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But you won't see Saudi Arabia bombed or invaded because of human rights violations...
by salex89 7y ago
But you won't see Saudi Arabia bombed or invaded because of human rights violations...
- astrodust 7y agoTo save your hide have either a lot of nuclear weapons or deep political ties to those that might invade you.
- devoply 7y agoThere are no real ties, it's pretty much a relationship where the Saudi give American/Western companies fat contracts in return for being left alone. The whole country is pretty much built by American corporations. Even like Aramco was an American company until the Saudis bought it from them. Like for instance from Wikipedia: > In the backlash against Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism (after 9/11), the Saudi government was portrayed in the media, Senate hearings, and elsewhere as > a sort of oily heart of darkness, the wellspring of a bleak, hostile value system that is the very antithesis of our own. America's seventy-year alliance with the kingdom has been reappraised as a ghastly mistake, a selling of the soul, a gas-addicted alliance with death.[60] > There was even a proposal at the Defense Policy Board, (an arm of Department of Defense) to consider `taking Saudi out of Arabia` by forcibly seizing control of the oil fields, giving the Hijaz back to the Hashemites, and delegating control of Medina and Mecca to a multinational committee of moderate, non-Wahhabi Muslims.
- astrodust 7y agoYou say there's no real ties, then you go on to describe several real ties.
- devoply 7y agoI would not consider converging economic interests ties. As those can change at any moment. I guess the whole war racketeering thing is the same thing, you destroy a country to rebuild it. If they are already doing that, letting you build it then what's the point of destroying it.
- AckSyn 7y ago> I would not consider converging economic interests ties. This seems to be exactly what 'ties' are, here.
- chillacy 7y agoI had assumed that in geopolitics the order goes: 1. Security interests 2. Economic interests 3. Shared values
- hedora 7y agoYou forgot: 0. Personal gain (At least until they start enforcing anti-bribery laws against the first family.)
- gremlinsinc 7y agoWhen did we start zero-indexing numbered lists?
- 0-_-0 7y agoYou must be a Pascal programmer
- obhmt 7y agoThey are friends with Israel so...
- salex89 7y agoI'm not really sure that Israel is the main force keeping Saudi Arabian regime out of harm's way, to be honest, even with the cooperation between them.
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- charlesism 7y agoYou can't think of a more likely reason why Saudi Arabia has influence? Wow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...
- ShorsHammer 7y agoAt this point even some sanctions and trade boycotts is a pipe dream. The West has completely given up on any pretence of caring about human rights in the Middle East.
- aaomidi 7y agoThe US never cared. It was all a sham to get the public to support various interventionst measures.
- cmurf 7y agoNope, you'll see the U.S. president, with pleasure, talk about how many jobs we get from all the Saudi Arabian blood money pouring into the country by selling them arms to blow up Yemeni children. Etc.
- pauljurczak 7y ago"They may be bastards, but they're our bastards." - statement attributed to some presidents, not only of U.S.