Continuing the destruction of U.S. foreign policy, 79-year-old President Joe Biden claims he had a secret deal with Saudi Arabia July 15, when he met with 37-year-old Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Biden once said during the 2020 campaign he would never meet with Bin Salman or recognize him as Saudi leader. Well as the U.S. and Europe began running out of oil because of the reckless Ukraine War, Biden thought he could roll the dice and get a deal with Bin Salman to increase oil production. Biden’s advisers were warning him that high oil prices could sabotage Democrats heading into the November Midterm elections. So, Biden trotted off to meet Bin Salman in Jeddah July 15 to rescue his own failed energy policy. Had Biden followed Trump’s policy of energy independence, the U.S. would not beg Saudi Arabia or Venezuela for more oil. Biden’s failures keep mounting.
Biden’s energy policies to single-out fossil fuels for extinction despite industry dependence on conventional energy has been a disaster. Biden cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline Jan. 21, 2021, only nine days after taking his oath of office. Can you imagine without thinking about the consequences of harming the U.S. oil fracking industry, Biden cancels Keystone XL to placate his Party’s radical left like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex? Instead of sitting down with energy experts and reasoning out a response, Biden acted impulsively canceling Keystone XL, throwing a roadblock into the fracking industry. When Biden fist-bumped Bin-Salman July 15, he thought he could out smart Saudi Arabia. Bin Salman remembers Biden blaming him for the death of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Biden called Bin Salman a murderer for Khashoggi’s Oct. 2, 2018 death in the Saudi Istanbul embassy.
Instead of Biden dealing with his mistakes, he said that there will be consequences to Saudi Arabia cutting back on oil production. Do other foreign countries sanction the U.S. if they get less computer chips or any other commodity? When does a world leader threaten to sanction a sovereign power when they can’t get what they want? Biden said Bin Salman was showing his loyalty to his OPEC colleague, 70-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin. So now, the failure to produce more Saudi oil is seen as Bin Salman’s loyality to Putin. “The decisions of OPEC + are reached by the consensus of all members and determined solely by market fundamentals, not politics,” said Saudi’s energy ministry. Whatever the former ally or cooperation partner, Biden has an obsession with destroying past relations. Biden has wrecked for the foreseeable future U.S.-Russian and U.S.-Chinese relations.
Bin Salman follows closely U.S. political developments, saying recently that former President Donald Trump was much easier to deal with. With the U.S. press out to sabotage Trump at everything foreign and domestic, they accused Trump of having close ties with dictators and tyrants around the globe. So, now that Biden has wrecked U.S.-Russia, U.S.-Chinese and now U.S.-Saudi relations, why aren’t the media blaming Biden? As Bin Salman said recently, he had a good working relationship with Trump, something that can’t be said with Biden. To the fake news, every positive relationship with U.S. adversaries meant that Trump was cutting nefarious deals. Trump had excellent relations with Russia, China and eventually North Korea, something unprecedented in U.S. foreign policy. No U.S. president was able to make headway with the reclusive North Korean regime.
Biden has lashed out at U.S. adversaries like Russia and China from Day One. Now he harms U.S.-Saudi relations because the Kingdom won’t bail out Democrats with lower oil prices before the Midterm elections. How much more political does it get for the White House conducting U.S. foreign policy? Instead of working feverishly to end the Ukraine War, Biden keeps supplying Ukraine’s 44-year-old President Volodymer Zelensky with unlimited cash-and-lethal-weapons. Putin not longer battles Ukraine, he fights the U.S. who pays Ukraine to fight a bloody proxy war against the Kremlin. Biden’s highest priority should be ending the Ukraine War before it morphs into WW III or nuclear war. No one in the EU or NATO is prepared to fight Biden’s battle with Putin in Ukraine. Yet the White House and Kiev want no part of peace, only war making with the Russian Federation.
Biden’s latest kerfuffle with Saudi Arbia shows that he’s not capable of protecting U.S. national security. Whether Riyadh has a relationship with Putin should be of no concern to Biden. But Biden wants everyone to defend his proxy war against the Russian Federation. Many countries don’t like the war in Ukraine but they’re not willing to denounce Putin because they’ve built strong ties to Moscow over the years. “We have a disagreement with Saudi Arabia over the most recent production cut, but our energy policy has always focused on prices, not number of barrels—and that policy is succeeding with crude oil prices down over 30% this years allow,” said Adrienne Watson, National Security Council spokeswoman. If the U.S. wants low price and abundant supplies of oil, they need to remove roadblocks to the fracking industry and encourage more drilling in mineral rich areas.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
