My Views.

I always wanted to bring something up, bring up here and elsewhere online. The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (which I still think fate drew me to in the U of M Mardigian library in 1988) clearly says “Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.” Which means (I believe—but anyone feel free to correct me) that being an evil dictator, or having a corrupt government or being beholden to another state is no excuse. You have to provide your people the basic human rights of life. Which also include economic rights like universal health care and basic dignity rights. Which is why Saudi Arabia introduced universal health care in 2019, providing free healthcare its citizens. Also, I wanted to add most European countries refuse to have anything to do with Saudi Arabia basically, which accomplishes nothing IMO. The US has full relations with them. Because they are a very important ally against terrorism. And although we don't condone their human rights abuses or treatment of women, we probably get more done with that by having full relations with them. Again IMHO.

Also I might as well add. Someone (possibly the man I'd never vote for, George W. Bush) brought up a good point. When you use sanctions against a country for human rights abuses, you're just harming their citizens. For example, I just read online the Saudi Arabian ruling royal family is worth about $1.4 trillion. They are one of the wealthiest families in the world, with wealth surpassing the combined net worth of billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. And sanctioning Saudi Arabia, for example, would have little effect on them.