The Russian invasion of Ukraine is rapidly reorganizing the international map.
The West has formed to impose severe sanctions on Putin and his country, far more severe than the Russian president and even the West itself imagined.
A new arms race also opened in Europe, with Germany's huge investment in its military might, for the first time since World War II.
But while America and Europe have joined hands, Asia is dragging its feet.
China must have reservations about America and its allies.
But even India, the world's largest democracy, is far from aligning with the West.
This is also the practice of the central countries in the Middle East, including the Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
The US needs to ask itself why so many major countries do not stand by its side at a time of test. The obvious answer in the Middle East - Iran - is that it fails to cross the oceans, and reach America.
For America, Iran is a small matter.
So as far as Biden is concerned, it is probably possible on this front to give up, and concentrate mainly on being Russia and China.
But for Asia, and especially for the Middle East that America needs now, Iran is the main issue.
Everything revolves around it.
The Americans, even some Republicans, are disappointed with the positions of Israel and its neighbors regarding Russia.
They do not understand that here in the region rattles first of all from Iran, and do not understand its aggressiveness the US contains?
The residents of Jeddah, Irbil, Dubai and Tel Aviv have no explanation as to why the Russian invasion justifies severe punishment of America and its daughters, but no less violent attacks by Iran that are met with gestures, retaliation and will?
Iran has been biting into its neighbors' territories for no less years, and no less violently than Putin.
It conquered and destroyed Yemen and Lebanon.
It intervenes and acts militarily in Iraq and Syria, attacking Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Bahrain with missiles and swarms of drones, as well as America itself. And of course, Iran is preparing for the Gog and Magog war against Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and Yemen alike.
Do Americans think American bombs are less painful than Russian ones?
So why is the answer to them being a payment of half a billion dollars by Britain, and a chain of amazing gestures on the part of the United States, including removing the Hutus and the Revolutionary Guards from the list of terrorist organizations, a terrible nuclear deal that will cut Iran's way, Its killing machine? Or in essence, why Russia is being punished for its aggression, while Iran is being rewarded for it.
Dance tango with Putin and Shay
It is this inconceivable gap in the American approach that is causing Middle Eastern countries to distance themselves.
They are not sure of Washington's credibility.
And not just in the Middle East. Bloomberg-India commentator Harma is quick to put it well from his country's point of view: "India does not believe how hypocritical Western talk of sanctions can seem.
"The United States has spent most of the last decade trying to persuade India not to buy Iranian oil, only to try to bring Iranian shipments back to market as soon as the focus shifts to Russia."
Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, Photo: AFP
These questions are not just moral.
They are mostly strategic.
A new world is getting better quickly, and Washington is not reading the map.
Biden is belittled with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over Hashukaji's assassination, but appeases Iran for trying to assassinate Saudi ambassador to Washington.
Does this approach make sense?
So in order to keep the Gulf states on its side, the US needs to quickly update its foreign policy, and the first step is the removal of Iran. This is the Archimedean point.
Only a tough front against Iran will convey to Muhammad bin Salman and Muhammad bin Zayed, the message that America is by their side.
If Biden does so, Arab rulers will answer his calls and agree to increase oil production, which will reduce the damage to the American economy, make it easier for Biden to isolate Russia and China, and stabilize a strong Western bloc.
On the other hand, if Biden continues to boycott the Saudi regent, he will get him dancing a tango with both Putin and Shay.
And if he continues to restrain the Iranian attacks against the Emirates' energy facilities, the regent, Muhammad bin Zayed, will host in his palace not only Assad but also Putin himself.
Is this what the US wants to achieve?
Play the game of interests
During the Cold War years, the American presidents of both parties knew how to play the game of interests well.
The regimes of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain or the Emirates were no less dictatorial at the time but America knew how to keep them in its lap.
Faced with the new international order, and in view of the enormous implications for the world economy and its power relations, the Biden administration must play the right game.
The rapprochement of Asian countries, including the dictatorships of the Middle East, is essential for the survival and development of the free world.
And it is clear that there is an internal contradiction in the last sentence, since dictatorship is not a free state.
But if the US continues the current dig, these countries will eventually connect with China and Russia, and at least will not be on the side of America, as they actually are at the moment. Is not perfect.Politics is known to be a choice between alternatives and sometimes they are cruel alternatives.
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