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Why aren't we getting rid of the Saudi, Qatari, Emirati, Egyptian, etc. governments?

• Aloha 10mo ago
  So I dont think we should but doing regime change - however the ones you cited appear to have broad popular support in their respective lands and are at most minor nuisances to their neighbors - they're also participants in the international community too.
  • markdown 10mo ago
    > the ones you cited appear to have broad popular support in their respective lands So you're saying that authoritarianism works and is just fine. The implication is that Venezuala is a shithole and it's people are unhappy with their leader because of sanctions, not because of the lack of democracy.
    • Aloha 10mo ago
      I'm saying people have a right to choose that, and moreover it's not my obligation as an American to fund overthrowing those regimes, or for that matter make them pariahs for being undemocratic alone. As much as I dislike it, there are also an acceptable amount of human right abuses before we care, and its somewhere between punishing dissidents and genocide. Venezuela had economic issues before sanctions due to chronic mismanagement of the economy, which led to a humanitarian crisis causing a mass exodus (which made the economic issues worse).
• SauntSolaire 10mo ago
  Ostensibly the difference lies in the monroe doctrine, though of course the real issue is practicality.