It is so ironic, "Global Pariah", I remember Biden openly bragging last year that he would only speak to the King and refuse to speak to MBS. And now it is Biden who was begging for a call with MBS (which MBS snubbed) and going to there to make amends. The way the US deals with its so-called "allies" is essentially a one sided emotionally abusive relationship, where the moment you are no longer useful or an inconvenience to them, you are immediately dropped and pushed aside, and the moment they need you again, they expect you to run back to them as if nothing happened, because everyone obviously would want to be with them. Maybe now the US learns the hard way that like in real life, that doesn't work forever, although usually people like this don't change.
Anyway, from a Human rights standpoint maybe the Biden admin deserves a little credit, because it actually put in a tiny bit of effort for a year and (slightly) reduced military cooperation and offensive weapons sales with the Saudis, until they had to change course due to gas prices. As opposed to the Europeans which manufactured faux outrage at how Trump gave a free pass after Khashoggi, but in reality never reduced Saudi relations and
went to normalize MBS some time ago.
