US aid to Saudi Arabia skirted Lend-Lease rules requiring Axis attack.

Evidence

The controversy around the aid stemmed from the fact that Saudi Arabia had not been attacked by the Axis powers, and the Lend-Lease Act was intended to support friendly nations that had. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 1146

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Blood and Oil’s argument about US petroleum dependency shaping foreign policy, extending the reader’s notes on oil-driven intervention. — connects to: Saudi Arabia’s UN participation was financed by the US oil company Aramco — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 138