The White House on Tuesday defended President Biden’s plans to meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia, a country he once vowed to make a “pariah.”
Although the dates for Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia haven’t yet been set, he did confirm that he has plans to meet with MbS, who is the Kingdom’s de facto leader. Defending the MbS meeting, the White House said it will serve the US national interest.
“This trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia — when it comes — would be in the context of significant deliverables for the American people in the Middle East region,” said White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
“If he determines that it’s in the interest of the United States to engage with a foreign leader and that such an engagement can deliver results, then he’ll do so,” she added.
Biden is expected to press MbS to increase oil output as Americans are facing record-high gas prices. But the plan has exposed the hypocrisy of the Biden administration as the US has banned the import of Russian oil over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine while turning to Saudi Arabia for help, a country that has been leading a brutal war against its neighbor Yemen with US support since March 2015.
Biden’s plan to meet with MbS has drawn criticism from Congress. Six House Democrats sent a letter to President Biden urging him to “recalibrate” the US-Saudi relationship. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that if he were in Biden’s shoes, he wouldn’t meet with MbS because of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who US intelligence assessed was killed at the direction of the Saudi crown prince.
“I wouldn’t go. I wouldn’t shake his hand. This is someone who butchered an American resident, cut him up into pieces and in the most terrible and premeditated way,” Schiff said.
Democrats in Congress have also led a renewed effort to end the war in Yemen by introducing a war powers resolution to end US support for the conflict. The bill has 55 cosponsors, including five Republicans.
A two-month ceasefire in Yemen held relatively well with no Saudi airstrikes reported in that time, and the warring sides agreed to extend the truce.
Has Biden been invited by the pariah state?
Ofcourse not! He is old fool and he stuffed up big time,he should be in competition with Putin, although Putin still cool comparing Biden,not to dropping a tactical nuclear weapons like the Americans dropped to Hiroshima, although Japanese surrendered but still Americans dropped the BOM anyway,
How low these people can stoop.
Keep smoking whatever you are using, it seems to do the trick.
Read the right newspapers then you won’t stay useful idot, ‘antiwar.com’ website paid by readers,
As you probably don’t know;
Lying has always been a foundation stone of the US National Security establishment,
Johann Goethe said; ” None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free”
But you wouldn’t know that,
I guess you are taking your talking points straight from the Kremlin.
How long ago was it since you formed opinions of your own, comrade?
I am not bloody Russian,I borne in Europe,my point is,you don’t know much about history and you’ve been programmed to be useful idiot so you can talk like that.
Read and learn,read ” antiwar com” then you realised how ignorant you are.
All of you useful idiots and Trump become President,how’s that possible? How come you people believe Trump was winner?
Still people fallowing him,
And attacked to Capitol Hill is another example.
Even my Name might reveiling that I am not Russian,but you can not guess,because you are ignorant.
you are correct; the japanese had been trying to surrender for some time while uncle sam kept the war going so they could show off the atomic bombs
Don’t you worry about that, Bianca.
I’m sure the Saudis are more then happy to meet with him, after all he’s the most powerful man on earth.
There there there!
Your mind,your brain,your thinking practically raped by misinformation / propaganda / information war,so you needed to reprogramming,but it looks like impossible mission.
Comrade, don’t say that you have been brainwashed like Bianca?
Americans have to dance with the EVIL REGIME of Saudi Arabia , because of the petro Dollar , if the Saudis go from the Dollar to say the Euro then the US is finished .
Afraid of lower oil prices, comrade?
how are the saudis “pariahs” when trump just spent 4 years kissing their ass