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Saudi Prince

Incorrigible Authoritarian

So much for Joe Biden's earlier promise to make the Saudi regime 'the pariah that they are'. Instead of sanctioning MBS, reports of the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, flying down to Riyadh to nudge the Saudis to pump more oil (to put pressure on the Russians) and declining to comment on the latest incident of human rights violation, speaks volumes of amorality and realpolitik at play