Biden has been bending over backward for Iran. He really wants a new nuclear deal. He has removed defenses from neighboring countries to make Iran feel safer and it appears there is not much he wouldn’t do for the country whose leadership hates us. But while he is kissing the grond Iran walks on, he has been alienating a crucial middle eastern ally, Saudi Arabia.
It was a momentous development in the rapidly changing geopolitical environment of the Middle East and received zero coverage in the corporate media in the United States. When Greece steps up to fill the vacuum left by a US pullout, it gives you a measure of just how far the United States has retreated from the world stage over the past nine months.
This is not the Greece of Alexander the Great, but today’s Greece. Nearly bankrupt just a few years ago, Greece has now replaced the United States as the defender of the world’s largest oil producer. Ouch.
Team Biden has been upset with Saudi Arabia from day one. In February, they admonished the Saudis for their war against the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in neighboring Yemen and cut off pending US arms deliveries to the Kingdom. They also snubbed Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman for his involvement in the grisly murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi, a Qatari-aligned Saudi dissident.
While the crown prince is certainly no angel, Biden’s decision to outwardly alienate the Saudis has real-world implications. With the US turnover of Afghanistan to the Taliban, another Qatar-ally, a pattern is beginning to emerge: This administration foolishly prefers Sunni Muslim jihadis and Iranian mullahs building nuclear weapons over traditional allies of the United States who oppose a nuclear-armed Iran.”
But Biden seems to be mastering the art of alienating real allies.
He made the U.K. wary about any future military actions while he is in office because of Afghanistan, he made Canada concerned after he called Australia our closest ally, he has snubbed Israel on numerous occasions, and then he disrespected the South Korean President, who did us a great kindness. Biden is hurting our relations with our allies while he panders to Iran and laughs off the threat of China. And we are stuck with him for another three years.