‘Al Qaeda Is on Our Side’: How Obama/Biden Team Empowered Terrorist Networks in Syria
Tag: Jake Sullivan
Russia, Ukraine, and the USA: Trapped in a Cultural Script
US stops asking Saudi Arabia to pump more oil, report says
US stops asking Saudi Arabia to pump more oil, report says
The US-Saudi relationship has long been underpinned by the exchange of US arms and security guarantees for access to Saudi oil. But that relationship has reached a breaking point, officials told The Journal.
MBS is upset with Biden’s refusal to recognise him as the de facto ruler of the kingdom, Biden’s rhetoric on the country’s human-rights record, the US failure to guarantee its security following a string of attacks led by Houthi rebels in Yemen, and the revival of the Iran nuclear deal.
After the administration released an intelligence memo blaming MBS for the murder of Washington Post and MEE columnist Jamal Khashoggi, the White House appointed Defence Minister Lloyd Austin as the point man for MBS, while Biden maintained he would only deal with King Salman. [That’ll show him! Send in the Raytheon salesman!]
Biden has yet to meet MBS – or his father, King Salman – in an official capacity. Now, Saudi officials have told The Journal that not even a state visit would be enough to resolve the tensions.
Regime Change in 1…2…3…🤷🏼♀️
Ukraine Negotiation Kabuki
Response to Yellen’s “blatant threat to China” over Ukraine + Republican and Democratic Senators made a surprise trip to Taiwan
The Pimps of War
The coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East and who have never been held to account are now stoking a war with Russia.
The Pimps of War
U.S. ‘Intelligence’ Says Its ‘Intelligence’ Is Bullshit
Thursday, 7 April 2022 — Moon of Alabama
U.S. ‘intelligence’ folks tell their stenographers at NBC News that their obvious lies are obvious lies.
U.S. ‘Intelligence’ Says Its ‘Intelligence’ Is Bullshit
U.S. training Ukrainian troops in Poland, Biden seems to reveal
Fixing a previous gaffe in a Monday press conference, the president appeared to let slip an undisclosed detail of the U.S. effort to bolster Ukraine’s fighting forces.
U.S. training Ukrainian troops in Poland, Biden seems to reveal
THE ANGRY ARAB: What Arab Media Is Saying About Ukraine
THE ANGRY ARAB: What Arab Media Is Saying About Ukraine
The Gulf regimes feel Putin is more loyal than the U.S., and the mischievous behavior of UAE and Saudi Arabia in the last few weeks is an expression of their frustration with U.S. role in the region. (Riyadh, for instance, is in talks with China to trade some of its oil in yuan, which would deal a blow to the U.S. dollar that is used in 80 percent of world oil sales. Until now, the Saudis have exclusively used the dollar. And Emirati and Saudi leaders have refused to take Biden’s phone calls.)
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The UAE had long planned to become the new Israel in the region, but Qatar may have won that dubious honor. The Russian-Ukrainian war may lead the U.S. to further overlook those regimes’ despotism and atrocities in return for continued acts of loyalty.
US Recklessly Eyes China as Target in Economic War
US Recklessly Eyes China as Target in Economic War
Adding China as a target of its economic war could drive the populations of the U.S. and Europe against their own governments instead.
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