Posted on 06/11/2022 10:08:15 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Nearly three years after promising to make Saudi Arabia a "pariah," President Joe Biden is set to extend an olive branch to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman following months of reproach.
The White House confirmed Monday that Biden will visit the oil-rich nation this summer, the culmination of an 18-month rollercoaster that started with Biden ostracizing Crown Prince Mohammed, commonly known as MBS, and ends with his administration trying to win back MBS' affections as gas prices soar due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Attempts by US officials to convince the Saudis to pump more oil have been unsuccessful so far, with MBS reportedly ignoring Biden's phone calls about the issue.
In a direct showing of how much the US wants Saudi Arabia's help, Biden may personally ask MBS to up oil production at a meeting between the two, Axios reported.
The Biden White House has long kept the kingdom at arm's length, refusing to meet with MBS and effectively demoting him by saying that his ailing father, Salman, is Biden's opposite number. The US also sanctioned several dozen Saudi officials following a declassified intelligence report into the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi, which the CIA concluded was likely ordered by MBS.
A visit to Saudi Arabia signals that, for Biden, it is no longer tenable for the US to estrange a partner over ideology, when more pressing matters like oil threaten US stability, experts told Insider
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If only we had a domestic source of oil we could tap.
“Biden is ripping up his plan to ostracize Saudi Arabia as the US desperately seeks a way out of its oil crisis” - but is stuck on stupid because he can’t buck his own Leftists and ditch the attacks on the American fossile fuel industry.
Biden and his Leftists are stuck in the dilemna of their own hypocrisy. They don’t mind asking other countries to increase “their carbon footprint” to get more fossil fuels onto the global markets, while they simultaneously try to throttle down those same things in America’s domestic markets. It’s not only hypocritical its duplicitous.
The consequences of idiotic deep-state, neocon foreign policy are coming ever-quicker.
They occur almost immediately now, which overall, is a good thing.
Biden is so superficial. All that is necessary to lower gas prices is to allow drilling where it was when he came into office.
The PGA Tour and its commentators, just spent several weeks bashing the Saudi backed ( with huge amounts of money to top players) LIV golf Tour. Even though players were given exceptions to play IN Saudi Arabia itself as recently as Feb 2022, any PGA Tour player who just played in England is kicked out of the PGA Tour. All supposedly because of Saudi Human Rights violations, especially Kashoggi. Seems rather hypocritical.
Globohomo doesn't like Saudis or Russkies but they still depend on them for fuel.
Biden is doing NOTHING. His handlers do it all.
Why any country or any individual would have their assets in the US is beyond comprehension.
He isn’t seeking shit. Feigned concern /lobbying. Everything is going just as planned.
If I was MBS, I’d CUT production just to stick it to old Joe.
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