Lorcan Murphy: This is awful, and I suspect there are a few more US allies who do similar things. This ought to be a focus of serious pressure diplomacy or otherwise cost regimes who do this.

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This is awful, and I suspect there are a few more US allies who do similar things. This ought to be a focus of serious pressure diplomacy or otherwise cost regimes who do this.

I would imagine the Saudis are pretty deep into this kinda stuff

Definitely one of the other countries where there’s some evidence.

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