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* While Aladeen's cruelty is mostly PlayedForLaughs, it goes without saying he is responsible for some degree of death and suffering, even if the resistance managed to smuggle his victims to the United States.
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* Aladeen refuses to sell off the country's oil reserves, but then where does he get all his wealth from?
** Um, he's a corrupt autocrat, so it is likely he makes his fortune through graft, straight-up kleptocratic theft, and underground illicit activities.
** This troper also got the impression that Aladeen was maintaining full control of the oil reserves meaning that oil was being drilled and produced, just that Aladeen (as opposed to Exxon, BP etc) got all the wealth.
!!FridgeLogic:
* Aladeen refuses to sell off the country's oil reserves, but then where does he get all his wealth from?
** Um, he's a corrupt autocrat, so it is likely he makes his fortune through graft, straight-up kleptocratic theft, and underground illicit activities.
** This troper also got the impression that Aladeen was maintaining full control of the oil reserves meaning that oil was being drilled and produced, just that Aladeen (as opposed to Exxon, BP etc) got all the wealth.
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* While Aladeen's cruelty is mostly PlayedForLaughs, it goes without saying he is responsible for some degree of death and suffering, even if the resistance managed to smuggle his victims to the United States.
!!FridgeLogic:
* Aladeen refuses to sell off the country's oil reserves, but then where does he get all his wealth from?
** Um, he's a corrupt autocrat, so it is likely he makes his fortune through graft, straight-up kleptocratic theft, and underground illicit activities.
** This troper also got the impression that Aladeen was maintaining full control of the oil reserves meaning that oil was being drilled and produced, just that Aladeen (as opposed to Exxon, BP etc) got all the wealth.States.
!!FridgeLogic:
* Aladeen refuses to sell off the country's oil reserves, but then where does he get all his wealth from?
** Um, he's a corrupt autocrat, so it is likely he makes his fortune through graft, straight-up kleptocratic theft, and underground illicit activities.
** This troper also got the impression that Aladeen was maintaining full control of the oil reserves meaning that oil was being drilled and produced, just that Aladeen (as opposed to Exxon, BP etc) got all the wealth.
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* Why is Zoey often called a boy by Aladeen and falls in love with her? Stereotypically, Arab women are for procreation and young men are for pleasure.
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* Why is Zoey often called a boy by Aladeen and falls in love with her? Stereotypically, Arab women are for procreation and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacha_bazi young men are for pleasure.pleasure]].
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** Um, he's a corrupt autocrat, so it is likely he makes his fortune through graft, straight-up kleptocratic theft, and underground illicit activities.
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** Um, he's a corrupt autocrat, so it is likely he makes his fortune through graft, straight-up kleptocratic theft, and underground illicit activities.activities.
** This troper also got the impression that Aladeen was maintaining full control of the oil reserves meaning that oil was being drilled and produced, just that Aladeen (as opposed to Exxon, BP etc) got all the wealth.
** This troper also got the impression that Aladeen was maintaining full control of the oil reserves meaning that oil was being drilled and produced, just that Aladeen (as opposed to Exxon, BP etc) got all the wealth.
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* Aladeen being kidnapped and tortured by an American is also a (subtle) swipe at how America's behavior on the world stage is often that of a dictatorship.
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* Aladeen being kidnapped and tortured by an American is also a (subtle) swipe at how America's behavior on the world stage is often that of a dictatorship.
dictatorship. [[TheHorseshoeEffect This man claims to be a patriot, and yet he does things that are nominally un-American]].
* Clayton having a pathetic set of tools for his torture of Aladeen makes sense: he's grown up in a country that, while not perfect, generally doesn't have systems of institutional torture. Aladeen, a man who inherited a dictatorship, would be far more up to date on torture tools.
* Clayton having a pathetic set of tools for his torture of Aladeen makes sense: he's grown up in a country that, while not perfect, generally doesn't have systems of institutional torture. Aladeen, a man who inherited a dictatorship, would be far more up to date on torture tools.
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* While Aladeen's cruelty is mostly PlayedForLaughs, it goes without saying he is responsible for some degree of death and suffering, even if the resistance managed to smuggle his victims to the United States.
