Why US Sees Saudi Arabia Again as Partner, Not Pariah

almost 2 years in Washington Post

For more than seven decades, despite stark differences on matters such as human rights and the Arab-Israeli conflict, the US and Saudi Arabia maintained a close alliance based on an exchange of security for oil. During Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign he said he’d end the amity, vowing to make Saudi Arabia a global “pariah” over the 2018 murder of columnist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents inside the country’s consulate in Istanbul. Biden didn’t actually go that far after taking office in 2

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