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The West has to bite its lip for Saudi oil

16 March 2022

10:11 PM

16 March 2022

10:11 PM

It would be ridiculous to claim that Boris Johnson’s visit to Saudi Arabia is not morally problematic. He is going to a country which held a mass execution for 81 people this weekend – a record number – and to visit a man who US intelligence blames for the brutal murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

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