> Sarcasm aside, I don't understand why the West kowtows to Saudi's. They have oil, and they're willing to use it politically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19

> Sarcasm aside, I don't understand why the West kowtows to Saudi's. They have oil, and they're willing to use it politically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis. Democracies are very vulnerable to that kind of stuff.