Because US immunity to MbS for the Khashoggi murder shouldn’t come as a surprise

19 November 20221 year ago babelfish

The Biden administration ruled on Thursday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will have immunity for killing Jamal Khashoggi. The italics of Giuseppe Gagliano

News joked by all major international news agencies that the Biden administration ruled on Thursday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will have immunity over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi – who was shot and dismembered in October 2018 by Saudi agents in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul – should come as no surprise.

Let's see the reasons.

First, all of this demonstrates the inconsistency of the current Biden administration with respect to campaign promises.

Second, it demonstrates the US administration's weakness towards the Saudis both for reasons related to oil and to prevent Saudi Arabia from further strengthening its ties with China and Russia.

Therefore, while on the one hand the American superpower demonstrates that it has no inhibitions from a political and military point of view towards Russia and, in part, towards China, on the contrary it demonstrates an attitude of subjection towards Saudi Arabia.

This will only strengthen the domestic and foreign policy choices of the current Saudi administration, which will have an easy time influencing thechoices of the American administration. But this news demonstrates once again that in foreign policy reason of state always prevails over moral choices and often over juridical ones as well.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/perche-limmunita-usa-a-mbs-per-lomicidio-khashoggi-non-deve-stupire/ on Sat, 19 Nov 2022 08:16:28 +0000.