Welcome to a Cytations Needed News Brief.

I am Neem Asherazi.

I'm Adam Johnson.

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And Joe Biden is in the middle of these hanging out with our favorite human rights abusing

regimes.

And yet, all we hear time and time again is that it's probably necessary that these are

our best allies because you know what Adam, we can influence them for good from the inside

by being their friend.

Oh yeah, we'll get to that one.

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I wrote about what I call the sort of human rights concern theater, harkening back to actually

Cytations needed episode eight from September of 2017.

It's what we call a reoccurring theme.

Right.

So every like three, four years, five years, the president of the United States going back

to since I was before I was born, they visit Saudi Arabia and they codify a long existing

geopolitical relationship in the Middle East.

Only a few things which will go over, which is the US support of Saudis bombing in Yemen,

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