Im aware of that. But we aren’t facing what we did in WWII. That Saudi hell hole gets treated as legitimate and it only not as repressive as North Korea. There is literally more freedom in Red China than Saudi Arabia.
And there was zero excuse to pay to arm ISIS.
We walk around crowing about peace and freedom. One or two despots being in our camp for some very specific urgent reason, I get. But when nearly every freedom crushing movement on earth is supported by us, you have to start asking some hard questions.
Our government doesn’t care about “peace and freedom.” We will do business with any country that accepts the U.S. dollar as a global reserve currency. And we will undermine — or even overthrow — the government of any country that doesn’t.
Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia has potential. He’s young and friendly to the West. He has removed the power of religious police in his country to make arrests. And finally, Saudi women are able to drive. So Saudi Arabia is making progress to join civilisation. However, MBS has blood on his hands. Which is typical for an Arab ruler.