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The PGA merger is about much more than just golf its about imagery, it's about money, it's about power and it's about the capacity of Saudi Arabia to project its influence through money and hydrocarbons, both in the region and abroad.
The Saudis understand the limitations of an American security guarantee.
Russia and China have emerged as key players and don't expect a kind of fidelity of relations between the US and Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia and Iran say they have a new deal following negotiations hosted by China. The agreement revives a security cooperation pact.
A U.S. ally is a country with which the United States shares common values. Clearly authoritarian and repressive governments are not allies of the United States. Saudi Arabia is not an ally.
What the Saudi Crown Prince did was literally undermine President Biden's political position, certainly in respects to oil prices, weeks before the midterms and at the same time undermine the international community's position in an effort to isolate Vladimir Putin.
Democrats have Saudi Arabia in the crosshairs, outraged at OPEC's slashing its oil output by 2 million barrels a day. Now there`s legislation in Congress to pause all weapons sales to the Saudis. Aaron David Miller, former State Department analyst, talks about if the U.S. could have leverage over Saudi Arabia.
The Saudis got everything they wanted and they controlled the narrative. They put out the fist bump photo within minutes
The tone of this meeting should have been very different.
It's true, one picture is worth 1000 words. In this case it's probably worth $1 million. The Saudi's basically got what they wanted and so did Mohammed bin Salman.