The U.S.-Saudi Relations

Peter Zine: Jake Sullivan, the U.S. national security advisor, went to Saudi Arabia last week in order to put together the framework of a new set of relations because relations under Biden have been pretty poor. On the other side is MBS, a Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince who really runs the shop and will be for probably the next 40 or 50 years unless he gets assassinated. Peter Zine: In the presence of a China that is being ever more persnickety and a Russia that is ever more genocidal, Saudi Arabia is a very useful heart.