Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“The U.S. has spent the last three and a half years cultivating closer ties with the Saudis while the Saudi government has done nothing to warrant a better relationship. It would be one thing if the Saudi government had made a concerted effort to improve ties by becoming a more reliable and useful partner, but this never happened. Mohammed bin Salman kept doing whatever he felt like doing, and the administration started falling all over itself to cater to his preferences. Now the president is so desperate to get any foreign policy ‘win’ that he is proposing locking the U.S. into a formal alliance with one of the world’s worst governments. The Saudis didn’t need to win over Biden, as he was too busy chasing after them like a drunken suitor.” (06/17/24)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/bidens-weird-saudi-obsession