The significance of President Biden's meeting with Saudi Prince Salman - BBC News

US President Joe Biden has made a big change in his policy after meeting with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on his tour of the Middle East.

During his election campaign in 2019, President Biden vowed to make Saudi Arabia a "pariah" state.

It came after the CIA concluded the crown prince had approved the brutal killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Istanbul consulate.

The Saudi state has denied the findings of the CIA.

#US #SaudiArabia #BBCNews

[HistoryOfRevolutions]

Americans are in no position to speak about human rights. How can Americans criticise Saudi for assasinating 1 man, when Americans wiped out entire villages with drone strikes in Afghanistan?

[jimp]

Biden : Do you happen to know Khashoggi?
Saudi Prince: Yes, I do. What's up?
Biden : Ah, Good.
Saudi Prince : And?
Biden : The oil, the oil you have, ...Which I really care about... is more democratic than Russian's.... I can certify it as democratic oil.
Saudi Prince: Thank you.
BBC: Biden did raised the question to Saudi pariah about Khashoggi, and the meeting is significant.

[stewartallison]

Joe goes to Saudi Arabia with the begging bowl out pleading for Oil... Whilst Saudi Arabia is buying more Oil than ever from Russia... Genius 😅👏👏👏

[squirrel]

Funny how Europe has principles when it comes to Russia. Meanwhile principles go out the window when it comes to Europes relationship with America.

[ianthesiow]

(USA) America calls it "Liberation" instead of "Invasion". That was what US call it in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and the list goes on... Why the double standard? Confused... Please enlighten. Genuine question...


Instances of the United States "liberated" or overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)

China 1949 to early 1960s
Albania 1949-53
East Germany 1950s
Iran 1953 *
Guatemala 1954 *
Costa Rica mid-1950s
Syria 1956-7
Egypt 1957
Indonesia 1957-8
British Guiana 1953-64 *
Iraq 1963 *
North Vietnam 1945-73
Cambodia 1955-70 *
Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
Ecuador 1960-63 *
Congo 1960 *
France 1965
Brazil 1962-64 *
Dominican Republic 1963 *
Cuba 1959 to present
Bolivia 1964 *
Indonesia 1965 *
Ghana 1966 *
Chile 1964-73 *
Greece 1967 *
Costa Rica 1970-71
Bolivia 1971 *
Australia 1973-75 *
Angola 1975, 1980s
Zaire 1975
Portugal 1974-76 *
Jamaica 1976-80 *
Seychelles 1979-81
Chad 1981-82 *
Grenada 1983 *
South Yemen 1982-84
Suriname 1982-84
Fiji 1987 *
Libya 1980s
Nicaragua 1981-90 *
Panama 1989 *
Bulgaria 1990 *
Albania 1991 *
Iraq 1991
Afghanistan 1980s *
Somalia 1993
Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
Ecuador 2000 *
Afghanistan 2001 *
Venezuela 2002 *
Iraq 2003 *
Haiti 2004 *
Somalia 2007 to present
Honduras 2009 *
Libya 2011 *
Syria 2012
Ukraine 2014 *
2014 - 2022 - 6 countries yet to verify.
Pakistan 2022 *

[sumanthmurthy]

So basically there’s no difference between Trump and Biden in regards to Middle Eastern Foreign policy.
Got it

[boldnessofsouls]

“The Khassogi murder was raised during the discussions.” Well what the devil is the point of telling a murderer he’s a murderer? The guy already knows.

[sankarra]

@BBC News, When the incident happened,
USA: "Banned Saudi, banned the prince"
When America needs an oil,
USA: "Hey bro, long time no see"
And this is the person that should be the leader of the world, whose words should be obeyed by other countries.

[MrAckers]

“Hey your a murderer”
“Yes I am”
“Nice talk”

[briannave]

What a wasted trip, get back to using our own oil. FJB!

[frankmerolillo]

If he was smart he would open the keystone pipeline and start Drilling in West Texas. DUH.

[johnreynolds]

But what about "protecting democracy" in Saudi Arabia, President Biden?

[JOHNNY-zxlc]

Begging Saudi dictators for oil.. "please, sir I want some more" what a joke of a president.

[Lifewithlori-xox]

@BBC please correct the video title. His name is not Prince Salman it's Prince Mohammed. Salman is his dad's name.

[mygunisinnocent]

Brandon is working to shut down US oil producers, while at the same time begging the Saudi leader to increase production. He's a nut job

[TheGame]

Watching world leaders fistbump is something I was not expecting to ever see lol

[Thesureleague]

😂😂😂Biden wasn’t it you who wanted to ban MBS and called him a
murderer?? You have brought US completely down to its knees. You should be impeached

[greattime]

Iran-Saudi sudden diplomatic relations
after 6 years of break-up.

A smart move from Saudis
to not put all the eggs in one basket.
The improved relations with Iran, Russia, and China
are a good insurance policy.
It seems US has outplayed its role
in the Middle East.

They are realizing US leadership
is declining in the middle east
for over 15 years.

Asean economy soon will surpass that of the EU.

The US asked Saudi Arabia
to upgrade and renovate the oil refineries in Houston
but the Saudis said no.
But a year later,
the Saudis built a brand new refineries in China
worth about 10 billion dollars.

Is it because the Saudis wants
the US to stay dependent on the oil from them?

The US asked the Saudis repeatedly
to increase production of oil
but there’s a long silence from the other end.

They’re only selling oil to China and to Russia
and they get paid in digital currency,
technology or weapons from Russian.

[HandleGF]

"A day without selling western weapons that fell off the back of a lorry is a day wasted." - Del Ensky

[jediknight]

Human rights and that's coming from Britain colonisers 🤣😂 good one