2. The Saudi-American alliance has enormous bipartisan elite support (just take a look at the output of many think tanks) but there's a wellspring of popular opposition to it among people of many different political stripes.
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3. We saw a prototype of how this could work in Canada, with rising public pressure forcing Canadian government to take a harder stance on Saudi human rights.
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4. Severing the alliance won't be easy. It has enormous support with military industrial complex, arms industry, the higher reaches of journalism (i.e. Tom Friedman). But opponents have a secret weapon: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
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5. The fact is that Mohammed bin Salman is even more touchy than most autocrats. Touchier than a flesh wound. He can't abide criticism. Even very mild sanction from USA would set him off.
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Hell yeah
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can you really do that without creating financial turmoil? wouldn’t a more complete movement be to clean up modern capitalism?
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Wait. We *can't* change the terms of US support for Saudi Arabia without causing "financial turmoil," but we *can* "clean up modern capitalism" without doing so?
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Is that even possible with the Saudi $ in the US?
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We can’t even get the Trudeau government in Canada to stop selling weapons to the Saudis.
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Now who’s being naive Kaye?
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Okay. That made me LOL.
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