• The United States is investigating a report that Saudi Arabia killed “hundreds” of migrants.
  • Human Rights Watch said border guards in Saudi Arabia killed scores of migrants in Yemen.
  • The Biden administration is investigating whether US weapons were used in the reported attacks.
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      1 年前

      Likely, either apply diplomatic pressure to the saudis and get them to stop doing these things to migrants or restrict what weapons they can purchase. Or other diplomatic consequences.

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          1 年前

          The United States is a net oil exporter. What we want to do is keep them from getting nuclear weapons so that when their economy collapsed, terrorist groups don’t get H-bombs

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          Oil has nothing to do with it directly, but more the price of oil. OPEC has a huge influence on the global oil price.

          The US is actually a net exporter of oil now, and Saudi Arabia makes up only 7% of the imports we do make. Canada is by far our biggest source of imports at 60%, followed by Mexico at 10%.

          This wasn’t true before 2020 which is why you’ve seen Biden making more moves like this. We don’t need them as much now.

          We do still maintain a diplomatic alliance with them to have access to the Persian Gulf though.