The meddling United States often achieves its stated goals by interfering in the internal affairs and diplomacy of other countries, looking for strategic allies, and tying them to its "chariot."
The United States has done the same with regard to the Middle East, and the United States has warned Saudi Arabia to establish diplomatic relations with Israel.
And if Saudi Arabia does not do this, the United States may not help Saudi Arabia in the future, and just recently, Saudi Arabia's convoy of Prince Salman was suddenly attacked, after which Saudi Arabia may be determined to tear its face with the United States, and the establishment of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel may be difficult to achieve again, what is going on?
Salman's convoy was suddenly attacked
Saudi Arabia is one of the richest countries in the world, and its wealth is mainly concentrated in natural resource reserves, which means that Saudi Arabia is not only rich in mineral and natural gas, but also has large oil reserves.
According to relevant market statistics, the proven crude oil reserves in Saudi Arabia are as high as 36.35 billion tons.
This data accounts for 16% of the world's reserves, ranking second in the world, and it is natural to see the wealth of Saudi Arabia with such a heavy weight, and Saudi Arabia can earn high foreign trade revenue through the export of these crude oil products, so as to promote the rapid development of the domestic economy. For such a country, the United States naturally attaches great importance to it.
In the face of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Middle East, the United States seems to be more inclined to regard Saudi Arabia as a so-called "ally" in order to achieve its stated strategic goals and at the same time gain a dominant position in the oil trade.
In order to achieve this, the United States has forced Saudi Arabia to establish relevant relations with Israel, and it has issued a warning for this.
Just some time ago, Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser to the US president, publicly revealed to the media that the United States has now formally proposed to Saudi Arabia the conditions for signing a defense agreement.
The conditions do not seem to be harsh, but it is hoped that Saudi Arabia and Israel can reach a consensus on diplomatic relations and normalize diplomatic relations.
If Saudi Arabia does not do this, then the United States will certainly not sign this defense agreement. Threatening Saudi Arabia through such means also seems to be a common trick of the United States.
In addition, in the subsequent development, if Saudi Arabia does not converge with the United States, then the United States is likely to manipulate at the level of trade and finance.
Just like the various financial and trade sanctions policies proposed by the United States against the mainland or Russia in recent years.
However, it is worth noting that even though the United States has issued a clear warning, the Saudi side does not seem to immediately agree to the American request, and Saudi Crown Prince Salman has expressed his silence on this matter.
Many people believe that Salman's attitude at this time has been very clear, they do not want to establish corresponding diplomatic relations with Israel, and at the same time do not want to give up the possibility of signing a defense agreement with the United States or lose the American market.
What he didn't expect was that such hesitation might put his life at risk. Just after Salman and the United States had relevant communications, Salman's commercial transport convoy was hit by a car bomb.
Although Salman himself escaped death and was safe, many of his guards and bodyguards were killed.
Because the timing of this incident is very sensitive, although it may be the work of a terrorist organization in the Middle East, it may not be ruled out that there is a factor on the US side behind it.
After all, the Saudi side has not given a clear answer to the Israeli issue, and the United States may use its corresponding connections to inform terrorist forces to further threaten Salman.
Determined to tear the face with the United States?
In any case, after the car bomb explosion, Saudi Arabia may redefine its diplomatic relations with the United States.
Diplomatic relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia date back to the 70s of the last century, when the two countries concluded an alliance for their respective interests, forming a corresponding oil trade.
On the one hand, the United States needs Saudi Arabia's crude oil products to meet the needs of the domestic market, and on the other hand, Saudi Arabia also needs to achieve high foreign trade benefits through oil exports, promote the development of local industries, in order to further reduce its dependence on oil exports, in this case, the relationship between the two countries is also becoming increasingly close.
However, in recent years, in order to maintain its world hegemony, the United States has frequently interfered in the situation in the Middle East, forcing many Middle Eastern countries to change their foreign policy tendencies, so as to achieve checks and balances on Middle East countries in order to further control Middle East countries.
In order to achieve this, the United States has taken special care of Israel, and has also eased the scale of economic sanctions on Iran in previous developments.
These actions are unacceptable to the Saudi side, but in order to maintain trade relations with the United States, Saudi Arabia has no choice but to swallow its anger, after all, the American market is indeed very important to Saudi Arabia.
However, with the United States pressing forward step by step, it is now directly threatening the life and safety of Salman himself, and Saudi Arabia's trust in the United States will definitely gradually be lost.
It is even very likely that Saudi Arabia will abandon the US market and decouple from the US.
Of course, giving up the US market is also good for Saudi Arabia, after Biden took office, in fact, the US government has been frequently putting pressure on Saudi Arabia in order to be able to change the export price of petroleum products and help the US market to restore economic vitality, you must know that the dollar and the price of petroleum products are completely linked.
Once the price of petroleum products falls, then the dollar can be better dispersed throughout the international market so that the United States can achieve the subsequent harvesting action.
However, forcing oil production to increase and reduce prices is not good news for Saudi Arabia, after all, the oil economy on which Saudi Arabia depends may be affected by this, so there are differences between Saudi Arabia and the United States at this level.
If Saudi Arabia gets rid of the connection with the United States, then the subsequent export prices of petroleum products will naturally not be affected by other factors, but can make its own decisions.
If the Saudis are determined to tear their faces with the United States, then the subsequent international market pattern may undergo a major change.
Saudi Arabia's exports of petroleum products and other international commodities are likely to shift, and the corresponding export volume will no longer be dominated by U.S. policy.
As a result, diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and other countries may change, and the price of crude oil products will also fluctuate.
The establishment of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel may be difficult to achieve
Of course, no matter how Saudi Arabia defines its diplomatic relations with the United States in the future, the normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel may not be achieved now.
In itself, there are corresponding differences between the two countries on the question of statehood in the Palestinian areas.
Saudi Arabia and Palestine are both Islamic countries, and there is a certain convergence in the beliefs and religions of the people in the country.
It is precisely because of this that Palestine is regarded as a compatriot by Saudi Arabia, and in order to show its support for the establishment of Palestinian statehood, Saudi Arabia has given Palestinian fighter planes free of charge, and has also generously provided corresponding financial assistance to it.
However, there is a geopolitical conflict between the Palestinian side and Israel, and the Palestinians have been seeking to establish a range of cases based in the Gaza Strip, but this demand has been strongly opposed by the Israeli side, and a fierce conflict has broken out between the two countries.
Last year, the Palestinians launched a lightning attack on Israel, a military operation that directly caused more than 4,000 casualties, and Israel responded with a tough attitude by launching a bloody counteroffensive in Gaza.
Israel's military operations were so massive that they even crossed the boundaries of self-defence, resulting in tens of thousands of casualties, including the 3,500 children.
After the emergence of this conflict, the Saudi side will certainly not agree to the establishment of normal diplomatic relations with Israel, and the United States' step-by-step pressure will only have a corresponding counterproductive force. The Saudis themselves will not let up on the issue of ethnicity and faith, which may support the corresponding resistance in Saudi Arabia.
This may also pose a certain threat to Saudi Arabia's political stability. As for "security protection" and "market trade" from the United States, Saudi Arabia is not necessary now. All these factors indicate that Saudi Arabia will certainly redefine its trade relationship with the United States in the future, and it will be difficult to ease its relationship with Israel.
brief summary
The U.S. side has issued a corresponding warning like Saudi Arabia, intending to restore diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel is a normalization of relations.
However, there are corresponding differences between Saudi Arabia and Israel on the establishment of a Palestinian state, and after the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Saudi Arabia's attitude is very clear, even if the United States is a business threat, the Saudi side may not converge.
However, this may have been a fundamental factor in the attack on Salman's convoy, and in such a situation, Saudi Arabia will certainly be determined to tear its face with the United States in the future.
The establishment of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel is also difficult to achieve, which may lead to great changes in the international industrial market and Saudi Arabia's subsequent foreign trade policy.
All in all, the security protection and market trade brought by the United States to Saudi Arabia are not necessary, and other countries other than the United States can also achieve it. In order to address this demand, Saudi Arabia's subsequent trade subject market and the trend of diplomacy will definitely change.
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