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by JohnStrangeII 2643 days ago
Your claims about what the US did and didn't do seem rather implausible to me, and in any case it seems unlikely that you're in a position to know what e.g. the NSA, the CIA, or any of the countless US military intelligence agencies did or did not do for Saudia Arabia. All we know is that the US makes massive weapons and oil deals with Saudi Arabia and has considered the Saudis one of the most important strategic partners in the region. Personally, I find it not hard to believe that the same cynics involved in these deals and cooperation wouldn't care all too much about some Saudi journalists, gay Saudi youtube channel dancers, or human rights activists, but of course I could also be wrong. The point is that we don't know.