President Joe Biden is reportedly planning to meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia, despite promising to treat the country and its leaders as “outcasts” during his presidential campaign.
Biden was enraged at the assassination of Saudi Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 and the passive reaction of former President Donald Trump to the event.
During the Democratic primary debate in November 2019, Biden bragged that he would “definitely pay them and make them pariahs.”
“Saudi Arabia’s current government has little value to society,” he added.
File/Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal (right) greets US Vice President Joe Biden at Riyadh Air Base on October 27, 2011, as he arrives in the Saudi capital with an official US delegation. (AFP via Getty)
Biden also said he would “make it clear that we will no longer sell any weapons” to the Saudis in 2019, but in November he authorized the sale of 280 air-to-air missiles for up to $650 million.
But according to reports, Biden is now expected to meet with Saudi Arabia and possibly even bin Salman by the end of June.
The president failed to commit to a substantial increase in US oil production, leaving his administration at the mercy of OPEC+.
Leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) reportedly refused to answer their phones during the Ukraine crisis after repeatedly belittling President Joe Biden during his first years in office. https://t.co/rWIOz8qySr
– Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) March 9, 2022
While the Biden administration vainly begged OPEC to lift restrictions on oil production abroad, high gas prices were the main reason for the president’s visit.
Oil prices fell on Thursday in response to news of Biden’s possible talks with the Saudis, as well as the possibility of boosting OPEC+ oil production to tackle the oil shortage after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Source: Breitbart
