What do you believe is going on with the Khashoggi case? I'm not questioning that he was killed by the Saudis or even why they did it. I'm curious as to why the Saudis' former friends in Western circles of power have suddenly turned on them. All the bad guys so to speak. Merkel, May, the Ziocons, American Congresscritters from both parties, the EU.... Let's get one thing out of the way immediately. Those people don't give a flying fuck about a foreign journalist getting offed in some backward country. They have no hesitation in slaughtering hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in places like Iraq and Syria. Journalists are killed all of the time and after a few perfunctory squawks are quickly forgotten. So let us scratch morality as a motive.
So what else can it be?
US foreign policy is for all practical purposes run by the Israelis yet they and the Saudis have been best friends for quite some time. And Israel's (and therefore our) Great Satan is Iran (you know, the country that five years ago was, according to Netenyahu, within weeks of launching a nuclear attack), the bitter enemies of the Saudis. There's Saudi purchasing power, strong enough to bring most Western countries to heel and Jared Kushner is best buddies with new Saudi strongman MbS.
It could be that the West will not follow through with any meaningful sanctions. But already they've virtually killed the forthcoming 'Davos In The Desert' investment conference on which MbS had staked so much. I watch with interest and hope that the combatants eventually destroy one another.