They “were given specific coordinates of targets that should not be struck,” Malinowski told the Times, “and they continued to strike them.”101 This, despite the fact that in 2017 the Trump administration initiated a $750 million program focused on training the Saudis on how to avoid civilian casualties—money that ought to have given Trump leverage in holding the Saudis to account for civilian deaths, as it could have included benchmarks to measure progress and provisions to withhold new military aid if those benchmarks went unmet.102 Without such benchmarks, the Saudis and Emiratis have been
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