It's interesting that I agree with this part of the article below, because current Saudi Arabia must not be beholden to the CIA like they were in 2001, because they killed the cia spy khassogi in 2018. In 2001 they provided a patsy in bin Laden. I do not think they would do that today, even though that 2003 Iraq war helped them because saddam Hussein was their enemy, I think they learned that USA having permanent bases next door is worse, and the cia tries to start Arab springs to coup them.

"Should we now invade Saudi Arabia? The answer is no. The Saudi Arabia of 2001 no longer exists. The country is still capable of criminal action; witness the case of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, victim in 2018 of a team of Saudi murderers in Istanbul. But the Islamic extremism that coursed through central institutions of the Saudi state appears to have been largely exorcised. Few countries in the world have been so consistently misunderstood by the U.S. as Saudi Arabia, though, so that judgment is necessarily a provisional one."