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The Rise and Fall of the King of Saudi Arabia
MBS wants to show that there's a new sheriff in town and that that old system is no longer going to function. So he has this arrest of hundreds of people, many of them princes. And here in the West, everyone saw this as a shakedown for MBS to benefit personally from the money. I think it was two things: One was to destroy that older system of corruption and perhaps create a new one with him at the center centralized.