Part Three: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia
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What are the early influences on Mohammed bin Salman's rise to power?
Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, the podcast where we continue to talk about Mohammed bin Salman and the Saudi royal family with our guest, David Bell. Welcome back to the show, Dave. It's been a little while between our first and last recordings. Yeah. Between the first recording and this one. Have you been?
I got COVID. Not currently, but I got it. Yeah. I also, Robert, last night, I had a dream about you.
You had a dream about me? Say more. Upsetting.
Okay, so my dream was that we were taking a shower together in bathing suits. Hot. That's good.
That makes it TV appropriate.
Yep. Then I had to poop in the dream and left the shower.
Okay, Dave.
How did Mohammed bin Nayef's background shape his political career?
Dave. Where are we building to here?
This is the dream. This is the dream. And I went to the bathroom. Is it the dream?
Is it the dream? Is it the dream?
Yes, because when I woke up, I didn't have to poop in real life. So I was like, oh, thank God.
That wasn't like. It's just a dream.
Yeah. I had to poop in the dream. So I left the shower and Alex Schmitty was in the bathroom.
Our other old roommate.
Making coffee in the bathroom.
And that was the dream. Classic bathroom coffee.
I should have started with the fact that I have terrible dreams.
What role did the U.S. play in Saudi Arabia's internal power struggles?
And that was the dream.
That doesn't sound like a good one.
It wasn't bad. It was fine.
I don't know that I'd call that fine. Well, Dave, thank you for telling the audience about your upsetting dream. I'm sure no one's going to be weird about it among our listener base. People who are going to react normally to your shower story.
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How did the war in Yemen impact Saudi Arabia's political landscape?
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who me the saudi royal family you know because they're all they're basically aside from the billions and billions of dollars in oil money and the fact that they don't have to work and the fact that an entire country are basically slaves to them you know they're just down-to-earth regular guys like tim the tool man taylor from the show that maybe 20 of our audience remembers
Yeah, the guy, the criminal guy, Tim Allen.
Yeah, Tim Allen, a simple everyman who runs a television show out of his house. Anyway, so one of the few, as we've stated, most of the young princes are not super productive individuals, right? They're mostly spending their time kissing ass to try and get a better cut of the family fortune. Doing as little as possible and grafting off of like the money that should be going to support the Saudi state. There's a few exceptions to this rule, right? Mohammed bin Salman, the subject of our episodes, is one. His father, the soon-to-be King Salman, is another. And another one of the exceptions to this rule was Mohammed bin Nayef.
What strategies did MBS employ to consolidate power?
Born in Jeddah at the end of August 1959, he had more than a quarter century on his younger cousin. His father was Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz, full son of the great King Abdulaziz and a full brother of two other kings, Fad and the new King Salman.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the early influences on Mohammed bin Salman's rise to power?
0:05–0:49
2
How did Mohammed bin Nayef's background shape his political career?
0:49–1:17
3
What role did the U.S. play in Saudi Arabia's internal power struggles?
1:17–2:20
4
How did the war in Yemen impact Saudi Arabia's political landscape?
2:20–4:12
5
What strategies did MBS employ to consolidate power?
4:12–5:44
6
How did the Yemen conflict evolve into a humanitarian crisis?
5:44–6:54
7
What were the consequences of Saudi Arabia's military actions in Yemen?
6:54–7:59
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How did Mohammed bin Salman’s decisions affect his relationship with the U.S.?
7:59–1:10:26