the border with Qatar for a while, leading to significant problems for them.
That being said: Qatar's relationship with the US won't change. It holds the largest US military base in the Middle-East, making it an essential asset for the US army. Which is why your so-called "anti-imperialist" defense of that slave-state is extra ironic.
You started with attacking a random person (not a politician, not someone with power, but a regular tourist) who made a very mild critique of the abhorent treatment of LGBT-people in a slave-state. It looks a lot like obfuscating. For all intends and purpuses, you're defending them.
Second: Since when has the US cared about partnerships between foreign policy enemies?
That's correct in theory, but it won't happen in Qatar, given their vital function in the US imperial machine and their groveling behavior towards US foreign policy.
Nations will be forced to confront their own internal antagonisms regarding production and society and will only progress that way.
I certainly agree with that take, but that doesn't mean we should stop showing solidarity with repressed and exploited people in the Global South. The LGBT-community in a slave state like Qatar is helped by foreign press writing about their situation.
I’m for LGBTQ rights but dude, don’t fucking ally yourself with the CIA of all fucking people.
I'm not allying with the CIA, and I'm pretty sure the tourists wearing rainbow colors aren't either. You're strawmanning.
BTW, it's hard to take your support for LGBT-rights seriously when you start of with the following quote “no, I don’t care about your so-called rights, fuck off.”.
Qatar and Saudi-Arabia don't have a very good relationship, depsite being similar, slave-labor-reliant absolute monarchies. The Saudi's closed the border with Qatar for a while, leading to significant problems for them.
That being said: Qatar's relationship with the US won't change. It holds the largest US military base in the Middle-East, making it an essential asset for the US army. Which is why your so-called "anti-imperialist" defense of that slave-state is extra ironic.
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You started with attacking a random person (not a politician, not someone with power, but a regular tourist) who made a very mild critique of the abhorent treatment of LGBT-people in a slave-state. It looks a lot like obfuscating. For all intends and purpuses, you're defending them.
That's correct in theory, but it won't happen in Qatar, given their vital function in the US imperial machine and their groveling behavior towards US foreign policy.
I certainly agree with that take, but that doesn't mean we should stop showing solidarity with repressed and exploited people in the Global South. The LGBT-community in a slave state like Qatar is helped by foreign press writing about their situation.
I'm not allying with the CIA, and I'm pretty sure the tourists wearing rainbow colors aren't either. You're strawmanning.
BTW, it's hard to take your support for LGBT-rights seriously when you start of with the following quote “no, I don’t care about your so-called rights, fuck off.”.
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Didn't realise that. That's also why I said it was a "defense" of Qatar. Apologies.
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I do stand by the fact that I think it's incorrect to invoke the "don't ally with the CIA"-argument in this context.
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