Introduction by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio
Although I do not agree with all the positions expressed in the article, especially in relation to the judgments on the war in Ukraine, I think it useful to share this article published by The Soufan Center, an American center for geopolitical and intelligence analysis.
In it emerges the cynical attitude of the United States of America which, in order to support the war on energy materials triggered by the sanctions against Russia, is willing to court one of the worst criminals in world politics: the plenipotentiary heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Mohamed Bin Salman.
Although the Arab OPEC countries have already distanced themselves from the oil dispute between Russia and NATO countries, US President Joseph Biden will go to court MBS in hopes of gaining support that the Saudis have already given to the American corporations of the Weapons Lobby with a major war material purchase agreement in November 2021.
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Precisely during the Biden administration documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation were declassified, highlighting heavy suspicions about Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. To this was added the barbaric killing of the journalist of the Washington Post Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul but also a disturbing role in the attacks carried out by ISIS in Easter 2019 in Sri Lanka.
Could MBS not know about all this? Biden probably thinks so. Or he’s turning out to be the most cynical man on earth.
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IntelBrief: U.S.-Saudi Relations Reset
by The Soufan Center
NB All links to Gospa News articles has been added after by Editorial Staff
- Reversing his previously held position, U.S. officials have announced that President Biden will travel to Saudi Arabia in order to meet with Mohammad bin Salman (MBS).
- U.S. officials have decided to downplay the abuses and failures of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) in order to ease pressure on the global energy market.
- Saudi support for a ceasefire in the Yemen conflict facilitated the U.S. shift toward direct engagement with MBS.
- The fundamental common interest in containing Iran continues to underpin U.S. – Saudi relations.
Over the past month and a half, exchanges of high-level visits between the United States and Saudi Arabia had been laying the groundwork for a recently announced trip by President Biden to Riyadh. During the visit, President Biden will meet with King Salman and the controversial Crown Prince and de-facto leader Mohammad bin Salman (MBS).
The July 15 visit will follow a stop in Israel, which is not only a key U.S. partner but has also been expanding ties to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states. During the visit, President Biden will also meet with leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The early summer exchanges included a visit in May by the Saudi deputy defense minister, MBS’ younger brother, as well as visits in June by the Saudi ministers of commerce and of investment. A White House delegation went to the Kingdom in late May to discuss the planned presidential trip, as well as a range of issues including the global energy market, Iran, and the conflict in Yemen.
Shifts in global and regional geopolitics encouraged a U.S. reset of relations with MBS. In large part because of MBS’ role in the October 2018 killing of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, President Biden has sought to avoid dealing with MBS directly, instead choosing to engage with King Salman. But marginalizing MBS has become untenable as world oil prices have spiked as a result of U.S. and European sanctions against Russia for its illegal invasion of Ukraine. Due to his declining health, most international leaders meet with King Salman as a formality but conduct substantive diplomacy with MBS.
The Crown Prince is clearly the de-facto leader of the Kingdom and the main decision-maker on Saudi energy export strategy. The shift toward direct engagement with MBS has been facilitated by his support for a ceasefire in Yemen, which has been extended for an additional two-month period to early August as the Saudi Crown Prince potentially seeks an exit ramp from the conflict.
MBS and his close ally, UAE leader Mohammad bin Zayid al-Nahyan (MBZ), entered the Yemen conflict in 2015 to counter Houthi rebels backed by Iran, but the war caused a humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen and had begun to turn U.S. opinion against MBS well before the Khashoggi killing.
Still, because MBS has not been held accountable for that killing or other transgressions, there is still substantial opposition to rehabilitating MBS within U.S. policy circles and key U.S. constituencies. Although clearly reluctant to do so, President Biden’s decision to travel to Riyadh in order to visit the royal court shows how reliant the U.S. is on Saudi Arabia as a regional partner and source of energy stability.
Despite the vast ideological rift between the two leaders and their governments, it is clear that U.S. officials view the Kingdom – and MBS as its de-facto leader – as key to their efforts to reduce world oil prices – considered the main contributor to a 40-year high in U.S. inflation. Saudi Arabia has typically maintained nearly 2 million barrels per day of spare oil production capacity, although its current spare capacity is believed to be closer to 1 million barrels per day. Still, Saudi spare capacity, as well as that of the UAE, could be put on the market quickly and could almost immediately reduce world oil prices from their current $120 per barrel valuation.
Reducing prices would also serve Saudi interests: Saudi policy has historically sought to keep prices from escalating too far too fast – a result that would spur cuts in Western consumption and increase investment in alternative energies. Encouraging more domestic U.S. oil production represents an alternative U.S. strategy – but one which will not likely have an immediate effect because of the lead times required for more U.S. oil to be produced. Yet, some argue that the United States should not engage dictatorial and abusive oil-exporting regimes such as those in Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Venezuela to address the problem of high world oil prices.
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The U.S. decision to engage with MBS also reflects, in part, the still solid fundamental pillars of U.S.-Saudi relations. The Kingdom remains under a U.S. security umbrella, and U.S. arms sales and military deployments to the Kingdom have been largely unaffected by the frosty relations between the two governments.
The Kingdom continues to look to the United States to deploy technology to intercept Iranian missile attacks – either launched from Iran itself or by any of Tehran’s proxies. Neither MBS nor any other Gulf leader expects that the one-year-long Saudi dialogue with Tehran will produce any significant breakthroughs that reduce the threat to the Gulf posed by Iran. And, the poor performance of Russian forces in Ukraine has demonstrated to MBS and other Saudi leaders that Russia is not an alternative to the United States as the Kingdom’s primary security partner.
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If President Biden proceeds with the visit, it is likely that the discussions in Riyadh will focus on the mutual interests that have enabled U.S.-Saudi relations to weather previous disputes -rather than on the mistakes and transgressions MBS has committed that have caused significant tensions in the relationship. The reversal will come at a reputational and moral cost for the Biden administration, especially in light of the recent decision to disinvite autocratic leaders from last week’s Summit of the Americas. Realpolitik appears to have prevailed again.
Originally published by The Soufan Center
NB All links to Gospa News articles has been added after by Editorial Staff
The Soufan Center (TSC) is an independent non-profit organization offering research, analysis, and strategic dialogue on global security challenges and foreign policy issues, with a particular focus on counterterrorism, violent extremism, armed conflict, and the rule of law. Our work is underpinned by a recognition that human rights and human security perspectives are critical to developing credible, effective, and sustainable solutions. TSC fills a niche role by producing objective and innovative reports and analyses and fostering dynamic dialogue and exchanges, to effectively equip governments, international organizations, the private sector, and civil society with key resources to inform policies and practice.
Fabio is Director and Editor of Gospa News; a Christian Information Journal.
Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio, born on 24/2/1967 in Borgosesia, started working as a reporter when he was only 19 years old in the alpine area of Valsesia, Piedmont, his birth region in Italy. After studying literature and history at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, he became director of the local newspaper Notizia Oggi Vercelli and specialized in judicial reporting.
For about 15 years he is a correspondent from Northern Italy for the Italian newspapers Libero and Il Giornale, also writing important revelations on the Ustica massacre, a report on Freemasonry and organized crime.
With independent investigations, he collaborates with Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza in important investigations that conclude with the arrest of Camorra entrepreneurs or corrupt politicians.
In July 2018 he found the counter-information web media Gospa News focused on geopolitics, terrorism, Middle East, and military intelligence.
His articles were published on many international media and website as SouthFront, Reseau International, Sputnik Italia, United Nation Association Westminster, Global Research, Kolozeg and more…
His investigations was quoted also by The Gateway Pundit, Tasnim and others
He worked for many years for the magazine Art & Wine as an art critic and curator.
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None of those Saudi citizens can be proven to have boarded any of the planes that the 911 Commission say attacked the WTC and the Pentagon. In fact they can’t even prove that any planes attacked their targets. Many of these alleged “hijackers” were mysteriously resurrected after allegedly dying in a fiery plane crash. Saying that the Saudis did it deflects from the fact that it was an Israeli operation carried out with the help of American traitors. Cui Bono? Israel.
Also there is rumours Biden will provide to MBS a price discount of bone saws Made in USA instead Made in China If he need to purchase one new
I’m sure Biden will not do that. But you can bet your ruble that the buddy of your messiah, yeah that MB whatever, will ask Biden to bring down the new street sign in front of the Saudi embassy in Washington that he just put up that says “Jamal Khashoggi Way,” saying that Trump would take it down if he could.
Oh, just to add. MBS wasn´t the one finnancing and arming nazi´s in Ukraine so they could commit mass gemocide over russian speakers!
“In it emerges the cynical attitude of the United States of America which, in order to support the war on energy materials triggered by the sanctions against Russia, is willing to court one of the worst criminals in world politics: the plenipotentiary heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Mohamed Bin Salman.” This man never whiped out 500 thousand of childrens with the excuse of WMD, how can he be one of the worst criminals? He, cpntrary to the US president´s only have invaded Yemen and have created one of the worst human rughts violations in this century but one can´t even compare it with the one´s commited by Exzceptionals from Iraq, Syria Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan and …………, Does the wrighter realy knows what is going around the world to call this american vassal what should be named to he´s own leaders?
“The July 15 visit will follow a stop in Israel, which is not only a key U.S. partner but has also been expanding ties to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states.”
When our “key U.S. partner” nukes us as they did on 9/11 and forces us into all the wars of this century, the sins of Mohammad bin Salman pale by comparison. Every US president, including Trump and Biden, have known this and have had to do the little dance like an organ grinder’s monkey. Almost certainly Putin knows this as well from satellite imagery on that horrible day. That’s why he smiles and shakes his head as the U.S. accuses him of war crimes.
Exactly! All the war crimes and terrorist activities US presidents have committed throughout history is effed up. They DO NOT pay for their crimes,, never have and never will.
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