Trip to Saudi Arabia, Biden’s last arrow in the dark.
According to analysts, the upcoming visit of the American president to West Asia is mainly caused by the domestic political crisis of the United States, which is tied to energy prices.
The trips of different American presidents to West Asia have been made in different formats and with different purposes, but Joe Biden’s upcoming trip to the region is mainly caused by the domestic political crisis of the United States, which is tied to the Ukraine issue and oil prices.
According to the analysis of the American magazine “Foreign Policy”, except for rare exceptions, West Asia has become a place where the ideas of the US presidency, especially big ideas, come to life, and the Biden administration, realizing this fact, tried during the last year and a half from stay away from the area; But finally, the Western energy crisis in the midst of the conflicts in Ukraine and inflation and the increase in gasoline prices in the United States has forced Biden to return to the region.
According to reports, Joe Biden is scheduled to travel to occupied Palestine, the West Bank and Saudi Arabia next week. He will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu in the occupied territories, and after traveling to the West Bank with members of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Emirates). Arabic) along with Egypt, Iraq and Jordan will participate in the summit of the Cooperation Council in Jeddah.
Joe Biden is also going to go to Riyadh in the most difficult part of his trip, which the White House tried to make it appear as a response to the invitation of “King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud”, the 86-year-old king of Saudi Arabia. In this trip, all eyes are on his meeting with “Mohammed bin Salman”, the Saudi crown prince and the de facto ruler of this country, which Biden promised to speed up the government under his command following the heinous murder of Saudi opposition journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The White House, which initially denied Biden’s meeting with Mohammed bin Salman, has finally confirmed that Biden will meet with the Saudi Crown Prince during his trip to Saudi Arabia, but according to “John Kirby”, the spokesman for the National Security Council of the White House, this meeting will not be bilateral. Biden will meet with King Salman and his team, which includes Mohammed bin Salman.
