No more 'Pariah' state as Biden seeks help from the Saudis as gas prices skyrocket

[Utilit99 4,099]

biden needs help from the Saudis to manage the US problems he caused.

I remember biden campaigning on how he was going to be the great one that will bring the unity of the left and right in this country. Build back better!!!

If getting on your knees and begging to the Saudis is better than having energy independence, then the times truly have gone haywire.  

 

JERUSALEM – President Biden is slated to make his first trip since taking office to the oil-rich nation of Saudi Arabia in July, with what some observers say is the goal of reducing gasoline prices for consumers and confronting Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

U.S.-Saudi relations have hit a historic nadir. Earlier this year Saudi Arabia reportedly refused a request from Biden to speak amid rising oil prices due to Russia’s war in Ukraine. Mohammed Khalid Alyahya, a visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington D.C., noted that the first thing to be done was "Fixing a relationship that has been beneficial for eighty-years to the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. It has not reached a low worse than recently."

To broker a rapprochement with Saudi Arabia, Biden will have to abandon his campaign pledge to treat the kingdom as a "pariah" state after it, according to the CIA, carried out the assassination of Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi in its consulate in Istanbul.

 

"There’s no way around the fact that the Saudi trip marks a reversal of President Biden’s original effort to downgrade the bilateral relationship while humiliating and ostracizing Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman," John Hannah, a former national security adviser to Vice President Cheney, told Fox News Digital.

Hannah, a senior fellow at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) stated the visit was "a major climb down for the administration that’s been forced on them by $5 per gallon gasoline prices, raging inflation, and an accommodationist policy toward Iran that has reached a dead end."

Hannah continued, "All of the virtue signaling of the administration’s first few months in office, aimed at making good on the president’s campaign promise to turn the Saudis into pariahs, might have made the Democratic Party’s progressive left feel good," but he said Biden’s playing to the progressive constituency "backfired miserably when it came to serving U.S. national interests."

He added that "it poisoned relations with the Arab and Muslim world’s most influential country to a point where it wouldn’t even take a call from the President of the United States in the middle of a European crisis (the Ukraine war) that posed the greatest challenge to the American-led international order in the past 30 years."

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Ali Al-Ahmed, the director of the Washington D.C. based Gulf Institute said Biden's decision to visit the Kingdom will be seen as, "one of the biggest mistakes," made by a U.S. president. Noting that Biden, who had called the Saudis a "pariah," is showing weakness to friend and foe alike.  

"Now American allies in the region are going to say maybe we will copy what MBS is doing. If he can bring the American president to his knees we can do that too." 

Al-Ahmed stated that, "the impact of this capitulation is strategic as it will encourage Putin in Russia and Xi Jinping in China to become more aggressive with a president who was outwitted by (the) young MBS."

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pariah-state-biden-seeks-help-saudis-gas-prices-skyrocket

 

[TimmySmith 2,782]

But what about Kashoggi? 

[Utilit99 4,099]

10 minutes ago, TimmySmith said:

But what about Kashoggi? 

The front of the T-shirt biden will wear says: "Hail Crown Prince MBS"

The back of the T-shirt says: "Khashoggi who?" 

[Hardcore troubadour 12,905]

41 minutes ago, TimmySmith said:

But what about Kashoggi? 

That happened under Trump. It served its purpose. RIP. 

[NorthernVike 2,080]

I hope PGA players come out against this and call him a rebel.

[RLLD 3,539]

Hold on, if Biden is blaming the oil companies for not producing enough, then why is he begging the Saudi's for more oil? 

[Utilit99 4,099]

46 minutes ago, RLLD said:

Hold on, if Biden is blaming the oil companies for not producing enough, then why is he begging the Saudi's for more oil? 

Because they are a pariah state. Duh. His words, not mine. 

[Cdub100 3,442]

We were energy independent just two years ago...

 

[RLLD 3,539]

22 minutes ago, Utilit99 said:

Because they are a pariah state. Duh. His words, not mine. 

He labeled them pariah to virtue signal about the Kushoggi murder, at least on the face of the situation. But his movement to embrace Iran ticked them off as well.

It's no wonder they hate him, not that the Saudi's are great people mind you. They are the lesser of two evils is all.

But he has told us fuel costs are the Putin tax, then he says no its greedy oil companies not refining, and now its the Saudi's not producing.  He needs to make up his mind to where it will be that he pretends its not his own failure. 

[Hardcore troubadour 12,905]

If only we had a way to get the Canadian oil to our refineries. Like a pipeline maybe? They should try that. I bet the Canadians would give us a better deal.  Also, they don’t chop peoples hands off there and women have been driving for decades. 

[Utilit99 4,099]

18 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

If only we had a way to get the Canadian oil to our refineries. Like a pipeline maybe? They should try that. I bet the Canadians would give us a better deal.  Also, they don’t chop peoples hands off there and women have been driving for decades. 

[Fireballer 2,423]

28 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

If only we had a way to get the Canadian oil to our refineries. Like a pipeline maybe? They should try that. I bet the Canadians would give us a better deal.  Also, they don’t chop peoples hands off there and women have been driving for decades. 

He told us who he was in the debate..."transition away from fossil fuels".  

[DonS 3,086]

I hope the Crown Prince makes Biden bend the knee and kiss his rings. 

 

 

[Hardcore troubadour 12,905]

20 minutes ago, Fireballer said:

He told us who he was in the debate..."transition away from fossil fuels".  

That’s what he said. He lied. And not your everyday politician lie. This one counts. 

[Utilit99 4,099]

25 minutes ago, DonS said:

I hope the Crown Prince makes Biden bend the knee and kiss his rings. 

At this point biden will suck his cack willingly. He needs someone to throw him a bone.