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More defeat for America, more benefit to the CCP.
It's as if Biden and crew hate America and do the bidding of Xi and the CCP.
Oh, and convenient, wasn't it, that several banks suddenly were closed by the Feds and have dominated the news just as this story was breaking?
Now the Saudis have fully repaid Biden for his spitefulness, and then some.
The announcement late last week that China had brokered a diplomatic breakthrough between Iran and Saudi Arabia is alarming but unsurprising.
The deal between these two longtime antagonists could culminate in the restoration of bilateral diplomatic relations after years of tensions and even periodic hostilities. U.S.-based foreign-policy analysts are duly concerned by this setback to America’s strategic efforts to foster the development of an anti-Iranian bloc of nations in the Middle East, to say nothing of the way America was sidelined.
Some Middle East observers are cautiously optimistic about the deal. It could provide Riyadh cover to proceed with integration into the loose confederation forming around the Abraham Accords, they say, and it puts Beijing’s prestige on the line if Iran violates the deal’s protocols. Nevertheless, a Chinese-led reorchestration of regional relationships is an ominous portent.
No one should be shocked by any of this, least of all the Biden administration. From Day One, this White House made it a priority to alienate the Saudi government, and it succeeded.
As a candidate, Biden pledged to treat the Saudi government like “the pariah that they are.” In its approach to relations with the kingdom, the administration and its allies in Democratic politics deferred to the press corps, which was outspokenly incensed by the Saudi government’s involvement in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “The president’s intention, as is the intention of this government, is to recalibrate our engagement with Saudi Arabia,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki assured reporters. And that’s precisely what they did.
In its first weeks, the Biden administration froze arms sales to the Saudis and the United Arab Emirates and withdrew U.S. support for the kingdom’s “offensive operations” in Yemen — a brutal and often inhumane conflict against an Iranian-backed rebel group on the Arabian Peninsula.
The administration made a performance out of its efforts to isolate Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country’s de facto leader. The White House declassified intelligence implicating bin Salman in Khashoggi’s death and released an FBI report compiled in 2016 indicating that Saudi nationals, one of whom enjoyed diplomatic status, had a “closer relationship than previously known” with some of the 9/11 hijackers.
The Biden White House initially regarded the Abraham Accords with bizarre hostility and leaned into the notion that there could be no enduring peace in the region without a resolution to the many outstanding issues in the Palestinian territories (all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding). “While we support normalization between Israel and countries in the Arab world,” State Department spokesman Ned Price clarified, “it’s also not a substitute for Israeli–Palestinian peace.”
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It's as if Biden and crew hate America and do the bidding of Xi and the CCP.
Oh, and convenient, wasn't it, that several banks suddenly were closed by the Feds and have dominated the news just as this story was breaking?
Now the Saudis have fully repaid Biden for his spitefulness, and then some.
The announcement late last week that China had brokered a diplomatic breakthrough between Iran and Saudi Arabia is alarming but unsurprising.
The deal between these two longtime antagonists could culminate in the restoration of bilateral diplomatic relations after years of tensions and even periodic hostilities. U.S.-based foreign-policy analysts are duly concerned by this setback to America’s strategic efforts to foster the development of an anti-Iranian bloc of nations in the Middle East, to say nothing of the way America was sidelined.
Some Middle East observers are cautiously optimistic about the deal. It could provide Riyadh cover to proceed with integration into the loose confederation forming around the Abraham Accords, they say, and it puts Beijing’s prestige on the line if Iran violates the deal’s protocols. Nevertheless, a Chinese-led reorchestration of regional relationships is an ominous portent.
No one should be shocked by any of this, least of all the Biden administration. From Day One, this White House made it a priority to alienate the Saudi government, and it succeeded.
As a candidate, Biden pledged to treat the Saudi government like “the pariah that they are.” In its approach to relations with the kingdom, the administration and its allies in Democratic politics deferred to the press corps, which was outspokenly incensed by the Saudi government’s involvement in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “The president’s intention, as is the intention of this government, is to recalibrate our engagement with Saudi Arabia,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki assured reporters. And that’s precisely what they did.
In its first weeks, the Biden administration froze arms sales to the Saudis and the United Arab Emirates and withdrew U.S. support for the kingdom’s “offensive operations” in Yemen — a brutal and often inhumane conflict against an Iranian-backed rebel group on the Arabian Peninsula.
The administration made a performance out of its efforts to isolate Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country’s de facto leader. The White House declassified intelligence implicating bin Salman in Khashoggi’s death and released an FBI report compiled in 2016 indicating that Saudi nationals, one of whom enjoyed diplomatic status, had a “closer relationship than previously known” with some of the 9/11 hijackers.
The Biden White House initially regarded the Abraham Accords with bizarre hostility and leaned into the notion that there could be no enduring peace in the region without a resolution to the many outstanding issues in the Palestinian territories (all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding). “While we support normalization between Israel and countries in the Arab world,” State Department spokesman Ned Price clarified, “it’s also not a substitute for Israeli–Palestinian peace.”
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The Biden White House Drove the Saudis into China’s Arms | National Review
Now the Saudis have fully repaid Biden for his spitefulness, and then some.
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