US President, Trump has been called by Saudi Arabia to the public money for the military protection of the country. Even otherwise, the relations between the two countries are slightly dimmed. The Kingdom of sorted in Parts.
The Americans don’t like to give too much money for the fuel of their cars. Deep in the pocket, don’t reach for gasoline throughout the year, likely in the next November. But then the mid-term elections will be held in the United States – traditionally an appointment to strabismus the American President after half of their term of office on your re-election. Therefore they present to the public like encouraging news about the low fuel prices.
Probably also suspect that several U.S. media, the intervention of President Donald Trump for quite some time with the Saudi king Salman: please lower the price of Oil or the flow rate increase. Both could not decide the OPEC, at its recent Meeting. So Trump came on Sunday in West Virginia before the American Public in order to inform her that he had called to the king, on Saturday, to talk again about the Oil prices.
He reported further details of the conversation. “I love Saudi Arabia”, he let king Salman of knowledge, and then putting his case: “king, you have billions of Dollars. But who knows what happens when we get there. With us, the Saudi’s citizens live in complete safety. Just we not get what we should get,” he explains. “I said, Saudi-Arabia, you’re rich, you need for Your military pay, sorry.”
During his trip in may 2017, after Saudi Arabia, Trump had addressed the financial expectations of his country. At the time, he urged his Saudi purchases’s interlocutor was right blunt Weapons. The undersigned then in fact a contract for the sale of more than 100 billion dollars. Even then trump was noticed strong economic activity the understanding of the relations between the two countries. This he has now once again strong and direct expression.
In all friendship? US President Trump during his visit to Riyadh in may 2017
Disillusionment in Riyadh
Has cooled, the ratio of the two States? In fact, there are problems between the two countries, says Sebastian Sons, a Saudi Arabia expert at the German society for Foreign policy. But the good relationship did not want to receive, both countries, in principle, maintained. “Especially from the Saudi Arabian side is always emphasized how close and trusting the relationship to the Americans is, and how the ratio in front of all the things Donald Trump again has improved significantly.” The current ratio of both States was significantly influenced by the fact that they had a common enemy, namely Iran.
This fact übertünche the problems that had opened up between the two partners. So Saudi have adopted Arabia, already at the outbreak of the Qatar-crisis, to be able to very much more on the Trump count as it was afterwards actually the case. “Such experience, limit the possibilities of Saudi a’s foreign policy meanwhile, in a certain way. Nevertheless, the US remains Saudi Arabia’s most important Partner, all differences notwithstanding.”
Distance in the American Public
In the American Public, the close relationship to Saudi-Arabia is always critical. The Kingdom have made a series of “bad decisions,” writes columnist Bruce Riedel in the Internet-magazine “Al Monitor”. These include, among other things, the crisis with Qatar, the arbitrary arrests of – female – opponents and critics, and, above all, the disastrous war in Yemen. The absence of the ordinary court processes, and rule-of-law principles would have also led to the withdrawal of many international investors out of the country. Also the newspaper “Politico” with the American-Saudi relations, hard in the court. She accuses President Trump to go in the face of abuses in the Kingdom, sufficiently at a distance. The United States, “prostitutes” in its relations with the Gulf state, “Politico”. Trump had issued the Saudis a Blank cheque for a policy that the US values its grave.
The country under the bombs: the scene in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, August 2018
Difficult Life Partner
The new distance will, all attempt at appeasement, in Spite of, in Saudi Arabia, noted, says Sebastian’s Sons in an interview with DW. The country was facing a difficulty: It could hardly put on the other Partner. “Politically, the Alternatives are very thin. So to the close, historically evolved relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States prevents such as possible cooperation with Russia. Saudi Arabia is not perceived, wrongly, as an American ally.”
Always a staunch Saudi emphasized Arabia in the last few years, its claim as a regional power. The all-too-close contacts to Iran, accused, neighbours, Qatar has it want to go to a hearing vassals while at war in Yemen, which are also close ties to Iran’s suspected Houthis have de facto but also, and especially, the civil population. Both conflicts, in the way directed by the young crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, are out of control of the Kingdom. Also with regard to Syria, it could not enforce its interests, above all the removal of President Bashar al-Assad.
So it is dependent on allies urgently. However, the Kingdom does not have his powers still out, says the American exile living in Saudi Journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “The country has a number of contacts. If necessary, it can defend yourself,” says Khashoggi in the DW-Interview.
Economic Problems
Similarly, economic problems are pressing. The IPO of the state-owned company Saudi Aramco has been ended. If a new attempt is made, is uncertain. Thus, the future of the crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is responsible for the future project “2030”, at least in Parts is questionable. This should contribute to the Saudi economy after the Oil to prepare.
Economically, the Kingdom has acted, at least in Parts already. Saudi-Arabia, have already left under king Abdullah to Asia, says Sebastian Sons. To have Russia, China and India, Riyadh expanded economic relations. “This happens against the Background that the United States be due to the Fracking in the energy policy and increasingly independent. That is also why the Saudis are starting to think about their economic independence.”
You are likely to do well. That Trump is, in fact, a friend of the Kingdom, seems to be only partially secure. Saudi Arabia is a Dairy cow that needed milking, he had declared before his presidency, once. You give no more milk, it is necessary to slaughter them.
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