When they said America had less than a month of diesel reserves left something like this was almost guaranteed.
I don’t care about Jamal Kashoggi’s death and can’t be made to care that a foreign government executed a spy working for an adversary just because that foreign spy had a green card and occasionally had some material printed in the Washington Post.
The Saudis are a brutal government and have been for a hundred years. Life in the desert is brutal. Brutal governments commit atrocities all the time and we look the other way all the time, just like the other governments bite their tongues about our government’s drone strikes on civilians.
“a foreign government executed a spy working for an adversary”
That is well put.
It is even more significant that the adversary in question, the Muslim Brotherhood, has a history of terrorist attacks and assassinations of political figures. They are existentially hostile to the Saudi regime.