• JWayn596@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I don’t think the analogy to Egypt works, because they have a peace treaty.

    We all know Israel and Saudi Arabia have a shared adversary in the form of Iran. The US wants them to normalize so they can take care of that front.

    As for getting impaled on the stick, I’d say Pakistan got impaled on the stick, because its likely they were the ones hiding Bin Laden.

    As for Saddam falling on the stick, that was due to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait over several reasons: a desire to reunify, oil, and Kuwait debt. That’s on top of having a history of using chemical weapons for mass murder.

    And as we know, the US loves oil, but so does the world. Globalized markets want to be stable, and the US helps with that