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Conor McGregor’s dubious message welcomed with open arms in pro-Trump America
Former UFC fighter was a darling of the American right long before he began spewing bile about migrants in Ireland
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Conor McGregor's recent inflammatory rhetoric about migrants in Ireland has intensified the love affair between himself and the conservative media industrial complex in the USA. Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty Images
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Dave Hannigan
Wed Dec 20 2023 - 18:23
Conor McGregor was interviewed by Sean Hannity on Fox News Channel last March. With nine months still remaining on the calendar, the host that night clinched the prize for most unctuous television interview of the year.
Evincing pandering skills finely honed over a decade massaging the fragile ego and febrile temper of Donald Trump, Hannity slathered and slobbered all over his gurning guest, coating him in a glaze of idolatry normally reserved for the former president or his scions. They are regulars on a show regarded as the official television wing of the last administration.
Ostensibly there to promote his rot-gut whiskey by making a $1m corporate donation to a worthy charity called Tunnel to Towers, McGregor received a journalistic sponge-bath that left him spotless, giving the impression he’s just a lovable rogue with a brogue. An Irish charmer with a glint in his eye. Not somebody who has attracted serious attention from police forces in three different countries for disturbing reasons.
Being a wannabe martial artist himself, Hannity was even more sycophantic than usual during this lengthy infomercial for the Dubliner’s business interests. They even laughed off him dropping an f-bomb, the type of offence that normally has the Christian zealots clutching pearls.
Rewatching that clip now involves wading through treacly smarm but it’s worth the effort to remember sportswashing comes in all shapes and sizes and that McGregor was the darling of the American right long before he began spewing bile about migrants in Ireland.
Of course, his recent inflammatory rhetoric on that issue has intensified the love affair between himself and the conservative media industrial complex in these parts. No more stirring tunes than the well-worn anti-migrant standards to get those fellas throwing supportive shapes.
Sean Hannity with Conor McGregor at Fox News Channel Studios last March. McGregor received a journalistic sponge-bath that left him spotless. Photograph: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images
After several positive articles about his newfound politics, the New York Post, the newspaper arm of Fox News, last week ran a piece by a Dublin-based journalist about McGregor’s presidential ambitions and how he is giving ‘Ireland’s anti-migrant voters a voice’. Since nobody has heard a peep from that constituency before.
There has been equally enthusiastic coverage of his capering all over conservative outlets. Outkick, a website owned by Fox (anybody seeing a pattern here?) that offers a peculiarly right-wing take on sports, has been delighted by McGregor espousing political views that align with their own.
The Daily Wire, an even more extremist outfit regularly cited for hate speech and bigotry, was excited enough by events in Dublin to ask, ‘Can Conor McGregor save Ireland?’
Ben Shapiro, host of that site’s flagship talkshow and far right bloviator supreme, performed a solemn read out of several McGregor tweets, as if they were Churchillian pronouncements to beleaguered London residents during the Blitz. Or even social media missives from the demented Maharaja of Mar-a-Lago. That’s how seriously these people take the former UFC champ.
“Phenomenal President,” tweeted McGregor about Trump in January 2020. “Quite possibly the USA GOAT. Most certainly one of them anyway, as he sits atop the shoulders of many amazing giants that came before him. No easy feet (sic). Early stages of term also. Incredible…”
A poorly spelt paean, it almost led to him being asked by the Trump White House to front a campaign promoting masking during the pandemic. That he would be even considered for such a role is down to UFC being beloved of the Trumpers.
In the same way they regard soccer as suspicious, effete, and, worst of all, European, the base antics and classless carry-on of caged warriors in a sport with scarcely any rules fulfils all these people’s alpha fantasies, appealing to their desperate need to always reek of machismo. See also the obsession with gun play.
Former president Donald Trump watches a flyweight title fight between Brandon Royval and Alexandre Pantoja last week during the UFC 296 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photograph: Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images
This is why Trump turns up to UFC events so often. He knows it is the one place outside of campaign rallies where he will receive unbridled adulation and unswerving adoration. Dilettantes who believe punching somebody prone on a canvas in the head is “human chess” are fully paid-up members of his tribe, devotees of his cult.
Witness his arrival at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas last Saturday night, the raucous acclaim of a Roman emperor entering the Coliseum to watch his favourite gladiator, Colby Covington, one of the most reprehensible characters in American sport. Some boast that.
The credulous demographic which prostrates itself at Trump’s feet also believe McGregor is equal parts warrior and straight-talking philosopher and, so, has no problem envisaging him pivoting to politics.
The worry for Ireland is a template now exists showing how anybody with serious money, media savvy, and a knack for canny scapegoating can make a serious impact. And the early signs are that this is far more organised than the usual ranting and raving of a man forever trying to create headlines to flog pints of his execrable stout.
Soon after the liquor salesman tweeted about being at war, an image popped up on social media of him brandishing a machine gun, backgrounded by an army of lads ready for combat on an Irish street.
It is eerily similar to ludicrous flags that flutter across America showing the face of Trump, who famously dodged the Vietnam draft five times claiming bone spurs, superimposed onto the ripped body of John Rambo.
Neither of these charlatans ever served their countries. But that scarcely matters. The gullible are as susceptible to mythology as they are to demagoguery. Everything McGregor has achieved to date offers proof of that.
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Paper can't refuse ink ..... ::sleep
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Paper can't refuse ink ..... ::sleep
Watched it, cringeworthy, and that was just Hannity. Yer losing cred with that avatar Octy.
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Paper can't refuse ink ..... ::sleep
Watched it, cringeworthy, and that was just Hannity. Yer losing cred with that avatar Octy.
It's a very very serious situation for any country Bob wen any countries media is state appointed
An controlled by any government.....
I expect sum spurious made up case to be taken against mcgregor soon .....wen that happens
It'll confirm the fact that yu are in a dictatorship....driven by corruption an foreign money an an anti irish so called teeshock an his bum buddies who hate all things irish , heterosexual an christian ....
Yous irish ::fds
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Paper can't refuse ink ..... ::sleep
Watched it, cringeworthy, and that was just Hannity. Yer losing cred with that avatar Octy.
It's a very very serious situation for any country Bob wen any countries media is state appointed
An controlled by any government.....
I expect sum spurious made up case to be taken against mcgregor soon .....wen that happens
It'll confirm the fact that yu are in a dictatorship....driven by corruption an foreign money an an anti irish so called teeshock an his bum buddies who hate all things irish , heterosexual an christian ....
Yous irish ::fds
A bit like this video of gurning, cheek chewing, nose wiping McGregor being accused of rape?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_424ZBIKFY8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_424ZBIKFY8)
Or
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/conor-mcgregor-ufc-champion-timeline-arrests-abuse-1234772835/ (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/conor-mcgregor-ufc-champion-timeline-arrests-abuse-1234772835/)
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Wat a hero ....gettin allegations trown at him left rite an center ....an never goin to jail rofl
Yur a typical "yous irish " bullits ....ya mock yur neighbours as beneath ya .....an wen one them succeed in life.... yur full o resentment jealousy an searching for dirt .....
It's sad really ::sleep
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Fair fuks to ya conor lol
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A licensed martial arts competitor hitting members of the public, shows real class, and professionalism, makes some proud to be Irish, however, happily we have another licensed fighter who does us proud wherever she goes.
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I hate when I'm abroad and someone asks where I'm from, Ireland , "ah mcgregor is from Ireland" yes unfortunately he is I say, then I inform them that the majority of Irish people dislike him now.
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It's yissers inferiority complexes .....bono got lambasted aswell ....yis hate youser neighbours makin millions an yuos drivin a taxi workin for buttons ....
Poor owl sinned o Connor got ridiculed aswell .....it even goes as far back as brendan behan ....an the heros o the rising spat opon ...........an even poor owl shane McGowan got fuked out of it as a drunk an an embarrassment unill yis wer told by world geniuses he was a genius
An yisser great at calllin them great wen they snuff it
Yuos irish ::fds
Go on conor ya genius...don't be mindin them lol
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It's yissers inferiority complexes .....bono got lambasted aswell ....yis hate youser neighbours makin millions an yuos drivin a taxi workin for buttons ....
Poor owl sinned o Connor got ridiculed aswell .....it even goes as far back as brendan behan ....an the heros o the rising spat opon ...........an even poor owl shane McGowan got fuked out of it as a drunk an an embarrassment unill yis wer told by world geniuses he was a genius
An yisser great at calllin them great wen they snuff it
Yuos irish ::fds
Go on conor ya genius...don't be mindin them lol
The kind of genius who has to have his name tattooed on his belly in case he overdoes it on the Coke again, and the first responders need a name.
Did I mention I strongly dislike Brendan O'Carroll too?
Despite you're constant homophobic references, I believe you'll settle down with Mrs. Brown's boys on Xmas night! 8)
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It's yissers inferiority complexes .....bono got lambasted aswell ....yis hate youser neighbours makin millions an yuos drivin a taxi workin for buttons ....
Poor owl sinned o Connor got ridiculed aswell .....it even goes as far back as brendan behan ....an the heros o the rising spat opon ...........an even poor owl shane McGowan got fuked out of it as a drunk an an embarrassment unill yis wer told by world geniuses he was a genius
An yisser great at calllin them great wen they snuff it
Yuos irish ::fds
Go on conor ya genius...don't be mindin them lol
The kind of genius who has to have his name tattooed on his belly in case he overdoes it on the Coke again, and the first responders need a name.
Did I mention I strongly dislike Brendan O'Carroll too?
Despite you're constant homophobic references, I believe you'll settle down with Mrs. Brown's boys on Xmas night! 8)
Yur as easy to wind up as belker bullits .....yis are very similar ....tho yu are obviously more intelligent....but
Ya need to examine yur hatred of yur own kind " constant references " ......as regards ocarroll....he's a fraud ....nauseously unfunny ....an ide rather self harm than watch antin he's in ....
I went to see the cunt in the olympia 30 yers ago an i walked out after 10 minutes... .....yous irish wer all laffin an ill never forget the drain of me bean bean on so close a proximity to such a negative force ....the ape is toxic beyond extraordinary
Yu can do better than that " I hope " than to reference him as an example of wat I find
entertainin....
I and you are " taxi drivers bullits ..yur a real one ...i jus fell into it sort o ting but its a great pastime an highly recommended to anti socials like me an you ...but thats wer the similarly ends ....yu an I hear the word on the street ....an yu can't deny that the feelin on the ground is that this country is bean forced inta policies that are not the will of the people .......thers an undercurrent an vocalisation of opposition to wats happening to ireland an for the most part the peoples wishes have bean oppressed thus far .....but tings are changing .....even the government seems to be acknowledgin it even jus this week ....most have bean afraid to express ther discontent....
Primarily because of government appointed media Pressures an forced restriction on free speech for fear of bean labled " far rite " or criminally culpable jus by speaking out ......
But these events recently of riots and hotel burnings shud not go without notice to those in position of authority......ther happening for a reason .....
This government will not survive the next election that is absolutely a given fact ......is ther an alternative? No ther isnt .....this is why this country is in the process of change never seen before....all which I predicted yers ago ...
The government has reacted to recent events very urgently....they are acknowledging the growing disent ....not because they give a fuk wat the population thinks ....but because they know that they have to gain votes .....
Mcgregor is flawed ....so are yu ....an even a genius like meslf isn't perfect .....not far off .,..but Mcgregor is the only one I can see that has spoken out about this open door policy to alleged asylum seekers that verooka is promoting wit unusual an alarmin vigour ...wat motivates verooka to take such a stance that turns farmers to turn to arson an civil disobedience?
Wat is motivating mother's to protest in East Wall an other areas?
Are they " right wing nazis " ? I don't tink so atall atall ....
I tink " right wing " is just.a weapon of language to suppress the wishes an concerns of the population....
Irish people are the most accommodatin , non racist , charitable people on earth .....but I tink they are bean taken advantage of by a government that has other agendas on its mind that serves a very small minority...
The only one who is vocalising that fact is conor Mcgregor.....
Ther are others starting to say " enough is enough "
If things don't change very soon ...then ther will be more opposition , conflict an accelerated political change .....its happening all acccross Europe....
If the government continues to go against the wishes of the population....then finally we may see the end to the monopoly of ff an fg who have failed miserably for yers ....
I'm excited at the prospect of a new era
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My mother and her sister walked out of an O Carroll gig years ago as well, said he was I disgrace, a dirty little perv. Mrs browns boys is the biggest load of shite ever produced and anyone who finds it funny has no brain.
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My mother and her sister walked out of an O Carroll gig years ago as well, said he was I disgrace, a dirty little perv. Mrs browns boys is the biggest load of shite ever produced and anyone who finds it funny has no brain.
I got tickets for "https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/grandad-s-sure-lilly-s-still-alive-1.86910 just after I met Mrs. Bullet [ An Am/Dram director and actress]. It was on in the Gaiety. I went because my brother had put on The Course in Boston as a bit of a money spinner.
We walked out shortly after halftime and propped up the bar in the Clarendon Inn. People nervously laughed because he said shite or fuck. The only play I've ever walked out on.
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My mother and her sister walked out of an O Carroll gig years ago as well, said he was I disgrace, a dirty little perv. Mrs browns boys is the biggest load of shite ever produced and anyone who finds it funny has no brain.
I got tickets for "https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/grandad-s-sure-lilly-s-still-alive-1.86910 just after I met Mrs. Bullet [ An Am/Dram director and actress]. It was on in the Gaiety. I went because my brother had put on The Course in Boston as a bit of a money spinner.
We walked out shortly after halftime and propped up the bar in the Clarendon Inn. People nervously laughed because he said shite or fuck. The only play I've ever walked out on.
I bet he gave ye abuse for walking out? he seems like he would be very bitter about something like that. I have always said a 10 year old kid could write a better sitcom than mrs browns boys.
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My mother and her sister walked out of an O Carroll gig years ago as well, said he was I disgrace, a dirty little perv. Mrs browns boys is the biggest load of shite ever produced and anyone who finds it funny has no brain.
I got tickets for "https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/grandad-s-sure-lilly-s-still-alive-1.86910 just after I met Mrs. Bullet [ An Am/Dram director and actress]. It was on in the Gaiety. I went because my brother had put on The Course in Boston as a bit of a money spinner.
We walked out shortly after halftime and propped up the bar in the Clarendon Inn. People nervously laughed because he said shite or fuck. The only play I've ever walked out on.
I bet he gave ye abuse for walking out? he seems like he would be very bitter about something like that. I have always said a 10 year old kid could write a better sitcom than mrs browns boys.
The ultimate one joke sitcom,laugh?,I thought I'd never start...
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My mother and her sister walked out of an O Carroll gig years ago as well, said he was I disgrace, a dirty little perv. Mrs browns boys is the biggest load of shite ever produced and anyone who finds it funny has no brain.
I got tickets for "https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/grandad-s-sure-lilly-s-still-alive-1.86910 just after I met Mrs. Bullet [ An Am/Dram director and actress]. It was on in the Gaiety. I went because my brother had put on The Course in Boston as a bit of a money spinner.
We walked out shortly after halftime and propped up the bar in the Clarendon Inn. People nervously laughed because he said shite or fuck. The only play I've ever walked out on.
I bet he gave ye abuse for walking out? he seems like he would be very bitter about something like that. I have always said a 10 year old kid could write a better sitcom than mrs browns boys.
The ultimate one joke sitcom,laugh?,I thought I'd never start...
The gummy Finglas f**k was too busy ogling Jenny Gibney, who he ended up riding instead of his wife.
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Ah!, doesn't your heart just swell with Irish pride?
https://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/conor-mcgregor-not-short-on-chat-for-cristiano-ronaldo-ringside-at-joshua-v-wallin-1568498.html (https://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/conor-mcgregor-not-short-on-chat-for-cristiano-ronaldo-ringside-at-joshua-v-wallin-1568498.html)
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Ah!, doesn't your heart just swell with Irish pride?
https://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/conor-mcgregor-not-short-on-chat-for-cristiano-ronaldo-ringside-at-joshua-v-wallin-1568498.html (https://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/conor-mcgregor-not-short-on-chat-for-cristiano-ronaldo-ringside-at-joshua-v-wallin-1568498.html)
I like that Ronaldo was trying to make himself invisible.
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Ah!, doesn't your heart just swell with Irish pride?
https://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/conor-mcgregor-not-short-on-chat-for-cristiano-ronaldo-ringside-at-joshua-v-wallin-1568498.html (https://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/conor-mcgregor-not-short-on-chat-for-cristiano-ronaldo-ringside-at-joshua-v-wallin-1568498.html)
Saudi Arabia Really Wants You to Think It’s Cool
The desert kingdom’s rebranding project goes way beyond sportswashing. But it’s all a little too contrived.
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Steven A. Cook
By Steven A. Cook, a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023, 6:00 AM
The story about Saudi Arabia investing heavily in international sports to launder its public image—a practice known as “sportswashing”—never seems to get old. Just as it was beginning to ebb, the country’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) announced the acquisition of a $100 million stake in the U.S.-based mixed martial arts (MMA) Professional Fighters League. Though unlikely to cause as much of a stir as the announcement that Saudi-owned LIV Golf was partnering with the Professional Golf Association, the move nevertheless suggests that Riyadh will not be deterred in expanding its portfolio of sports properties.
In addition to its foray into golf and now MMA, the PIF owns Newcastle United of the English Premier League, and there is some talk of a major investment in tennis. The Saudis have also made headlines by signing some of the biggest names in international soccer to play in the kingdom’s fourth-rate (at best) professional league. In addition to Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar Jr., and Karim Benzema—who have signed combined contracts worth nearly $600 million—there are at least another two dozen other footballers who have departed more prestigious leagues to play in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia’s investment in international sports has exposed the country’s leadership to charges from activists, journalists, analysts, and U.S. politicians of all stripes that the Saudis are using golf, soccer, and now MMA to obscure their human rights record and other unsavory aspects of the country’s political system.
But if that was the goal, it has not worked. The best evidence of this failure is the bevy of stories about how the Saudis are sportswashing that repeat in detail the transgressions of Saudi Arabia’s rulers, especially Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. With nearly every announcement of the PIF’s investment in a league, purchase of a team, or revelation of enormous contracts for soccer stars, the details of Saudi Arabia’s human rights abuses are repeated—atrocities such as the butchering of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as well as more recent outrages such as the alleged mass killing of Ethiopian migrants along the Saudi-Yemeni border and the death sentence handed down to a 54-year-old retired teacher named Mohammed al-Ghamdi for reposting criticisms of the crown prince on X—where Ghamdi has a meager total of 10 followers across two accounts—and YouTube.
The Saudis may be sportswashing—though any country that hosts an international competition of some sort can be accused of the same—but the charge misses the Saudi leadership’s larger goal: to convince the world that Saudi Arabia is not just the world’s largest gas station, but that it is also an important player in a variety of other fields, including finance, high-tech, geopolitics, the arts, entertainment, and yes, sports. Sport itself is not the point—it’s merely a loss leader in a much more elaborate national branding campaign.
This is how LIV Golf, Newcastle United, and other sports investments intersect with the much-discussed but rarely read Vision 2030, which is both a road map and a marketing deck (more the latter) for Mohammed bin Salman’s ambitious economic and social reform project. Along with sports, Vision 2030 commits Saudi Arabia to investing in tourism and tech, among other things. Much of this is aimed at changing the narrative around Saudi Arabia from a country dominated by oil and religion to one that’s modern, progressive, and cutting edge—a “Cool Arabia,” if you will.
Saudi Arabia’s recent social reforms are more about earning international attention than improving the lives of its citizens at home.
Take one example: Just five years ago, the Saudi city of Al Ula—home to some of the world’s most magnificent ruins, including a UNESCO World Heritage Site—was a sleepy town whose treasures few had ever seen, and where there was no place for visitors to stay. Today, it boasts a variety of luxury accommodations that are attracting well-heeled tourists and conference-goers from all over the world.
In early 2023, the Saudis announced major investments from tech behemoths Microsoft, Oracle, and Huawei. And in August, the crown prince announced a $200 million initiative that will, in part, foster the commercial application of research and development being undertaken at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. It is uncertain whether the investment in tech will pan out, but the headlines create the perception that Saudi society is on the move; that the kingdom is bigger, bolder, and better than it was in the past.
And, of course, there is nothing cooler than Neom, the crown prince’s futuristic city emerging along Saudi Arabia’s northwest, which has no real reason for being other than the fact that Mohammed bin Salman dreamed it up (and apparently keeps changing his mind about, to the eternal frustration of his planners). When, not long after Neom was announced, a group of analysts asked Saudi officials from the PIF and Ministry of Investment what justified such an enormous investment, they gleefully mustered that the vision for the city was “cool.”
The Saudis have also invited major ballet companies to perform in Jeddah; hosted one of the world’s largest raves; and screened Barbie, which was banned in neighboring Kuwait, Lebanon, and Algeria. (Of course, it is still Saudi Arabia. According to news reports, the rapper Iggy Azalea was forced to cut a late August set in Jeddah short because a “wardrobe malfunction” revealed a bare left leg, including her upper thigh.)
The quality of play on the LIV Golf tour was never really an issue for its owners—what matters more to the Saudis is merely that LIV Golf exists, and that Neom will exist, and that they hosted a giant rave. In the same way, there was never any chance that the National Security Advisors’ meeting that Mohammed bin Salman convened on Aug. 5 in Jeddah was going to advance the cause of peace in Ukraine. Rather, the point was to demonstrate the Saudi leadership’s power in bringing together the U.S. national security advisor, his Indian counterpart, a senior Chinese diplomat, and senior officials from 40 other countries.
The fact that Chinese Special Envoy for Eurasian Affairs Li Hui attended, given the state of Sino-American relations and Beijing’s relationship with Moscow, was for the Saudis an important indication of their influence and a marker that Riyadh is in a certain league of the most important international actors. That nothing of note was accomplished at the conclave did not matter one whit. And although sports, entertainment, arts, and diplomacy are obviously different, they are all aimed at establishing Cool Arabia.
It would be disingenuous to suggest that everything the Saudis have done in the better part of the past half decade is just for public relations purposes. The crown prince has overseen real reforms that many Saudis like, including the opening of cultural spaces so that those who are so inclined can go see Barbie, attend an MMA match, or enjoy the ballet.
But the sudden burst of activity and investment across a number of sectors seems contrived. Like Neom, the summit on Ukraine, as well as investment in sports, culture, and entertainment, are an ostentatious effort to convince the world that unlike the allegedly passive kingdom of Mohammed bin Salman’s uncles, who allowed the British and Americans to shape the Middle East, Saudi Arabia is destined to be a global mover and shaker during the crown prince’s reign.
That’s all fair, and best of luck to Mohammed bin Salman and his advisors. But surely they realize that it is not just about the spectacle of investing in sports, convening summits, and throwing giant raves. If Saudi Arabia wants to be a big deal, it can’t be just a show. Everyone knows that Saudi Arabia can move energy markets, but if the Saudis want to be taken seriously, they will need to do far more than paying gobs of money to soccer stars. If they don’t, Mohammed bin Salman will be reduced to little more than a ringmaster in his own circus.
Steven A. Cook is a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His latest book, The End of Ambition: America’s Past, Present, and Future in the Middle East, will be published in June 2024. Twitter: @stevenacook
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Ah!, doesn't your heart just swell with Irish pride?
https://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/conor-mcgregor-not-short-on-chat-for-cristiano-ronaldo-ringside-at-joshua-v-wallin-1568498.html (https://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/conor-mcgregor-not-short-on-chat-for-cristiano-ronaldo-ringside-at-joshua-v-wallin-1568498.html)
Was Ronaldo up in court on rape charges or was it tax charges? He was acquitted anyways afaik.
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Ah!, doesn't your heart just swell with Irish pride?
https://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/conor-mcgregor-not-short-on-chat-for-cristiano-ronaldo-ringside-at-joshua-v-wallin-1568498.html (https://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/conor-mcgregor-not-short-on-chat-for-cristiano-ronaldo-ringside-at-joshua-v-wallin-1568498.html)
Was Ronaldo up in court on rape charges or was it tax charges? He was acquitted anyways afaik.
Had paid her off once, probably had to pay again?
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I looked at the video again, and I'm wondering where McG got coke in Saudi Arabia. Ronaldo still looked embarrassed to be seen with him.