Posted on 04/20/2022 12:02:27 PM PDT by algore
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman shouted at President Joe Biden's national security adviser when he was pressed on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and said he would not help the U.S. out by pumping more oil.
The staggering decline of U.S.-Saudi relations under the Biden administration was outlined in a Wall Street Journal report
Last September, Biden National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met with the Saudi Crown prince, who goes by his initials MBS, at a seaside palace.
Sullivan brought up Khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist who was murdered in 2018 in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
MSB shouted at Sullivan in return and told him that he never wanted to speak of the matter again. And, he added, the U.S. could forget its request that Saudi Arabia increase its oil production, which the administration was pushing for to help bring down gas prices.
Saudia Arabia is irritated with the frosty reception it has received from the United States since Biden took office.
President Biden has refused to speak to MBS and has limited his direct conversations to the ailing and elderly King Salman, MBS' father.
Biden is said to see the king as his direct counterpart. But in Saudi Arabia, the king chooses his successor and Salman, 86, has handed de facto control of the country to MBS, 36.
Relations have been going down hill for months.
In March, it was reported the Saudis declined an administration request for a phone call with Biden, a report the White House denied. After the kingdom declined to talk to Biden, MBS held that March phone call with Putin.
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The left obsesses over the stupidest crap! Khashoggi had it coming!
So we further destroyed our economy over a non American reporter that we don’t know all the details about.
Genius.
The left is so delusional on foreign policy they can only lead us to disaster.
People don’t care enough about foreign policy. You can see the world situation coming unglued because of these idiots.
Smooth handling by a minion of the most diplomatically experienced President of our lifetime. Not.
We are governed by the very worst of us.
Ditto. You’d think Brandon would accidentally do something right, but alas no. Everything he touches turns to poo.
Khashoggi was writing fake news about the prince. He ended up sliced and diced.
So why does the Saudi Prince block Elon Musk at Twitter?
That was the wrong time to bring up a subject like that.
You wonder if Sullivan sabotaged his own diplomacy just so the Biden Admin could say the Saudis refuse to help us lower the price of oil. “We really, really tried!
Now we have no choice but to allow gas to go over $145. a barrel, or beyond.”
Even if Biden’s handlers didn’t have a bug up their asses about the death of the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Khashoggi, the Saudis still wouldn’t have opened the spigots due to their (justifiable) anger about the resurrection of the Iran nuke deal. But turning Iran into a nuclear power is near the top of the administration’s agenda. It appears non-negotiable.
I think that is a different Saudi Prince.
There are quite a few of them, each rich beyond measure.
Do Biden’s people know what happens when they go around poking hornets nests with a stick? I wonder.
As well he should.
And yes, I understand some of the human rights issues vis-a-vis the Saudis.
I also know that Kashoggi was an activist associate of the Muslim Brotherhood, writing as a supposed “jorunalist” but all the time promoting anti-Saudi themes of the Muslim Brotherhood.
And as much as I think poltiical assassinations are not the moral way for statecraft, I understand that the Saudis see the Muslim Brotherhood as an existential threat.
We “arrested” and detained terrorists at GITMA for years for much the same reason. Much more “humane” than the fate of Kashoggi, but “I get it”.
So we further destroyed our economy over a non American reporter that we don’t know all the details about.
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Best friends with bin Laden - need more details?
Wow, these guys really are the pros from Dover. They really know how to use diplomacy to cultivate good relations with our allies, right??!!
Everything he touches turns to poo.
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He scratches under his diapers, so his fingers are covered with it - could one expect different?
No, that will suffice.
. But turning Iran into a nuclear power is near the top of the administration’s agenda.
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While using the Russians as our negotiators on how much transshipped Russian oil the Iranians can export.
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