Adellle Nazarian does her best to shill for a foreign country in a Jan. 5 Newsmax column:
There is a moment in every serious relationship when both parties stop performing for the crowd and begin speaking honestly to each other.
The posturing fades, grudges lose their power.
What remains is a clear recognition of interests, limits, and lBut ong-term intent.That’s where the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia now stands.
The emerging $1 trillion economic framework between Washington and Riyadh is neither a romantic gesture nor an attempt to rehabilitate reputations or rewrite history.
It’s far more durable and consequential.
It reflects two systems which have grown tired of caricature and chosen instead to deal in leverage, capital, and reality.
[…]Saudi Arabia understands that headlines linger, particularly those shaped by moments that once dominated international discourse.
But the Kingdom has chosen not to remain trapped in a single narrative frame.
Instead, it’s moving forward through performance rather than protest, delivery rather than defensiveness. In geopolitics, relevance is earned through outcomes.
One of those headlines, of course, is the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, reportedly on the orders of Saudi Crown prince Mohammed bin Salman. But Nazarian didn’t want to talk about that, because she ha more shilling to do:
Saudi Arabia is not asking to be understood as a Western democracy; it’s asking to be recognized as a serious actor operating in the world as it exists.
Riyadh Season is not a party. It’s a message.
And the message is that Saudi Arabia is no longer asking the world to imagine its future.
It’s inviting the world to participate.
Nazarian’s Newsmax bio states vaguely that she has worked for “several non-government organizations,” but has been published at various right-wing right-wing websites, and her main gig appears to be as a senior fellow with the Gold Institute for International Strategy. Yet this column reads like the Saudis paid her to write it.