A Terrible Week for Saudi’s MBS Shows Tide is Turning

Expand US President Donald Trump shows a chart highlighting arms sales to Saudi Arabia during a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, March 20, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File In a powerful rebuke to the Trump administration and a strong signal to Gulf states, the US Senate voted yesterday, 53 to 45, to block arms sales worth billions of dollars to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), among other countries. The vote came on the heels of a landmark court decision in the United Kingdom resulting in an immediate…

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