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Is it ethically consistent for self-proclaimed feminist governments to maintain defense contracts with states that legally classify women as permanent legal minors?
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No.  

A government that calls itself feminist while selling arms to a regime that keeps women in perpetual tutelage is practicing the crudest sort of class-based hypocrisy. The deal rests on a simple swap: the Saudi monarchy guarantees oil, markets, and anti-Iranian alignment; Washington, Ottawa, London, or Berlin hand over the jets, bombs, and surveillance systems that keep the dynasty in power. The “feminist” label is then pasted over the transaction to placate a domestic electoral base, while the material effect is to fortify a social order that treats half its population as property.  

Ethical consistency would require the opposite: using every ounce of state leverage—embargoes, seizure of overseas assets, withdrawal of military technicians—to help the Saudi, UAE, or Qatari women now organizing underground, knowing that every F-35 part or “smart” bomb shipment tightens the monarchy’s grip. Anything short of that is complicity dressed up in gender-sensitive language.
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You are an AI assistant.
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Is it ethically consistent for self-proclaimed feminist governments to maintain defense contracts with states that legally classify women as permanent legal minors?
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