Saudi Arabia

I think they are to be considered as a rogue state indeed. They've got Europe by the balls since 1975 (the Strasbourg Resolution, text can be found here) and their ideology is hard or not to tell from that of ISIS.

^A global arms embargo would be the right way to deal with states that keep extreme religious views. But I would be surprised if the US or the UK would start such a thing. Moreover, the US see Saudi Arabia as an ally and they have played a lead role in destabilizing the ME.

Edited by someone_else - July 03 2017 at 05:35

If they ever need to test an atomic weapon again I would mind the royal palace in Riyadh... 

A modern day medieval dictatorship , led by a family who rule mafia-style. Their society has not contributed anything to the rest of the world outside of oil. Hypocrites as well, as the irrigation of once arid Mecca, Rhyad and Medina was entirely due to using Israeli technology and know how, via an Austrian front company. 

The poster boy for human rights.

siLLy puPPy wrote: Rogue state implies Saudi Arabia is acting alone. They couldn't engage in their crimes against humanity without arms sales from the US and tacit support from the world community

In the same way Iraq was supplied chemical weapons by the west, then branded a rogue state.

Of course, it's not clear what the actual definition of a roguge state is, I guess.

But Saudi-Arabia is an ally of the US [italics mine]. How is a thoughtcrime like this allowed on a US-based forum?

Saudi links to global terrorism

Edited by Blacksword - July 05 2017 at 03:50

^Trump made the remark during an interview with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, saying he respected his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

Edited by SteveG - July 05 2017 at 07:51

^ yep and he's right. Putin and Russia hasn't commited a fraction of the atrocities that the US has. Of course they have done their share of empire building at other's costs but the US has hundreds of military bases all over the world essentially for the fact of forcing countries to peg themselves to the US dollar. Russia is weak militarily but are brilliant in the scientific world. In fact one of the reasons that the capitalists are so afraid of Russia is 1) because their sciences are so advanced that they could crash the world economy if all the technological discoveries they have achieved were allowed to hit the market and 2) Russia is colluding with Brazil, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) to create an alternative currency that developing nations can adhere to instead of the dollar. This is having some effect as the Chinese yuan has been making serious ground. The days of US domination through the war machines is coming to an end and the rest of us who want to live in peace with our neighbors around the world can hopefully be proud of our country again but personally i find the whole notion of nation states to be obsolete and have no need to attach my identity to it.