How did the natural death of old American friendships in West Asia come about? Mehr News Agency Iran and world’s news
According to Mehr News Agency, “Foreign Policy” in an article written by “Steven A. Steven A. Cook described the “natural death of old American friendships in the West Asian region.”
About 50 years ago, the United States made changes in Egypt, the report said. This was a major victory in zero-sum diplomacy during the Cold War, during which the two superpowers sought to mobilize regional allies. After Britain abandoned its positions east of the Suez Canal in 1971, the Egyptians joined a club that included the Saudis, Jordanians, Israelis, and small Gulf states, all seeking protection.
“In the following decades, with direct US intervention in West Asia, these countries formed the core of a group of US-friendly countries aimed at meeting Washington’s goals in the region;” Including facilitating and protecting the free flow of oil from the region (to the United States), helping to ensure the security (of the Israeli regime), countering terrorists, preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and a range of other overly ambitious policies. Like the invasion of Iraq.
«استیون ا. “I have been thinking about the details of the crisis since Washington’s relations with its partners in West Asia, especially Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, were published,” Cook said. Of course, there is an issue in this regard. After the crisis in Ukraine, neither the Saudis nor the Emirati people accepted Joe Biden’s request for more oil production. Neither the Saudis nor the Emirati people accepted Joe Biden’s (recent) demands for more oil production in the wake of rising global prices following the conflict in Ukraine. Shortly after Russian troops moved west, the UAE government rejected a resolution condemning Russia’s attack on the UN Security Council, and while Biden seeks to unite the world against Russia, neither Saudi Arabia nor the UAE has sanctioned Moscow. Do not support their partner in OPEC Plus. In mid-March, the UAE hosted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Dubai. It is difficult to imagine what message the Crown Prince of the UAE, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, is sending from his meeting with Bashar al-Assad; But these developments clearly show the gap between these countries and the United States.
The report adds: “Problems in US relations with the Saudis are slowly forming, but a combination of regional, global and political factors have clashed over the past eight months, contributing to the general deterioration of relations.” When was the last time a West Asian leader refused to make a phone call to the US President? We have 2 cases in recent examples. The Saudis and Emirati no longer seem to believe the US statement that Washington is committed to their security.
“Recently, Washington’s unexpected departure from Afghanistan and the Biden administration ‘s determination to negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran have been reported in the media,” the Foreign Policy report added. This, along with Washington’s reluctance to identify the Houthis in Yemen as a terrorist group while US officials are considering removing the IRGC from the terrorist list, is the most telling indicator for the Saudis and Emirati people. The United States’s absurd commitment to their security.
“But it’s not just the Saudis and the Emirati,” he added. Although Israel has been more vocal in its criticism of the United States during Naftali Bennett’s presidency, he and Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid have made it clear that the Israelis will not commit to any nuclear deal with Iran. They also lobbied the US government to bring the Houthis back on the list (terrorist groups) and to share with them the UAE and Saudi concerns about the Revolutionary Guards. On the other hand, the Egyptians have acquired advanced Russian weapons in recent years and are refusing to choose between Washington and Beijing. It was all the smiles at the Niqab summit that brought the foreign ministers of Israel, Egypt, Bahrain, the UAE and Morocco together with the US Secretary of State; But there is also the fact that, after years of trying by US officials to build a regional consensus, what exists now does not include the United States.There is also the fact that after years of US officials trying to build a regional consensus, what now stands as a consensus does not include the United States. All in all, all of this has led people in Washington to question whether the US partners in West Asia are really partners. Similarly, officials in West Asian capitals have the same question about the United States. “These issues are because these relationships are out of date – they are discovered, developed and created for a while, but they also disappear all at once.” Roosevelt »The then US President and King Abdulaziz established US-Saudi relations 77 years ago. It’s been a long time since former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat told former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger that Egypt could be a bulwark against the Soviet Union. Washington’s relations with the United Arab Emirates were strengthened during the 1990s, when the US presence in the Persian Gulf became permanent. These relations have grown closer to the (so-called) war on terror, but Americans are now coming to terms with the security implications of their foreign policy over the past two decades and want change.
On a larger scale, the main interests of the United States in West Asia – the free flow of oil and helping to ensure Israel’s security – no longer seem necessary. Yes, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine underscores the importance of West Asian oil right now, and energy transfers will never be as smooth as some thought. But as the process of adapting to oil alternatives accelerates (the US intelligence community estimates that this will begin after 2030), the region’s oil fields will be less important to the United States. Previously, US policymakers have shown that they no longer want to defend and pay for energy security in West Asia. One of the less controversial things that former US President Donald Trump did during his presidency was not responding to the 2019 attack on Saudi Arabia, which can be considered as a reason for the separation of these friendships.