Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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No, I am, frankly speaking, I am very much supporting what Trump does here. To talk to his adversaries, I think it's a plus. I mean, now we hear that Trump is going to open communication with Putin on Ukraine. I think I'm for it, frankly speaking. You know, unless you engage, how can you reach a conclusion agreement or arrangement? I'm for it, frankly.
I think that's very bold from him to meet the leader of North Korea. Yes. How would you describe Putin? Well, Putin is a very smart man and he calculates very well his moves. You know, he's a very smart guy. And clearly, one of the things he said, he feels sorry for the day that the Soviet Union disintegrated into all these 15 republics. So he has this empire mentality in him. It's in him.
It's in his mind, for sure. He still craves for the Soviet Union Empire and the Tsarist Empire that used to be there before the revolution happened in 1917.
Everyone wants an empire. Do you think China wants an empire? Look, China, I think, you know, they have 1.3 billion people. I think the first priority really is to control their domestic situation and have growth. Because look, China has a big problem. Look, you have a very open, capitalistic, economical system in China.
Yet, the political system is very centralized, authoritarian, and communist, obviously. Now, these two don't go well together. So the question now, until when these two could happen and continue? China is very concerned about this internal situation, obviously. And they want to have this growth happening to really, to have these people migrate from being the poor level to being middle class. Yes.
I think that's the main worry, frankly, is being Russia for foreseeable future.
Which is fine. Which is fine. Look, look, we, you know, we talk fairly free and openly. Look, Saudi Arabia has legitimacy. And I, you know, I just said in one interview a few weeks ago, look at the six monarchies in the Arab world. Yes. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Oman, Kuwait. These six monarchies. Add to them Morocco. Add to it Jordan. These are eight monarchies.
Look how, I'm not saying great, how good they're doing, how stable they are. That is true. How legitimate they are. Look at Jordan. Look at the neighborhood of Jordan. Around Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Israel, and Hamas. And look how stable it is right now. Clearly, it's still a very difficult situation there. Eight monarchies, compare them with the other 14 republics.
In the Arab world, there are 22, obviously. There's no comparison between them. So we have legitimacy here when the monarchies are headed by Saudi Arabia and other seven countries.
If you go to the public here, And rate Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Yeah. He will get 70 to 80 percent, if not 90 percent approval rating. I think that's true. To be honest with you. Yeah, I believe that. And this says it all, frankly speaking. People would like to get stability, wants continuity, wants to be sure that the economy is doing well.
People are fed up from all these wars and all these turmoils. And they see what's happening to their neighborhood. We've seen what's happening in, for example, our Gulf region, Saudi Arabia. We see what's happening in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen. We don't want all that. We don't want all that. So really, frankly speaking, we are a very happy country here.
All the Saudis are very happy with what's going on. Crown Prince is very popular. King Salman is beloved by everybody here. So frankly speaking, forget the elections. We're happy. We're okay.
We have seen what happened to the so-called Bush democracy in Iraq. We have seen what happened there, that how could this whole thing collapse completely. You know, Iraq is a republic, correct? And we had the elections there and we see the results. We don't want that confusion, chaos. Look, we have monarchies. We're happy with them. People are happy.
That's what counts for us, to be honest with you. With all respect to Americans, with all respect to Tucker Carlson, my friend, you know, we're happy with our systems and we're going to continue with it.
Well, crypto, you know, is a new system, you know, of a currency system that, you know, I don't buy, frankly speaking. I don't know. We're not investing in crypto at all. And I don't think it's for us at all. But it's there. It's facts right now. It's a huge part of the fastest growing sectors of the American economy. But still, you know, I'm not a believer in that at all. Why?
I'm not an investor in crypto. You know, I just, it's not regulated well. It is, you know, many U.S. big businessmen do agree with me on that subject. You know, I don't understand it very well. And it is new form of currency that is really, is very confusing for me and complicated. And I don't understand it.
Yeah.
We have so many other investments. The world has full investments and better investments to invest in. And we never invested in crypto. And we're never going to invest in crypto. You're never going to invest in crypto. Nope. Then why are the, I mean, the banks, big banks in the United States, all your friends, they're all in crypto. They are forced to. I mean, even J.P.
Morgan that never believed in that. Now they're forced to. Sometimes you have facts that you have to go with, but, you know, not necessarily with full conviction, but they are forced to go with it, unfortunately. Why are they forced? Well, look, many other banks are doing it. So they are forced for the clients. So many, many clients believe in crypto. Many clients in the world believe in crypto.
And so they have to reflect the needs and the wishes of their own clients. So they go with it reluctantly.
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