Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, historical partners in the United States, do not participate in the anti-Putin front.
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In the vast anti-Putin front, that the United States trained in response to the Russian offensive in Ukraine, three Washington’s historical partners lack the call, not least: Israel, Arabia Saudi and the United Arab Emirates (water). None of these countries took sanctions against Russia. The two Petromonarchies of the Gulf are reluctant to increase their black gold production, Washington’s requests, which seeks to contain the outbreak of the price of hydrocarbons. And, in Dubai, a tax has water, the Russian oligarchs have open table, to the large displeasure of Westerners who track their assets.
The refusal of the Hebrew State to take part in the conflict is mainly by tactical considerations, foreign to its American ally: appear as a possible mediator between kyiv and Moscow and preserve the ability of his aviation to intervene against The Iranian positions in Syria, a country whose sky is controlled by Moscow. On the other hand, the defection of Saudis and Emiratis is a reflection of the deep discord which reigns between these two countries and their overseas protector.
The relationship of the White House with Riyadh, idyllic under the Trump administration, found with Joe Biden the acrimonious tone she had taken at the end of the mandate of Barack Obama. “I do not care” (“I do not care”), has recently responded Mohammed Ben Salman, the strong man of the Saudi Crown, to a journalist of the American magazine The Atlantic, who questioned him about the persistent refusal of The current American president to talk to him. A measure announced in the wake of the publication, beginning 2021, from the report of the CIA incriminating the son of King Salman in the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in 2018, in Istanbul.
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As for the alliance between Washington and Abu Dhabi, the other great power of the Arabian Peninsula, “it is at the lowest point,” observes Hussein Ibish, Analyst at the Arab Gulf States Institute of Washington. The reception of great pomp that Mohammed Ben Zayed, the regent of the water, offered, on March 19, to the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, provided a brilliant demonstration. The coming to Abu Dhabi of the Aleppo executive is a foot of the law Caesar, voted by the Congress in 2019, which threatens with sanctions, any entity in relation to Damascus. “The Emirates go through a phase of hubris, they take for average power, while they are very vulnerable,” continues Hussein Ibish.
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