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.
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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