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That's not what the polls in the US shows; 2/3rds have a mostly or very unfavourable opinion of SA: https://news.gallup.com/poll/1624/perceptions-foreign-countr...

frankly, if people are so uninformed they think Saudi Arabia is run by the good guys the odds are more likely they're so uninformed that they don't know Saudi Arabia is an American ally.

Are you sure that you’re not an average person? I think most people understand that Saudi Arabia doesn’t operate to the standards of Western republics.