21 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

and several top Thai businessmen are currently in Saudi Arabia,

I thought he was in Dubai.????

Not much nature in KSA. It's true there are some camels but that's not enough. It must be the human population that will provide the rich brown that they show in the picture on the opening post.

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2 hours ago, TooBigToFit said:

Not much nature in KSA. It's true there are some camels but that's not enough. It must be the human population that will provide the rich brown that they show in the picture on the opening post.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian_Fertilizer_Company#:~:text=SAFCO is one of the,private sector and the public.

On 5/16/2022 at 6:30 PM, farmerjo said:

It doesn't matter where it comes from.

If the price still resembles current global prices the Thai's wont be buying it.

 

This kind of petty corruption  is just standard business practice especially  with Saudi and everybody knows and accepts it. But the west is just the same  but worse. The UK  is one of the most corrupt countries in the world for money laundering

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/10/uk-corrupt-nation-earth-brexit-money-laundering

Bent contracts where common during covid

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/22/fifth-of-uk-covid-contracts-raised-red-flags-for-possible-corruption

And the corruption  of the UK arms industry  is legendary.

So the culture of 'brown envelopes' is international and not limited to Thailand .

Your comment is both extraneous  and selective.

Where there's  muck there's  brass!

They have been buying a lot of fertiliser from Russia which is now more difficult to get as Western firms don't want to ship it and shipping in the Black Sea is risky.