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by hef19898 1538 days ago
Because Khashoggi's murder is so well covered and so just blatantly bold. The war in Yemen doesn't bother people that much because a) who knows where Yemen actually is b) Yemen is a poor and mostly muslim country c) Saudi is buying western weapons and selling us oil d) Saudi is hosting the Formula 1.

Considering what Saudi Arabia is doing in Yemen, with implicit support from NATO countries, and what Russia is doing in Ukraine we (as in Europe and the "West") should have stopped all business relationships with Saudi quite a while ago.

Saudi's actions bother me so, up to the point I refuse to work as much as possible with them, for them or with money from them. Luckily, for now at least, that is made easy since (to my knowledge) my employer isn't funded by Saudi blood money. It is funded by Chinese money so, which poses an interesting dilemma.