And there is simply no comparing the status of women in China or Russia to Saudi Arabia.
Combine that with Saudi Arabia's barbaric public beheadings and you're talking about a modern dystopia that many in the US would rather ignore out of convenience. Another common response is to distract from their crimes by hyping up other bogeymen in more direct competition with the US.
See: - saudis treatment of immigrant labor. - saudis treatment of women. - saudis war in Yemen. - extrajudicial killings and imprisonment of journalists. - etc.
For every criticism you cite against a US enemy/competitor, one can find an analogy in Saudi.
I think you’ve learned the wrong lessons from the Iraq and Afghan wars.
Isn't that the essence of why Saudi Arabia gets to do whatever they want without the world police interfering?
I wish Iraq would have turned out differently.
Egypt, Israel, Kuwait and Qatar. Less reliably: Jordan, the U.A.E. and Turkey. Not great, but not untenable.
Saudi Arabia's GDP is worth double and quadruple those, respectively. However, that number isn't so far ahead as to be irreplaceable.
Relationships change, too. The movement in Iran now has the West's popular interest and support.
> I wish Iraq would have turned out differently.
US doesn't have allies, like every empire it has interests. Sometimes this interests overlap with other entities (be it countries, or not). This interests can be long term, but sooner or later interests change and suddenly entities no longer have any support ( or become enemies). And US have no qualms doing so.
Could you imagine the credibility this would give them, considering the location of Mecca?
Compared to the many US invasions and their support of the occupation in Plaestine or Russia and what they are doing in Syria, Libya and many other countries or China's brain washing Muslims, they are nothing.
Thats without talking about North Korea of course, which are on a whole new level.
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Note that the people jailed since 2020 are unpaid volunteers – not paid staff, as the headline implies.
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