It is too late for Biden to save America.
The efforts of US President Joe Biden’s administration to return the country’s relations with Saudi Arabia to its normal course, through the successive dispatch of high-ranking officials to Riyadh, have so far failed. Biden is trying to separate the crown prince of Saudi Arabia from the axis of Russia, China, and Iran by presenting attractive packages.
“Abdul Bari Atwan”, a leading analyst of the Arab world, wrote in his editorial in Rai Al Youm newspaper: Since the beginning of this year, there has not been a month when a high-ranking American official does not travel to Saudi Arabia with a package of tempting proposals. America’s efforts to return strategic relations with Saudi Arabia to its natural path and reduce the influence of China and Russia along with the normalization of relations between Riyadh and Tel Aviv have failed.
Thomas Friedman, a New York Times reporter and writer close to US President Joe Biden, recently wrote: Biden is seeking to achieve a big deal in the Middle East by signing a security treaty with Saudi Arabia based on the model of the NATO treaty that Washington supports Riyadh and equips Saudi Arabia is using new weapons against the normalization of relations with the Zionist regime. Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, wants a joint defense agreement, the achievement of a peaceful nuclear program and the purchase of advanced weapons.
It seems that Biden has moved too late to regain his country’s lost influence in the Middle East. When Jake Sullivan secretly went to Saudi Arabia, he waited a few days to meet the crown prince of this country. Bin Salman was kind enough to meet with Sullivan for a few minutes, but according to an Arab diplomatic source, he did not agree to US requests to suspend relations with Iran and cut political and economic ties with Russia and China.
Saudi Arabia no longer needs America, whose hegemony in the Middle East has declined and is struggling with various internal and external crises. This country does not need a joint defense treaty with the US, especially after the defeat of the country in the battle of Ukraine. It can also acquire a peaceful nuclear program and new weapons through Russia.
