Joseph Westphal, former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, discusses U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to the kingdom.
Blinken’s visit to Saudi Arabia isn’t about oil, says former U.S. ambassador
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Keep dreaming… you won’t get much out of this. Your decline has created a vacuum that has shifted power in the region. Good riddance US of A
It’s all about preventing Saudi Arabia from joining BRICS
is there going to be any change to America’s strategy to build and sustain relationships?
I don’t think so
Depends on who need who more
American is not well welcome in that regions as usual . Cause the middle east golf regions including Arabs world are tired of having America in there regions . They want to develop a good relationship among themselves and by having American beside is always a problem and hatred , violence amongs people . Ukraine war exposed more and more about American attitude .
Why must you trying to have a good relationship with non democracy country ? Money . Money .
American . uhh. If . Mr. Putin call American and give out some opportunity to have some access for some oil company in Russia . American would turns down the game immidiately and even help to get ride of Zelensky . But Mr. Putin would not do that cause he’s a Wise Man . Saudi executed men in One day and no One says anything about it . Money. Money . They’re best people on Planet .
You support pedophiles and cop killers ? I’m not surprise coming from you.
Isn’t Saudi Arabia a pariah nation?
If Saudi Arabia was considered a pariah nation, why would the USA be so desperate to mend ties with it.??????
It’s not about OIL. It’s about supporting the European Colonial Occupiers in PALESTINE
How can Jews be occupiers in the historical land of Jews.
Lol, if anything Arabs are occupiers in this land.
Blinken is part of problem not the solution.
Dedollarize dedollarize dedollarize! The USA is over! The dollar is over! The world is changing its course! The nations of the East are rising and the West is setting for a real dark cold future! No more love for the lying stealing and cheating USA telling the world what to do! Oh happy day, dedollarizing the USA!🙂😂👏👌💰💰💰💰👌!
Our national interest?😂 We are living in a delusional state of mind thinking that our national interest is all over the world and on China’s borders and between Taiwan and China and thinking that we owned oceans of the world 😂😂😂😂 our national interest is extremely delusional and destructive for the rest of the world 😡😂!
🧜♀The British and USA provoked the Russians to a war in Ukrainian by killing 14 thousand Russian children, women, and older man in the DONBAS area. The Ukrainian people are been used by NATO, in a PLANNED PROXY WAR AGAINST RUSSIA. Do the people of Taipei, TAIWAN know they are next to be used by USA-NATO IN a PLANNED PROXY WAR against CHINA? The USA is arming Taiwan to give their Government the allusion they can win a war against China. Think, In 2014 Obama&Biden through the PENTAGON & NATO started the Ukrainian war by given military training to 900 thousands Ukrainians and put lot of weapons including biologic weapons labs in Ukraine to exterminate the Russian and their promising economy as it was intended in China with the COVID19, These Bio-weapons give the Ukrainian Government the allusion they could win a war against Russia, but, most if not all of that 900K are now dead. TAIWAN will suffer the same destiny their island will be destroyed, except they get rid of their corrupt senator and president🧛♀
THE WHITE HOUSE IS SUDDENLY OK WITH SAUDI PRODUCTION COSTS? BECAUSE THE OIL BELONG TO THE SAUDIE’S AND NOT TO MR WHITE MAN. THIS IS THE PROBLEM WITH THE WEST. OPEC CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT. THE OIL DOES NOT BELONG TO THE U.S. THE WEST NEEDS TO START RESPECTING OTHER NATIONS.
THE REST OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH IS TIRED AND FED UP WITH OUR DOMINATION ABUSE AND TYRANEY. WE ARE ONLY REAPING WHAT WE HAVE SOWED.
This dude talks about the Saudis persuing their own national interests and America its own. This dude is only saying that because the Saudis are holding all the cards. When Saddam And Libya tried doing the same,it was regime change. The Saudis have signed military pacts with China and Russia.Additionally,the Saudis can pull the rug from under America by saying it no longer will accept payments for oil in US dollars.America is like a dog trying to get back in good standings with its master.
Biden is a crook, he declared Saudi’s Arabia as Pariah state and then he goes back on his own word. How can you trust Biden’s admin or USA.
Saudi Arabia will be joining BRICS and ditch the US dollar for the new reserve currency based on gold not toilet paper.
Let’s guess. Is it to discuss how Syria’s Assad is back in the Arab League, or that Biden has forgotten Jamal Khashoggi? Hug a cut-throat time!
American B.S. as usual!
blinkens role in USGOV racketeering is pandering masquerading coercion and brainwashing. his words are scripted by corruption and arrogance. blinkens forked tongue is the voice of desperation procured by the mental stigmata of a corrupted “democracy”
🥾🏳️⚧️🇺🇸🏳️🌈👞 تقلع بس
lol US intetests span from korean to horn pf africa cuz its global hegemonic psychotic empire hellent on maintaining its global hegemony
the usa only think of there own financial gain within a day saudi cut oil they send a tosa over the usa has no other business in others countries ,the tyrant USA has been found out .that ship is SINKING.
What happened to democracies vs autocracies?
We have to work with those willing to work with us.
@Farzana 🇺🇸 and those not willing?
@kirgit We don’t work with them. Then it’s us against them.
@Farzana 🇺🇸 including going to war for what you described as self styled democracies pushing their narrative and ideologies by force
USA is the past. China is the future. Not only for the Muslims but instead for the entire humanity.
They are criminals Saudi forgot already Bush killed millions across the middle east and he is doing business with those maniac
Blinken’s job is to promote Israel. Few months ago he went to Indonesia urged them to establish relations with Israel. What a shame. Of course Biden or America has no sense of shame when it comes to Israel. Israel’s interest is America’s interest.This visit is also is to promote Israeli interests with Saudi. But Saudis have found their strength and interests.That is why rapprochement with Iran happened.This nut Blinken wants to wreck it but will not prevail
The US keep going round the world extorting countries from having friendly relationship with other countries that the US considered as foe or adversary in order to maintain US influence over the regions.
The US creates chaos and anarchy in Iraq and Libya leading to the collapse and total destruction and displacement to the people in the country.
The US using the same tactics and invaded Syria.
The US is escalating tensions in the Middle East.
The US is seizing a large part of Syria and siphoning and stealing oil from Syria thus depleting Syrians from their rich natural resources to developed their own country.
The US is controlling the Persian Gulf through the threat of war and confrontation and promoting the Saudi Arabia-Iranian conflict and encouraging Saudi Arabia to build a gulf of Arab coalition confront the Iranian and seeking to isolate the Iranian.
China and Russia is offering a peace alternative as the world is fed up with American militaristic hegemony.
It is the end of US military domination of the Persian Gulf.
The countries in the Middle East is determine to move away from the US with Saudi Arabia reestablish relationship with Iran as well as having ties with Syria.
Saudi Arabia will no longer allow US to dictate their policy and what is to their best interest and countries in the Middle East can peacefully coexist with Iran.
The Middle East is liberating themselves from the US and to remove the US driven animosity created by the US and begin to work together.
The world and the Middle East are tired of being dictated by the US rules based International order that the US made up and sought to impose on other countries to suits US interest and US foreign policy.
The Saudi Arabia, Iran and other countries are now trying to bypass the US dominance and its military hegemony.
The US is subjecting other countries into Cold War political rivalry between the US and Russia and now between the US and China which the US considered China to be an adversary or foe to US interest and US foreign policy.
The US has an annoying habits of entangling other countries in its geopolitical tension to enforce full submission and comply fully to US interest and US foreign policy.
The US is not interested in other countries interests except to its own primacy as the only superpower and forcing other countries to comply to US interest.
The US strong-arm tactic to enforce full compliance to US interest with regime change has been the modus operandi all over the world.
The US is a bully and is a hegemonic power and by its own exceptionalism creates chaos and destruction and imposed regime change all over the world to force other countries to submit to US interests and US foreign policy.
The US is full of mischief by creating trouble and exerting its power and hegemony all over the world.
Every countries want to see peace in the region rather than getting themselves involved in US geopolitics thrust upon them so forcefully.
Mike Pompeo who served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2017 to 2018 and as the 70th United States secretary of state from 2018 to 2021 has famously said that the US cheat, steal and lies to suit US interest in a public forum.
The US wanted to see an open conflict happening in China and will take every opportunity to enforce US interest and US foreign policy in order to force China into submission by imposing US hegemony and US primacy.
Who is creating an open conflict and outright hostility on China and trying to stir up trouble for China?!?!
What has China done to deserves such an unwarranted attention from a belligerent US to force China to comply to US interest and full submission to the US foreign policy!!!
Double-dealing, fraud, subterfuge, trickery and outright lies is the order of the day as far as the US is concerned.
The US foreign policy consists of bullying, coercion, chaos and finally invasion of other countries.
The US enforce totally capitulation on other countries to US interests and US foreign policy.
The US is nothing short of a tyrant and an oppressor to other countries around the world.
The BWH is so focused on its survival they are grovelling begging for help thats for sure You dont have to be Einstein to work that out 😂😂😂
War mongers!
Irony, Blinken should be named “Security of State” instead of “Secretary of State” as he voiced his concern on security in Middle East. He is visiting to KSA in order to establish relationship between Israel and Saudi while Biden Administration itself is not keen to reset its relation with Saudi. Every time USA went to Middle East with the pretext of security concern, it ended up disastrous and messing up. The bald eagle cannot be trusted any longer and not anytime at all.
How about SA applying to join the BRICS and what about the announcement, that they want to create a Petro-Yuan and get rid of the Petro-Dollar? I think, that these are the main reasons to speak about for your Government with the Saudis.
But I don´t think, that will help you. Your Government did to much damage other the past hundred years to the rest of the world, only because you want to be the Superpower (or more precise: the Empire ruling the World).
And your Government also destroyed our Gas pipelines (NorthStream 1 and NorthStream 2), which is an illegal and aggressive act. You don´t have the right, to destroy the energy supply of other, even allied countries. And also please tell your Government to stop their other illegal actions in Germany.
So I hope really, that Saudi-Arabia stays strong and they stay to their course, for De-Dollarization. Without money, your Government can´t finance war and terror in the rest of the world any longer. And then I hope, we enter in a new peaceful era without regular wars.
US interest in the region has always been;
1. to ensure security of its proxy state i.e. Israel.
2. Find a market to sell its fancy toys (weapons).
Arabs mean nothing to those in Washington. Good to see Saudi’s and other Arab states learning to play the game. Never put all you egg in one basket.
These Imperial Colonial Dictator Authoritarian Totalitarian hegemony mentality power, are now focusing in Asia 🌏 against China, once again wanted to break up China so that they can invade Russia. So, countries in Asia once again their play ground of Imperial Colonial agenda. Especially like Philippines, Thailand and Singapore, also to a certain extent Vietnam. India are known to be opportunists like Pakistan.
China has fought two opium wars against those Imperial Colonial exploiters. CPC has managed to liberate CHINA in 1949. But ceded HongKong to the British and Macau to the Portuguese for a 100 years lease. China territory was ceded to these Imperial Colonial exploiters due to corruption, that’s the reasons why President Xi go after corrupted leaders with punishment even to the extend of death penalty.
US and Western countries and Japan (Gangster 7 + NATO) are using China Taiwan province, DPP Tsai separatist to disrupt the peace in Asia to breakup China.
Soviet union was broken up due to weak or corrupted politicians and leaders. That’s the reasons also why President Putin also go after those corrupted oligarchy and politicians. 😮😮😮😮
They must be planning another 9/11 then.
This visit of America is to crack again in Iran and Saudi Arabia
😂 yes of course
Did he apologies for calling them apariah?
No. He didn’t. He won’t.
🍴China brings prosperity, investment and unconditional help to all the nations of the world. The British, France and Unite States bring weapons, war and destruction to all the nations of the world and after the destruction of your country the monarchy the elite used the USA-British-France-ARMY to secure the robbery of your country natural resources.🏺
It about USA to reinsert herself in the MIDDLE EAST.
Dying Beast .
“When the shadow of the US shrinks, the Light of peace rises.”
Everybody has one (A shadow) & needs peace too
The Hegemonic US and its world domination of 77 years is in a panic mood as more and more countries are joining the multipolar multilateral no-boss peace-loving common-prosperity world in the coming weeks months and years
What a load of horse shit coming out of any American official’s mouth, especially this one.
The relationship is lost. Saudi has chosen China and BRICS
But you & I know it’s a roundabout way to re-tweak the need to heal old wounds (Oil ones)
If Biden get on his knee and beg for forgiveness for calling Saudi, a pariah state publicly then may be just may be Saudi would consider mending the relationship.
Stop feeding upon fractures and schism. Also, stop obsessing over condemnation or outright damnation. From time to time you have to work with people you disagree with. This is true in many aspects of life itself. Preserve our futures in care for one another and not in damnation. For there is NO future in the latter.
“Not about oil.” Cue the John Candy meme as an animated GIF: Oh sure, sure.
bullshit…..it is always about oil and allowing the US to dominate
May God protect you, Prince of Saudi Arabia, on the way to a future of peace and security for the people of the region ❤️🇸🇦🇺🇸🇮🇱
We don’t need our natural enemy we welcome chine middle east has no place zionst 😂😂😂😂😂
yeah its about ALIENS
If US press sats it is not about oil for sure its about oil 😂 its obviously about liberal values and democracy in middle East 😂😂😂
It’s about anglos and Jews. Now watch me get censored even though I didn’t say anything negative, explicitly!
So Blinken went to tell them to not listen to senile Biden😅
In my silly opinion, this is about Iran’s nuclear weapons. So US has to determine Nuclear strategy. I think US should not trust SA or Iran to refrain from nuclear attack of Israel, and should be prepared to neutralize their nuclear capabilities if they attempt to launch nuclear weapons against Israel.
everyone is aware what national interest of usa is in middle east to keep bombing and destroying and keep middle east and arabs in poverty on behalf of israel.
US need 800+ billion $ from Saudi in the name of PGA.😂
Yes. Its about survival.