7 June 2022, Tuesday
US President Joe Biden said a while ago:
"#SaudiArabia 🇸🇦 is an important strategic partner, whether at the regional or international levels"
Biden greatly praised the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and the Crown Prince for their leadership role in the truce in #Yemen 🇾🇪
This is the third consecutive speech in which biden praises through in Saudi Arabia
But wait, what does Biden want from Riyadh, and what does Riyadh want in return?!
Before the 2020 US presidential elections, Biden's candidacy file was based on hostility to all President #DonaldTrump's moves, whether through the economic confrontation with #China 🇨🇳, his historical relations with Riyadh, as well as Trump's lack of toughness in the face of dictator #VladimirPutin, in addition to his desperation to conclude a nuclear agreement with the Islamic Republic of #Iran 🇮🇷
What happened to get Biden to repeat what Trump was saying?!
The #US 🇺🇲 faces inflated numbers in oil prices in addition to very high inflation rates, in addition to the high prices and lack of supply in food chains, as America witnessed a shortage of infant formula, which forced it to buy an urgent quantity from #Germany 🇩🇪
Biden is running out of time in the face of the midterm elections next November, and in the current circumstances, it is expected that the Republicans will regain control of the two chambers of Congress in a way that will make the president in the position of a lame duck!
President Biden and his administration could not achieve any of the goals he promised before the 2020 presidential elections and with the barbaric Russian invasion of #Ukraine 🇺🇦 President Biden and his administration were trapped in a very narrow corner What forced him to go to Riyadh and court His Highness, the Saudi Crown Prince, Prince #Mohammad_bin_Salman, who has no savior but him, as Biden needs to convince the Saudis of the need to produce additional quantities of oil in the market
Riyadh, in turn, believes that the market does not need to pump more oil unless there is a huge offer from Biden that tempts it to do so
Biden hopes to achieve two strategic goals in Riyadh:
1️⃣ Reducing Saudi relations with #Russia 🇷🇺 and China, which have increased over the past few years
2️⃣ The signing of a peace agreement between Saudi Arabia and #Israel 🇮🇱 and Biden hopes that this peace will be almost free
These two goals are not urgent because they are a strategic plan to support the Democratic Party in the 2024 presidential election
So, Biden's immediate goal is oil prices
On the other hand, Prince Mohammad bin Salman wants from Biden two points, and he is not in a hurry. The two goals are as follows:
1️⃣ Closing the case of the killing of the Saudi citizen #JamalKhashoggi and accepting the measures taken by Riyadh in the case and closing the case forever
2️⃣ Mohammad bin Salman wants an official written agreement from the US to ensure the defense not only of the kingdom, but of the Arab region in the future, this is similar to the historical agreement concluded by the late Saudi King #AbdulazizAlSaud with the late US President #FranklinRoosevelt, and it is similar to the protection clauses in the North Atlantic Organization (NATO) treaty
Here, Biden is faced with difficult choices, he needs Riyadh urgently and immediately, while Riyadh is not in a hurry, as it has several keys
Such reasons require Troy from both the American and Saudi institutions, and require shuttle work, and above all, they need to provide guarantees and great confidence, whether from Washington or Riyadh.
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