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Disagreement of Partners: How Does the US Neglect Saudi Arabia?

Middle East:   Since the establishment of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, US President Franklin Roosevelt has signed an “oil for security” agreement on board the USS Quincy in 1945, and Mohammed bin Salman tried to revive this agreement in 2018.

 

Despite the great historical, cultural, and geographic differences between the United States and Saudi Arabia, the two partners established a strong alliance in several key areas, including confronting the communist tide, supporting the Cold War, and the implementation of American policies in Arab countries such as Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and others by Saudi Arabia.
 
Professor of Sociology and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Saif Dana, confirms that Saudi Arabia played a key role in the Cold War, providing the US with oil and responding to Washington's desire to play with prices, and funding major American projects, including the US intervention in Afghanistan at the end of the 70s.
 
Despite the US-Saudi relations, the administration of US President Joe Biden is seeking to rearrange its priorities related to the Middle East, especially with regard to the Saudi relations and its repercussions.
 
Washington withdraws missile defenses from Saudi Arabia
 
After the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and preparing for the withdrawal from Iraq, Washington is working to reduce the American presence in larger operating bases.
 
Satellite images by the Associated Press showed that the United States removed the most advanced missile defense system and “Patriot” batteries from the Prince Sultan Air base in Saudi Arabia in recent weeks, at a time when the kingdom is facing continuous air attacks from Yemen in response to the Saudi aggression.
 
According to Saif Dana, "Obama proposed to reformulate Saudi-US relations, and today US President Joe Biden is trying to rearrange US priorities in light of US-Chinese or US-Russian competition."
 
"Saudi Arabia now sees that the three presidents, Obama, Trump, and Biden have made decisions that indicate Washington's abandonment of them," Christian Ulrichsen, a researcher at the Institute of Public Policy at Rice University, told the Washington Post.
  
The director of the Institute for International Policy in Washington, Paulo von Chirac, offers a different view in an interview with Al-Mayadeen, saying that "since we are the largest supplier of arms to Saudi Arabia, the United States continues to maintain strong, vibrant and healthy relations with the kingdom."
 
Chirac believed that "the US does not need bases and legions in a region, because Saudi Arabia today represents a low importance region, so why should the US continue to distribute resources to regions that do not have strategic importance as before," stressing that "China is the first competitor to the United States."
 
Secret documents condemning the kingdom
 
A few days ago, the Federal Bureau of Investigation "FBI" began publishing some recent secret documents dealing with the relationship of Saudi citizens with two of the perpetrators of the September 11, 2001 attacks, after the FBI changed the classification of those documents that were classified as "secret".
 
The Washington Post, in a report, reported that the families of the September 11th victims issued a statement after declassifying some documents related to Saudi Arabia’s involvement, in which it said, “This matter today represents the moment when the Saudis cannot rely on the US government to hide the truth about 9/11, and the statement pledged "to hold the Saudi government accountable for the enormous pain and losses suffered by the families of the victims."
 
Hence, and with these complex data, the administration of US President Joe Biden is seeking to win over the families of the victims of the September events, by signing a decree to declassify documents related to Saudi Arabia's involvement in those events.

 

These documents, which were revealed by the CIA, are trying to provide evidence and proofs to the American courts with the aim of reviving The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) law, which implicitly allowed the filing of lawsuits against the Kingdom by the families of the victums, to be financially compensate with huge amounts of money from Saudi Arabia.
 
Saudi Arabia to the east
 
The decision signed by President Biden to unveil documents related to the events of September 11, coincided with the visit of the US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, to the Gulf, at a time when Saudi Arabia suddenly announced the postponement of Austin's visit, while receiving the Chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the Russian State Duma Leonid Slutsky.
 
About this, the Saudi Prince, Sattam bin Khalid Al Saud, tweeted: "The Great Saudi Arabia does not accept dictates from anyone."
 
However, the Pentagon justified the cancellation of Austin's visit by problems in timing and program, while such official visits are proposed to be scheduled for their timing and program weeks before their start.
 
In response to a reporter's question about developments in his plan to visit Saudi Arabia, and whether the visit has been postponed or canceled, Austin said: "Let's say it was postponed."
 
This comes in light of Saudi-American tension as a result of the kingdom heading east and strengthening its relations with Russia and China at a time when the Biden administration announced that its archenemy today is China, while working to repel Russian influence.
 
The US withdrawal from Afghanistan came on the impact of the visit of Saudi Deputy Defense Minister, Khalid bin Salman, to Moscow and the signing of a defense contract with his counterpart, Sergei Shoigu, and this matter strained US-Saudi relations.
 
And from time to time, "Israel" asks the administration of US President Joe Biden not to put pressure on Saudi Arabia with  human rights related issues and other issues, justifying this request that Saudi Arabia plays a key role in countering Iran in the region.

 

Translated from Al-Mayadeen
 

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