> it's a stretch to say that the interests of Mohammad bin Salman are categorically the interests of Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia has been an extremist, terrorist plutocratic religious dictatorship since the house of saud was influenced by the terrorist philosopher Wahabbi.

Bin Salman matches the character of the average Saudi, I've spent a great deal of time there.

Be that as it may, the whole thing looks to me like a tyrant prince using his power for personal affairs. I don't see a clear path from that to "satisfying this guy's thirst for blood is in the national of America and Israel."

In life, Khashoggi may have been a critic of Saudi Arabia, but I don't think he was an existential threat to Saudi Arabia's ability to be an effective ally to America or Israel.