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The Saudis have a very interesting and militant view of the future and the past.
They are deeply invested in visual propaganda that may be more appealing to the young prince than the general public.
The rich fellow who spend a few weeks in the Ritz Carlton has over 10 million followers. twitter.com/Alwaleed_Talal. Salafist scholar Mohamad al-Arefe has more. You know that guy who advised you to beat your uppity wife with a toothbrush. @MohamadAlarefe Social media has influence.
#1 KSA Social media account...with a bullet (ISIS tried to kill him in 2016) is Dr Aid al-Qarni @Dr_alqarnee the author of "Don't Be Sad". On the U.S. no fly list. He has the top Saudi Twitter account. He just posted this militant view of KSA.
Why does this matter? The largest manufactured social media mentions of Haftar's violent assault in Libya are currently coming from twitter accounts in Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt. They are proxy aggressors against the UN, EU and global interests.
This glossy fictional view of the world is exactly why the gritty "real world" reality show of ISIS has impact on the disaffected in Yemen, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, the Phillipines, Somalia and more.
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