However, the standoff involves far more than oil. In Riyadh, Prince Mohammed feels snubbed by Biden’s refusal to engage with him ever since he took office. The murder of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi by the crown prince’s security aides, the war on Yemen, the jailing of rights activists and the boycott of Qatar have made him a pariah to the administration.
Sir John Jenkins, a former British ambassador to Riyadh and a senior fellow at the UK thinktank Policy Exchange, said ties that had been growing between Riyadh and Moscow, particularly since Biden sidelined Prince Mohammed, would probably need to be recalibrated if a reset was to take place.
> In Riyadh, Prince Mohammed feels snubbed by Biden’s refusal to engage with him ever since he took office
ReplyDeleteFinish the sentence - especially since Biden has spent so much time trying to lick Iran's tuchus and give it everything it wants.
Biden is an idiot. If he gave a green light to XL pipeline he'd have no need to worry about Arabian or Russian oil but he won't because ecofascists can't standard North American oil. Arabian and Russian oil, it seems, isn't a pollutant.
Saudi Arabia killed 1 man who opposed their regime, and USA are treating them like a terror state. Iran kills thousands, and threatens to kill millions, and Biden is offering to remove their IRGC from the list of terror groups, in order to do a nuke/oil deal.
ReplyDeleteBiden wants his own Nobel medal so he doesn't feel the lesser man at parties he attends with Obama.
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