'In Fontenrose’s empire-addled brain, the US can simply provide
private seminars for not just MBS but other foreign leaders as well,
teaching them not to do atrocities and war crimes. And this will
reconcile the glaring dissonance between what the US government says it values and what it actually does.'
In “Saudi Arabia shows Biden can’t have it all,” Politico describes an entirely imaginary conflict of presidential interests between a sincere desire to prioritize humanitarian concerns in Saudi Arabia and a need to maintain warm relations with Riyadh to keep oil prices low amid Washington’s economic war against Moscow. I say entirely imaginary because of course the US would happily turn a blind eye to Saudi royals using babies for skeet shooting as long as they continued to advance US fossil fuel interests.