Saudi Arabia is about 35 million (about the population of California), while Iran is about three times greater in population. For decades the Islamic game in the West has been quite like the European game. Sucker the "world policeman" for protection, and sucker the "dependent" petroleum users for sales. And expect that the game will continue.
A Saudi that "loves America" and still remains a Saudi doesn't "love America." If America stands (stood) for liberty, then the closed and cosseted Saudi Arabia is its antithesis. That the writer says he "loves America" and is published in the Jerusalem Post does not prove a thing. The millenua-lonf rift in Islam between Sunni and Shia puts Saudi Arabia (this government ninety years old) against other "recent" and very rich governments who want to keep their Shia nemesis under control using -- of course -- the US as their protectors.
So the Saudi says America is "dismantling the pillars of its own empire?" Really? The Saudis who ran OPEC and gouged America under Carter? What empire?
As with giant and yet feckless NATO pushing eastward to poke the Russian bear, Islam -- Sunni and Shia alike -- would happily continue to use the USA as policeman and patsy.
For a short time under Trump, America became an energy exporter, and the Democrats managed in short order to close that down.
--- "We are not the only ones questioning what the heck the Biden Administration is doing."
Indeed. But for decades under Democrats and RINOs, US energy Independence was promised but not delivered. Comes a disruptor like Trump and we see American energy independence for a short period of time. The Saudis and Russians and Chinese and "green" Europeans alike could did all they could to overturn, and install Biden. Think this is Biden alone? It is a world against America's liberty and independence. And still they all want our trade and protection in some manner.
Covid worked to help topple Trump and make China richer. The Russia-Ukraine conflict -- the Left in the Obama time would have called it a 'kinetic action' -- is making military manufacturers richer through reorders and more. Islam in the Middle East wants to sucker us one more time. See a pattern here?
From the article:
This past weekend, Secretary of State Antony Blinken joined a conference in the Negev, hosted by Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and attended by a number of Arab foreign ministers. Blinken used this occasion to paper over the rift that the nuclear deal has created by presenting an image of regional solidarity, but the region is not deceived.
Sold disingenuously to the American public as an arms control agreement, the deal is an assault on the regional order that the United States established in the aftermath of World War II. Explicitly hostile to Saudi Arabia, to say nothing of America’s other greatest ally in the region, Israel, the deal replaces the former American-led regional security structure with a concert system in which Iran, backed by Russia and China, becomes America’s new subcontractor while America’s former allies—the Gulf States and Israel— are demoted to second-tier status.
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Also, the Biden administration, like the Obama administration, are in solidarity with the Mus.im Brotherhood....
Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states are also concerned about the Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoots seeking to remake states in the Middle East. Other Arab states such as Jordan, Egypt and Sudan are trying to keep domestic Islamists at bay.
Turkey and Qatar push its Sunni revolutionary ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood throughout the region.
Saudi Arabia’s Council of Senior Scholars last week labeled the organization a terrorist group, saying it did not represent Islam and only seeks “to grab the reins of power.”
The council added that the group wreaks havoc and commits “violence and terrorism.”
Saudi Arabia and the UAE designated the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization in 2014
The Saudis and Emiratis are suspecting that Democrats can create an atmosphere that enables the rise of the Brotherhood in the Sunni world like a decade ago. This is, in my view, what they see as a threat similar to the threat from Iran, if not a bigger one,” he assessed.
The Obama administration had supported the organization and invited its leaders to the White House. It also had criticized the ouster of former Brotherhood Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi by the military in 2013.
Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other status quo powers would not want a Biden administration to warm up to the Muslim Brotherhood.