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The US should also freeze MBS' personal assets. No doubt it's in banks all over the world.

I would argue, that MBS is the wealthiest person on Earth, and no foreign asset freezes can affect him. As a crown prince and a future king of Saudi Arabia, he has trillions at his disposition, and nobody above him. The body language of Vladimir Putin standing next to him says it all[1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/13/saudi-arabia-k...

And what....? Might as well support regime change in SA, because he'll ask for Russian protection /weapons (think of Iran, balance of power etc).

Better to make him go into his pants a few times and remind him things like Saddam, Qaddafi etc etc and how fast his regime can go. Remind him what would happen to his power, money and family if USA stopped supporting them. USA can send a fax and have MBS replaced. And by the way, release another 1 million barrels of oil a day to lower the price.

Yea Iraq and Libya sure turned out OK for everyone after those regimes were toppled. (Hint: they didn't)

I'd rather the US and NATO address the thousands of civilians that Saudi is killing in Yemen. That's an excellent reason not to sell weapons to them, but I must be the only one that thinks so...

They buy Russian weapons and keep killing. Russia will veto anything in the UN for them. SA will in return do what Russia wants when it comes to OPEC.

So, what did we win? Scare the crap out of them or have the King choose a new person to take over after he's dead.

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