1. There's been some chatter about what sort of foreign policy the emerging political left in America can have. Here's a project: a popular movement to end the Saudi-American alliance.https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1048675609814155264 …
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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
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.
I honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic. The Saudis are the ones who exported Wahhabism to the rest of the region.
a twitter spat. mild symbolic gesture. No substantive change to the CDN stance
They are the de facto guarantors of the petrodollar, so the global financial and energy supply systems will need to be reformed in order to move away from the Saudis.
But Canada didn’t take a stronger stance on Saudi. Yes there was a tweet about the human rights situation, but Canada continues to sell arms to KSA and was trying to mend fences with them at the UN last week https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4837033
and Canada was hung out to dry by the U.S. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-us-sidesteps-getting-involved-in-escalating-saudi-canada-dispute/ …
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