Why are these kinds of articles always so reluctant to explain issues like this, on Putin/Russia and MBS/Saudi Arabia? Note also, Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen i

Why are these kinds of articles always so reluctant to explain issues like this, on Putin/Russia and MBS/Saudi Arabia? Note also, Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen is the more appropriate comparison to Russia's war on Ukraine (and let's not forget the USA's wars on Iraq and Afghanistan, either). Here's an excerpt from the report: > "Russia, for example, has long targeted dissidents outside its borders. But only in the wake of the Ukraine invasion has the international community taken strong measures to hold Putin’s government to account. Meanwhile, the wider lesson seems to have escaped the international community: Even as Western countries slap sanctions on Russia, they have slowly allowed Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman back into the fold, despite his appalling record of suppressing freedom of expression online and evidence that he played a role in the murder of Khashoggi." Is it not obvious that American presidents pander to Saudi princelings because Saudi Arabia recycles petrodollars to Wall Street in the form of bloated arms deals and other investment activities? Dictators and authoritarians who do this always get a pass from 'the democratic Western humanitarian governments'. Does anyone really doubt that if Putin had taken that route, and recycled the majority of Russian oil export money into the Western banking system, that there never would have been US support for regime change in Ukraine in 2014, or in Georgia in 2008, or an effort to block the Nordstream 2 pipeline, and so on? Any military action in eastern Ukraine would have been treated with the same relative indifference that the Saudi/UAE military assault and blockade of Yemen. Hypocrisy is the name of the game for the 'free West' on this issue.