Remember Mr. Biden’s promise, during his presidential campaign, to make Saudi Arabia “a pariah” — and not only because of the Khashoggi assassination? Saudi Arabia treats domestic dissidents harshly and continues to wage a destructive war in neighboring Yemen, though a tentative U.S.-backed cease-fire is currently in place. Mr. Biden began his term by making public U.S. intelligence confirming MBS’s role in the Khashoggi case and refusing to deal directly with the crown prince. But Mr. Biden did not impose an asset freeze and U.S. travel ban on MBS, as he could and should have done. Furious nevertheless, MBS refused subsequent outreach from the president and snubbed U.S. requests to help alleviate rising oil prices by pumping more Saudi crude.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...-crown-prince/
Callinectes (05-23-2022), Sailor (05-23-2022)
Callinectes (05-23-2022)
Prince Khalid bin Salman of Saudi Arabia is hardly a household name but should be notorious. As the oil-rich kingdom’s ambassador to Washington in the fall of 2018, he assured journalist and Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi he could safely collect some papers he needed at the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul, according to CIA analysis that has been reported in The Post. Khashoggi went in but never emerged; he was murdered by Saudi agents. The then-ambassador may not have known that Khashoggi would be killed. Wittingly or not, however, he subsequently falsely told various news outlets, The Post included, that the Saudi government had no idea where Khashoggi was. Khalid bin Salman denies that he told Khashoggi to go to Istanbul. His credibility in Washington badly damaged, he returned to Saudi Arabia in February 2019.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...-crown-prince/
Callinectes (05-23-2022)
geopolitics. regional alliances.oil
https://www.vox.com/2016/1/6/1071972...-arabia-allies
The United States is Saudi Arabia's second largest trading partner, and Saudi Arabia is one of the United States' largest trading partners in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia is the third leading source of imported oil for the United States, providing about half a million barrels per day of oil to the U.S. market.
https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-saudi-arabia/
cancel2 2022 (05-23-2022)
Correct. And trump colluded with S.Arabia by way of a faux 'threat' to pull back military defense unless S. Arabia cut oil production.
trump viewed every foreign/domestic policy through one of two lenses:
How can I personally benefit financially?
How can this help me get re elected?
He openly bragged about saving oil industry jobs when he pressured Mexico to cut production, or the U.S would.
Not only does that not make sense, it didn't work at the voting booth.
Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
christiefan915 (05-22-2022)
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