She's still at risk in the US. These rich Saudi families will not hesitate to send their goons to the US.
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Its worth noting that the husband is not Saudi royalty. The things they might be willing to do might be drastically more limited
He’s still rich
And he may be able to still curry some favour, but we're not talking Kashoggi-esque actions in the United States. Those things cost enormous amounts of political capital, they cannot afford to spend it on some ex wife of a random Saudi businessman
What do you mean political capital? The dude would just send his goons on a private plane to the US. They hunt down his ex wife murder her and they are on the plane back to Saudi Arabia. No need for the Saudi government or family to be involved.
What do you mean political capital?
Basically the threshold before Saudi Arabia sees actual, country-affecting sanctions.
The dude would just send his goons on a private plane to the US. They hunt down his ex wife murder her and they are on the plane back to Saudi Arabia.
Not that easy. The Saudi royal family can only operate with that impunity because they are the Saudi royal family. For a simple rich Saudi guy, they first need to find out exactly where she is living, execute the murder without being captured, high tail it back to Saudi Arabia and hope the royal family don't turn them all over (rich guy included) to the USA for extradition under the threat of invasion.
They don't have the protection of being royal family and the case is already all over the news. The husband would be the prime suspect in any context killing and would be extradited in a heartbeat.
Never been to the US, huh?
It's not like Saudi Arabia or Cambodia. Political assassinations here are excruciatingly rare because Americans generally see themselves as better than that and have systems in place to prevent it.
Other nations have systems in place to allow it.
If her husband is American, there's a 0% chance the Saudis facilitate his assassination on US soil. If word got out (which it will,) Americans will be clamoring for retaliation. And they will get it.
I wonder what kinda messed up things you could do with this. Knowing that the goal is to kidnap you and your daughter and drag you to the Saudi Arabian Embassy.
Could you open carry right infront of the embassy? You know pull a Rittenhouse. Could you randomly follow the goons supposed to be following you? Send them delivery food with a message "try and catch me" to the embassy staff home? Spend an entire day just going from bus to bus subway to subway just to see who follows and then start screaming while pointing at the goon "I don't want to see your penis!".
Yay
Tell me how Islam is slavery, without telling me Islam is slavery.
Good.
It's a shame wealthy men abuse women for sport.