Spent 5 years in the Kingdom. You are correct that we have very important strategic interests there. Saudis have the world’s largest supply of exportable oil. And the House of Saud has been helpful to us in ways the general public is unaware of.
Biden has been holding up arms sales to the Saudis. Big mistake. They will just buy what they need from the French, UK, China, Russia, etc. We should help the Saudis in their conflict with Yemen, which is being used as a surrogate by Iran.
Iran could be pressuring Biden to pull back from the Saudis in return for renewing the Iran deal. Wendy Sherman gave us the bad deals in North Korea and Iran and she played a role in the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
I see Yemen as a proxy for Iran also.
Through ignorance, I see the Biden group as driving other
nations right into the Chinese camp.
Even Israel is now doing business with China.
People carped and complained and denigrated anyone who
thought there was purpose in Afghanistan, and haven’t the
slightest clue they were pulling a Jimmy Carter all the
while.
Afghanistan is a place that was never going to be perfect,
but it could be a lot better than it could otherwise have
been.
Well we’re out of there. Now some of the worst terrorist
breeding grounds on the planet, are now under our enemy’s
control. The Taliban are present in Pakistan too, and now
that nation is under direct threat > IMO.
Yeah, we’ve just armed them and set them loose on the
region.
China is eyeing using the lost air base as a base of
operations in the region. This will change the dynamics
of the Middle-East. It brings China even closer to
Europe.
We just surrendered in Afghanistan, put Pakistan in jeopardy,
changed Middle-Eastern dynamics, and put Europe in jeopardy.
Early on Saudi Arabia is now vulnerable since the air
defense system has been taken away.
If someone were trying to harm U. S. standing in the region,
they couldn’t have done a better job of it.
Meant to thank you for your comments.
I do agree with your take on things.