Think fast because this is exactly what is happening with Saudi Arabia. Just this week the kingdom pressured the Netherlands, and other European countries, among them France, a member of the UN Security Council, to abandon calls for a full inquiry into human rights violations in Yemen.

„By failing to set up a serious UN inquiry on war-torn Yemen, the Human Rights Council squandered an important chance to deter further abuses,“ Philippe Dam, its Geneva deputy director, said in a statement.

Powered with money and new-found political confidence, Saudi Arabia has managed to not just silence but bully both the UN and western powers into compliance.