Khashoggi was a terrorist and I’m not sad he’s gone, but Saudi Arabia is not “reforming” and we don’t need their oil or anything from them. If they want to buy our fighter jets, our guns and other things then fine, but they’d better start doing a better job of actually putting Iran in its place in that case.
Saudi Arabia is reforming a bit
That’s not my business actually anymore than let’s see our list of strong arm friends we betrayed over the years was
Pinochet
Franco
Stroessner
The Shah
Brasil junta
Various Argentina juntas before the stupid last one
Marcos
Indonesian despots
Diem
Saddam
General Cedrás
I left out Battistas and Trujillos and various Latin tinhorns
But whenever we apply virtue signaling we fail ....and are left with worse more often than not
This Regent wants to move his country beyond fundies, petroeconomy and yes liberalize some th8ngs slowly....although I don’t care about their domestic issues
It’s their monarchy
House of Saud won it fair and square by force and respect and if they want to hold on by force so be it
This is the real world and our form of govt is not applicable everywhere....you might notice after 200 plus years were barely hanging on
I prefer having a Saudi Arabia friendly to us and Israel and willing to fight Iran
Maybe I’m just mean
I am very familiar personally with how this all worked out in Chilé and Haiti and Nicaragua and Brasíl....