> But the dictatorship is the cause of that embargo. Well, the political ideology of the dictatorship and its unwillingness to be a puppet state of the USA ar

> But the dictatorship is the cause of that embargo. Well, the political ideology of the dictatorship and its unwillingness to be a puppet state of the USA are the cause of that embargo. As diplomacy in the Arabian peninsula shows, the USA has no issue with dictatorships and hereditary absolute monarchies provided they buy American weapons and fight on the appropriate side of proxy wars.