The Blinken-Biden team is bungling yet another issue of immense magnitude. Blinken is busy trying to do damage control “to mend President Joe Biden’s increasingly strained relationship with Gulf states.” But it isn’t working.
The US is now debilitated under an administration that has proven to the world that it is a featherweight. Israel, meanwhile, has been building relations with friendly Arab countries in continuance of the Abraham Accords, after being disappointed by the Biden Administration. Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the arrival in Israel of Arab foreign ministers to address their common foe, Iran, and the disastrous Biden Iran nuclear deal. Netanyahu stated that the meeting was:
“a direct result of the Abraham Accords, which we brought,” in reference to the public normalization of relations between Arab countries and Israel due to former President Donald Trump’s breakthrough in finding a path to peace in the historically troubled region.
From the Afghanistan debacle and the total humiliation of handing over negotiations to Russia in the Iran deal to its failed Middle East foreign policy and lack of influence in the Ukraine-Russian war, America is becoming increasingly redundant amid the formation of new global alliances.
“Blinken Tries to Win Back Gulf States as Houthis Threaten World Oil Supply,” by Frances Martel, Breitbart, March 30, 2022:
Secretary of State Antony Blinken attempted to mend President Joe Biden’s increasingly strained relationship with Gulf states on Tuesday in a meeting with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, following a conversation with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have both expressed increasing frustration with the Biden administration’s failure to address the potential global implications of the seven-year-old Yemeni civil war, which overflowed into Saudi Arabia last week as the Iran-backed Houthi terrorist organization bombed oil facilities belonging to the Saudi state oil corporation Aramco. Saudi officials have repeatedly warned that Houthi attacks on oil assets could threaten the global fuel supply at a time in which the war between Russia and Ukraine has triggered shortages and record-high prices.
The Houthi movement is a Shiite jihadist organization that seized Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, at the onset of the civil war. Human rights groups have accused the Houthis of blocking shipments of food and other critical aid to the country, prompting what has rapidly become a famine. The Houthis fight under the slogan “Allahu Akbar, Death to America, Death to Israel, a Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam.”
President Biden stripped the Houthis of their Foreign Terrorist Organization designation as one of his first acts in office last year, greatly expanding their ability to access “humanitarian” funding.
Prior to this week’s Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meeting, Saudi Arabia raised its oil prices yet again, apparently rejecting pleas from Biden to both produce more oil and lower prices. The Gulf states, especially UAE, have also ignored Biden’s calls to marginalize Russia in light of the Ukraine war. Biden’s ban on importing Russian oil to the United States, alongside “green” energy policies that limit domestic production, have led to severe gas price increases in America.
As recently as three weeks ago, anonymously sourced reports indicated that Saudi and Emirati leaders were simply refusing to schedule phone calls with Biden officials.
Blinken met with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince bin Zayed on Tuesday in Morocco, one of three stops on his ongoing Middle East and North Africa tour. The tour notably omitted visits to the UAE or Saudi Arabia….
Infidel says
Not only will it not work, but the Saudis have also started allowing the use of currencies other than the dollar to sell their oil – this agreement w/ China. Expect other customers of theirs to request similar concessions, and w/ that, watch the dollar disappear as the world’s default reserve currency
Finally, the ability of our government to borrow endlessly to finance everything will come to an end
Kesselman says
On all parameters conceivable on today’s political scene, the Biden administration fails horribly. Those electing fall-through individuals like Biden and Harris did a fatal step. Blinken and associates are now running around the globe trying to excuse a partly dement head of state to those already turning their backs.
Wellington says
The Biden Administration is the Keystone Cops of presidential administrations. Others were bad, examples being those of Carter and Obama, but this administration has set a new “standard” for utter and often risible incompetence, though dangerous at times, and it starts at the top.
gravenimage says
Yep.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Ah, yes. The Keystone cops:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwUUUqgfu-E
Clive Delmonte says
De facto US President Anthony Blinken destroys everything political that he touches and has been able to blame Mr Biden for these failures.
They have over two years of disaster creation still left!!
gravenimage says
And that’s if Biden gets voted out or decides not to run for reelection.
Tony says
These Biden years, both past and coming are/will be full of relentless obsession with a make-believe world that can find no right in America or what commitments it has to former allies but is built on a resonance of anti-American values found in certain American types who look at the American past as bad, bad, bad. And their minds are clouded by this pretense that they take as gospel truth. Needless to say, the 4th estate has made their day by hiring them and their ideas as the Next Yellow Brick Road. Which makes for a sad case.