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by sthkr 1421 days ago
He isn't a volatile monarch. The western media likes to exaggerate everything that comes out of the GCC Arab Regions. Tiny past issues are irrelevant. The pandemic changed a lot of the mindset in the middle east. Saudi Arabia nowadays has good relations with 99% of all nations including Russia and China. There's currently peace talks happening with Iran mediated by Iraq. Qatar and Turkey are at peace with KSA too. Yemen's original government is at peace with KSA too. After the pandemic, Saudi Arabia is moving on focusing more on the future of its Saudi citizens and development of its country including signing good beneficial trade deals in manufacturing, science, tourism etc.

Joe Biden is irrelevant in the Middle East. Presidents come and go every 4 or 8 years. Kings stay for more than 50 years. None of the GCC countries really give a damn about Biden. There are so many Saturday Night Live sketches making fun of Biden's dementia and decision making. Joe Biden thought he could bully KSA around, but on the contrary he was disrespected so much when he came to KSA recently. The United States needs to focus on the welfare and future of its citizens. Millions living in poverty, while Biden is giving billions to Ukraine for war. Millions in the USA having to worry about student loans, housing, food etc, while Biden focuses on wasting it on useless matters. The United States is world's largest and richest economy, but many of its citizens live in poverty, despair worrying about healthcare, education, security etc.
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paulryanrogers 1420 days ago
The US isn't as oil rich as Saudia Arabia and has more than 10x the population, and far more diversity. So while I'm sure there are some good things the USA could learn from KSA I don't think money and monarchies would be as effective. (Though I'd like to see less spent on defense boondoggles and more on social safety nets.) Now certainly the KSA has much to learn about tolerating dissent, nepotism in government, and freedom of the press.
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rasz 1420 days ago
> Tiny past issues

tiny because chopped up to pieces and "videotaped to prove the mission had been accomplished and the tape was taken out of the country"?

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