Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations after decades of bitter relations and proxy wars. It is good news for the Chinese government who brokered the deal. The deal should also pave the way for Iran and Saudi to join BRICS.
At the same time Iran and Russia have announced an agreement for Iran to purchase an unspecified number of Russian Su-35 jet fighters.
While better relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran is good news for people who have suffered through the proxy wars in Syria and Yemen, it is not good news for US occupation forces who are becoming increasingly isolated. Nor is it good news for US arms suppliers. Perhaps that explains why General Milley visited Syria a few days ago.
The Iran-Saudi deal and Russian-Iran jet deal are clearly bad news for Blinken and Biden, but there may be silver lining. Everything they have touched as turned to â– â– â– â– , which could relieve the worldwide fertilizer shortage.
Are the days of US-backed proxy wars in the Middle East numbered?
Biden’s policies have succeeded in aligning three of the world’s biggest oil exporters (Russia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia) with Beijing instead of Washington.
Are the days of the Petrodollar and US dollar as the dominant reserve currency numbered as well?
Have China’s investments with the Biden family paid off?
Or have Biden and Blinken just been mindlessly implementing neocon talking points?
Yes, it is time to bring the Syrian occupation forces back to the US.
Arms sales in general are likely to go down in the Mideast if the Saudi’s and Iranians end the proxy wars in Yemen and Syria. That is good thing in my opinion. What is good for the military-industrial complex is rarely good for average Americans or the rest of the world.
The alliance between the US and the Saudi’s goes back to the 1940s and has been a cornerstone for US policy in the Middle East. Biden’s policy has alternated between name-calling and bullying. Needlessly creating enemies is not a good idea unless you are an arms merchant looking to increase sales.
As far as hostility, that has been true for Iran since the 1970s but not for the others. Russia was frequently allied with the US until about ten years ago when the US ramped up the color revolution in Ukraine.
Saudi Arabia has been allied with the US for several decades; the Saudi shift towards China is a big deal.
Saudi has not yet agreed to the Abraham Accords. Saudi still will not recognize Israel and I doubt they ever will.
And the Biden Administration does not like the term and therefore will not use it. They have instead been using the term “normalization agreements".
However that does not mean that they are not pursuing expanding them to other countries.
