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A superpower doesn't go to war over an isolated assassination of (with all due respect to the victim and his family) some random rich kid. Casus belli is invoked only where there was a pre-existing ambition. I don't think the US have any ambition to take over Saudi Arabia, when they couldn't even run Iraq.



You don't need to go to war. But you certainly also don't need to defend them. See how the UK responded to the Skripal case or Litivenko.




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