Saudi Arabia, Biden and the Oil Connection
It is truly amazing just how American politics shakes out sometimes, and to watch the spectacle of elected office holders try to sling mud at each other over hot button issues like petroleum, because what usually happens is all the mud gets thrown back and forth, yet the only ones who get dirty are the American voters. Case and point our current Biden-made situation with rising fuel prices is a perfect example of two political parties at war with each other. Oh, there are those who are trying to say this is just how it is, but we need to look back at what Donald Trump did when he opened up the U.S. oil production, so the United States was producing, and selling its own oil, prices at the pump were a third, and in some areas a fourth of what they are currently.
Now enter Saudi Arabia. We have always bought oil from the Saudis, at least since roughly 1938 when the largest source of petroleum was discovered in the kingdom. And we will continue to buy oil from Saudi Arabia, even if we ever get back to our own oil independence, the world runs on oil, and until the human race can find a viable alternative that is a cheap, and abundant, and reliable, oil is it. We also have to think about building back our Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and we will need Saudi oil to do that.
This current situation we find ourselves in is because the different political ideologies of our two parties are trying to outdo one another, you have Democrats who are doing their best to protect President Biden for the nasty sharp spike in gas prices, and some Republicans who are trying to tear down the veil Biden is hiding behind and show what a buffoon he really is and that the basic understanding of world economics is beyond his mental grasp. The only part where the two sides agree is they both blame Saudi Arabia for the current situation.
Republicans blame the Saudi’s for basically price gouging, claiming they are just trying to get richer, and Democrats are trying to say that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is trying to ruin Biden over politics, what a joke. Prince Salman is not playing politics; he is acting in a manner that is “Pro-Saudi Arabia” like any good leader would do for his/her country, his outlook is for his own people he doesn’t care about American politics.
He and many in the Saudi government are responding to a few things that have gotten under their skin in the last few years. Before President Biden went begging the Crown Prince to not only sell us more oil, but he had the audacity to ask “pretty please with sugar on top” if the oil rich country would mind dropping the price as well. That was insulting.
It wasn’t that long ago that Biden referred to Crown Prince Salman as a murderer and a butcher after the Jamal Khashoggi slaying, and this is after we cut the amount of oil we were purchasing under Trump, now we are crawling back begging? Pathetic and embarrassing. What did President Biden expect when he visited The kingdom, to be met with open arms?
We also have to remember that President Biden has been involved in one of the most grave of threats to Saudi Arabia ever in its history, a nuclear Iran. First as a member of the Obama administration, which sought to go easy on Iran, and even indirectly helped to get Iran closer to being a nuclear power. Let’s not kid ourselves, Iran is not looking for clean sustainable energy, so its citizens can have a better life, Iran wants a nuclear weapon. One it can use to wipe Israel off the map, and then have another one so the rogue nation can intimidate and threaten all of the middle east and parts of Europe.
So, looking at this from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s perspective, would anyone in his position be welcoming to someone like Joe Biden? I think not, because here is a president who on one hand is all smiles and nice to your face, but ready to stick a knife in your back the second you turn around. And then there are all the Democrats, and some Republicans too, who years past have laid down in bed with the Saudi government only to chastise the nation now openly for causing Americans pains at the pump, when in reality it is those same politicians who have caused the problem, they are trying to send the blame not just to the middle east, but specifically on Saudi Arabia.
I do not blame Saudi Arabi or Crown Prince Salman one bit for being upset with the Biden administration and at those Democrats who are support, because putting aside the blame about Khashoggi and the insulting remarks about oil production, a nuclear Iran is a very scary thing to have on the loose, and Joe Biden is showing just how irresponsible he is by not putting a stop to it. If the Biden administration would work hard to keep any nuclear material out of the Iranian’s hands, I’m sure that would go a long way to warming up relations with Saudi Arabia, (and much of the middle east for that matter) and at the same time might help, or at least maybe make the Saudi’s more open to helping out with oil production and pricing.
But for the foreseeable future, until Democrats, and some Republicans, get on board with keeping Iran at bay and stopping them from going nuclear, we can only expect things to get worse, our only hope is that the political winds change here in the U.S. and the pendulum swings back in our favor, because the alternative for the world is a bleak outlook.
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