Saudi Operatives Who Killed Khashoggi Received Paramilitary Training in U.S.
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#2Why is keeping nice with the Saudi family so important? Why does the US government bend over backwards to cover up for them?
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#3I clicked expecting to enjoy another public black eye for the School of the Americas, and instead I’m left with dread that the USA has privatized that training. Because of course you have.
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#4Why is keeping nice with the Saudi family so important? Why does the US government bend over backwards to cover up for them?
Because they have lots of money and spread it around generously.
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#5Why is keeping nice with the Saudi family so important? Why does the US government bend over backwards to cover up for them?
One theory is “petro dollars” - Saudi Arabia mandates all of their oil is purchased in dollars, thus ensuring global demand for dollars as every country needs oil. In return, the US has their back unconditionally. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar_recycling#Petrod...
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#6Why is keeping nice with the Saudi family so important? Why does the US government bend over backwards to cover up for them?
For most of recent history they've been a major supplier of oil to the US.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=m...
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#7Why is keeping nice with the Saudi family so important? Why does the US government bend over backwards to cover up for them?
Historically, the least bad option in maintaining supply of the fuel of civilization and countering Iran, Russian, and Chinese influence. Such is geopolitics.
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#8I clicked expecting to enjoy another public black eye for the School of the Americas, and instead I’m left with dread that the USA has privatized that training. Because of course you have.
If it makes you feel any better, many US citizens hate it too. It's stupid both to privatize the military, and to provide military training to repressive authoritarian regimes.
America and our democratic allies spent half a century fighting totalitarianism, only to turn around and treat the post-Cold War "peace dividend" as carte-blance to sell out everything we had just finished fighting for. Now authoritarianism is on the rise again as a result.
This has to be most idiotic own-goal in history.
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#9Why is keeping nice with the Saudi family so important? Why does the US government bend over backwards to cover up for them?
For most of recent history they've been a major supplier of oil to the US. https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=m...
They aren’t anymore, are more dependent on US weapons and parts than vice versa
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#10I clicked expecting to enjoy another public black eye for the School of the Americas, and instead I’m left with dread that the USA has privatized that training. Because of course you have.
If it makes you feel any better, many US citizens hate it too. It's stupid both to privatize the military, and to provide military training to repressive authoritarian regimes. America and our democratic allies spent half a century fighting totalitarianism, only to turn around and treat the post-Cold War "peace dividend" as carte-blance to sell out everything we had just finished fighting for. Now authoritarianism is…
> spent half a century fighting totalitarianism
By destabilizing and ousting democratically elected leaders around the world and replacing them with our puppets? Or do you mean fighting those puppets when they became inconvenient?
I suspect what happened is not the history you think it is.