US shouldn’t end partnership with Saudis. Useful for counter-terrorism (intelligence sharing etc) and likely alternatives are worse (jihadist-controlled state or Syria-like chaos). But a big point of the relationship is leverage to restrain worst Saudi impulses. US should use it.
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In US-Saudi relationship, America is the senior partner. Both benefit, but they need us more than we need them. Trump administration treating it as the opposite.
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Replying to @NGrossman81
Agreed. Also, for Trump personally — and that’s his only lens, after all— it IS the opposite.
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Replying to @JamesMS24
Unfortunately, I think that's a reasonable suspicion.
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from Urbana, IL
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