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November 26, 2024
Saudi Arabia does not deserve an American security guarantee
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As Jennifer Kavanagh of Defense Priorities recently argued, partnering with destabilizing actors such as Saudi Arabia will further entangle the U.S. in the Middle East. The U.S. has already contributed to a moral hazard by arming the Saudi Arabia-UAE coalition in its initial 2015 Operation Decisive Storm aerial bombing campaign on Yemen, thereby becoming complicit in killing thousands of civilians.
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Jennifer
Kavanagh
Senior Fellow & Director of Military Analysis
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