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Autoc­ra­cy: con­cen­trat­ed pow­er in the hands of a few. The U.S. is linked to a net­work of Arab autoc­ra­cies led by sul­tans, emirs, and mil­i­tary dic­ta­tors who are called allies” and part­ners.” Pol­i­tics and eco­nom­ics make for strange bed­fel­lows. Per­haps none is stranger than the one with the feu­dal régime of Sau­di Ara­bia. The Washington/​Riyadh axis goes back to 1945 when FDR met King Saud on a U.S. destroy­er in the Suez Canal. The deal was struck. The U.S. would pro­tect the Saud monar­chy and in return, Amer­i­can cor­po­ra­tions would have access to Sau­di oil­fields. In the decades since ties between the two coun­tries have remained close. Today, the U.S. has been sup­port­ing the Sau­di-led war in Yemen, which has result­ed in almost 400,000 dead and mil­lions hungry.