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The speaker says 9/11 and Saudi human-rights abuses damaged U.S.-Saudi relations, making it harder for Saudi Arabia to get America to fight Iran.
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U S Saudi Relations
The speaker says 9/11 and Saudi human-rights abuses damaged U.S.-Saudi relations, making it harder for Saudi Arabia to get America to fight Iran.
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The speaker says MBS used Trump's presidency to reset relations with America, including Trump's first foreign trip to Saudi Arabia and MBS's relationship with Jared Kushner.
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"The first thing it learned is that if it wants to defeat their enemies, the Houthis, the Syrians, and the Iraqis, they also need..."
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"Okay? Americans didn't like Saudi Arabia. Americans also knew that there were a lot of human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia. The other thing..."
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"Okay? And he proposed a new vision for Saudi Arabia called Vision 2030. Okay? But MBS' most important achievement is that he became friends..."
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: Saudi Arabia's rivalry with Iran moved from religion and oil into proxy war, exposed the kingdom's fragile infrastructure, and made a Trump-led America the weapon Saudi...
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