Saudi Arabia Drifting Away from U.S and Israel
Amid a regional realignment, the Saudis are losing interest in the Abraham Accords
"In our ME201 group, we've discussed Shay Khateri's concern that the pace of Saudi modernization made it vulnerable to a reactionary, Iran-style revolution. It's possible MbS came to the same conclusion. These developments are evidence of America's new dispensability. Having concluded we're not reliable (see: https://claireberlinski.substack.com/p/will-china-replace-the-united-states), and no longer immediately worried about Iran, the Saudis have presumably concluded that joining the Abraham Accords is a bad bet: It would put them at odds with their own public and much of the region. A terrible shame. Had the custodians of the holy sites renounced their unwholesome obsession with Israel, it would have been a great liberation for all concerned. "
One of the few areas of near-absolute bipartisan consensus in U.S. foreign policy is support for the Abraham Accords, the first-term Trump initiative that established relations between moderate Arab countri…
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