Ceasfire also just concluded after a month, where the Saudis committed over 5000 truce violations including more than 41 airstrikes on residential buildings.
Ceasfire also just concluded after a month, where the Saudis committed over 5000 truce violations including more than 41 airstrikes on residential buildings.
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Not a bug, but a feature. American geopolitical strategy of the 1950s was all about backing theocratic dictatorships across the Middle East and Pacific Rim. This mostly meant KMT-style ultra-nationalist Catholics in countries like China, Korea, Vietnam, and the Philippines. But Wahhabism was weaponized as a counter to secular Communism for decades.
But the US pivot to domestic gas production under Bush did irreparable damage to US-Saudi relations. We're no longer the Saudis' biggest export market. We're one of its biggest competitors. And since we refused to partner with OPEC to fix prices...
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I wouldn't even call it hypocritical so much as dogmatic. We're clinging to these old alliances almost out of reflex.
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Saudi Arabia isn’t siding with Russia, they are just trying to stay neutral to maximize their own leverage and profits. They are mad at the west for not genociding enough Yemenis and for caring about them chainsawing journalists