The blow-up with Saudi Arabia reveals a new American strategic weakness

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The blow-up with Saudi Arabia reveals a new American strategic weakness
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all Semites together,” the Saudi minister for foreign affairs smoothly replied, after President Richard Nixon informed him that while his envoy, Henry Kissinger, was Jewish, “a Jewish-American can be a good American.” Mr Kissinger was angry at the president but pleased the Saudi made no mention of oil during that meeting at the White House in October, 1973, as the Arab-Israeli war raged.

Then the pandemic waned and the war in Ukraine began. Petrol prices surged. “Pariah” started to seem like too strong a word. After much debate within his administration, Mr Biden decided to travel to Saudi Arabia, where he fist-bumped the crown prince and then met with him. Yet at the moment only Democrats seem to be upset at the Saudis. Republicans are upset at Mr Biden. The reason is that Saudi Arabia disclosed that the Biden administration had requested the cut be postponed for a month. Biden administration officials insisted they were asking the Saudis to wait to see if the price of oil would indeed fall. But a delay would also have averted the danger of a sharp price rise at the pump before voters went to the polls.

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