- The United States is investigating a report that Saudi Arabia killed “hundreds” of migrants.
- Human Rights Watch said border guards in Saudi Arabia killed scores of migrants in Yemen.
- The Biden administration is investigating whether US weapons were used in the reported attacks.
- It’s important when selling a product to collect user feedback and real-world test results. 
- ha, what are they going to do about it?! not sell their human killing weapons abroad?! - Likely, either apply diplomatic pressure to the saudis and get them to stop doing these things to migrants or restrict what weapons they can purchase. Or other diplomatic consequences. - The Saudis know we need their oil, they don’t give a shit. The way we pander to them is pathetic & they know it. - Yet another reason to move away from fossil fuels as fast as possible. 
- The United States is a net oil exporter. What we want to do is keep them from getting nuclear weapons so that when their economy collapsed, terrorist groups don’t get H-bombs 
- Oil has nothing to do with it directly, but more the price of oil. OPEC has a huge influence on the global oil price. - The US is actually a net exporter of oil now, and Saudi Arabia makes up only 7% of the imports we do make. Canada is by far our biggest source of imports at 60%, followed by Mexico at 10%. - This wasn’t true before 2020 which is why you’ve seen Biden making more moves like this. We don’t need them as much now. - We do still maintain a diplomatic alliance with them to have access to the Persian Gulf though. 
 
 
 
- Biden administration wants to know if water is wet. More at 11. 
- What if they used American planes to kill Americans? 
- has it always been “name of president administration” in headlines rather than US government? or is this just a recent trend? or is there a difference between the two? - It’s always been that way. Some government officials are unelected and therefore not attached to any administration, this is called the “deep state”. But generally administration and government are used interchangeably. 
 
- Why do you need a investigation? - America makes the most weapons out of any country. - So many attacks can be linked to American weapons. 
- He knows the answer to this already. I suppose we must go through the motions to pretend it matters to us, though. 






