we’ve armed the Saudi dictatorship to the teeth, and more so.
they are no friends of USA
Not enough for a veto override.
They are going to regret that vote if the Iran thing blows up.
Can’t defense companies sell to whomever they wish?
The Saudis will remain “friends of convenience” of U.S. administrations, until the Shia Islam regime of the Mullahs in Tehran implodes and is replaced with a true Iranian secular-democracy. Then the Saudis will be one of only two major uber fundamentalist regimes in the Middle East, both Sunni - the Saudis and Erdogan’s Turkey. Then U.S. policy will shift.