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No. Saudi Arabia is a dictatorship run by tyrants who order members of their own family kidnapped abroad, journalists murdered then cut up their bodies to hide
by grey-area 5y ago
No.
Saudi Arabia is a dictatorship run by tyrants who order members of their own family kidnapped abroad, journalists murdered then cut up their bodies to hide the crime, and imprison then extort leading businessmen to consolidate power and money in their hands. They have far more in common with Putin’s Russia than the US.
The US is a long way from that, whatever its flaws (and there are many flaws, chief amongst them making alliances with brutal dictators like the Saudis).
- vmception 5y ago> who order members of their own family kidnapped abroad, journalists murdered then cut up their bodies to hide the crime Extraordinary rendition? Foreign policy in most places is different from domestic policy. The similarities are greater than the dissimilarities.
- buran77 5y agoSpeaking of due process, 97% of criminal cases don't actually go to trial in the US and are instead settled with plea deals [0]. The sentencing is so harsh for anyone demanding trial and losing that it's mostly a paper right at this time. It does give people the warm fuzzy feeling of justice and correctness though. If you're used to the EU justice or penal systems (very far from perfect and sometimes not even good, mind you), looking at the US systems must feel similar to a US citizen looking at SA justice - very lopsided, barbaric or cruel, disproportionate, and nothing close to fair. [0] https://innocenceproject.org/guilty-pleas-on-the-rise-criminal-trials-on-the-decline/ https://innocenceproject.org/guilty-pleas-on-the-rise-crimin...
- grey-area 5y agoNo, they are not close to the same.