The main Arab ally of the United States in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, led in fact by its young crown prince, Mohammed Ben Salman (MBS), is worried about a victory by Joe Biden.
"MBS probably spends sleepless nights at the idea of losing a very good partner
(Donald Trump), the
one who saved him after the assassination",
dissident Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018, writes researcher and opponent Madawi al-Rashid on the MiddleEasteye website.
A president who, in the eyes of the Saudi leaders, does not let down his allies in the Middle East, unlike his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, who sacrificed the Egyptian ex-rais Hosni Mubarak on the altar of the Arab revolts in 2011.
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Beyond the Khashoggi affair,
"the Saudis have found in Trump an ideal president, ready to confront Iran and its ally Hezbollah, a president authorizing
the assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani
,
analyzes Marc Martinez , independent researcher, long based
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