alt Hacker NewsHow is this complicated?
US uses dollars to buy oil from UAE.
UAE sends dollars back to Paramount shareholders in the US to "own" a piece Paramount.
Is it "foreign owned"? Do they really own anything? What are they really going to do with it? I don't know. I inhabit a world of nuance, I don't take rhetoric at face value, that's a waste of time.
The US buys almost no oil from the UAE. It's less than a half a percent of our oil imports.
> What are they really going to do with it?
The obvious thing would be to shift content away from "American" values and more towards whatever values the UAE leadership wants. Maybe the Baywatch reboot gets canned because they don't want to see bouncing boobies. Maybe stories critical of the UAE aren't aired on 60 minutes.