Mainstream Media Discovers Trump, Not US Foreign Policy, Is the Problem
According to The Independent , Trump's cozying up to MBS is uniquely problematic, reflecting his 'monarchical worldview.' This analysis conveniently sidesteps the deep, decades-long alliance between the US and the Saudi monarchy, an alliance that predates Trump by generations. President Biden, after all, once promised to make Saudi Arabia a 'pariah' for human rights abuses, only to perform his own
fist-bump with MBS in 2022, securing oil deals and weapon sales. One might wonder if the concern about 'monarchical worldviews' only surfaces when a specific former President is involved, rather than when billions in US weapons flow to a regime accused of extensive human rights violations and a devastating war in Yemen. The 'family business' of US foreign policy has always found autocrats quite
palatable, so long as the checks clear.