It said a row of 10 houses worth a total of $122 million have stood unused since they were bought between 1989 and 1993, supposedly on behalf of Saudi royalty.
In other words, criminal motherfuckers who abuse their own people and finance religious extremism, now also fucking up London for the people who live there.
On New York real estates's appeal to the worst scumbags of the new (mostly criminal) global elite:
Your anger is misplaced. It's precisely these countries' governments that prop up dictators and princes that accumulate all that wealth instead of investing/distributing amongst their own people.
What goes around, comes around. And please don't tell me that the people are not representative of the govt. Most western governments are democratic....and I don't think ordinary civilians can have any more power than what they already have(even though they might not exercise it).
Btw, this makes me wonder if we should make foreign affairs something that is more actively debated amongst the general public than Kadarshians/Hollywood/Royal Babies.