Only if they back down. Sweden criticized the KSA in 2015 similarly, and were forced to walk back their criticism. If the Canadians walk back their criticism, then yes, they will look weak. If they continue to walk their own line, then they won't.

The Canadians, to my knowledge, have only asked for the US/UK to be intermediaries. They've also become more entrenched in their original position.

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else get run over.

The KSA won't run over anyone without massive US support. MBS has made an authoritarian system even more authoritarian, and they have no room to walk back anything. The only countries that have come out supporting the KSA are Russia, Algeria, and if I recall, Pakistan. And it's odd that people say that this is an issue of sovereignty while also ignoring the massive amount of influence the Saudi lobby has in the US. The issues of sovereignty only work one way, seemingly.

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Posted by Muthsera

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Posted on 8/12/18 at 12:03 pm to crazy4lsu

I mean, a win for Canada is already out of the question. They already sent students back to KSA and medical patients to the US. How do you go back on that? They won't get KSA to apologize and they can't send the offending ambassador back to his post.

If a country had tried this on Trump, he would (for better or worse) blast them on Twitter, go on Fox and Friends to have a big laugh and tell them to kiss his arse, have a carrier group on their shore in 2 days, and a half dozen of their closest trade partners lining up sanctions within a week. Putin, Merkel, and others would be similar though less...ostentatious. Regardless, a leader in a position of power always dictates the conversation in a dispute. Canada isn't dictating jack shite right now.

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