Two and a half years after his campaign vow to make Saudi Arabia’s leaders “pay the price” for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, Biden is reportedly planning to visit Riyadh in the coming days.
to directly penalize MBS for his role in the Khashoggi killing or the humanitarian nightmare in Yemen.
“Applauding MBS’ ‘courage’ for supporting a ceasefire in a war the Saudi crown prince himself started — and to use that as a pretext for the presidential meeting — speaks to Biden’s desperation to lower gas prices, as well as to our need to end this dependency on Saudi Arabia,” said Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
“Rather than rebuilding relations with Riyadh, Biden’s hat-in-hand approach will likely exacerbate the longstanding problems in U.S.-Saudi relations,” Parsi warned. “It will increase our dependence on the kingdom, which has long given its rulers carte blanche to act against American interests in the Middle East and beyond.”Sunjeev Bery, executive director of Freedom Forward,that “it makes no sense to strengthen Saudi Arabia’s oil dictator in order to stop Russia’s oil dictator.
“The planet is on fire,” Bery added, “and Biden is about to reestablish relations with one of the key arsonists.”
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