KSA’s allegiance is to KSA, if a pact with the US helps them, they will make it, if a pact with China helps them, they will make it. One reason cited by Saudi leaders as to why Saudi Arabia made more tech deals with China, Huawei for example despite US warnings, is that the deals aren’t conditioned on normalization with Israel and social and political changes.
KSA knows that it is a rich country that has many weak points and has no chance of surviving being on the bad side of the US. What the US is doing to Gaza serves as a warning to Arab leaders which makes them afraid unfortunately.
Something I read here on Lemmy is that states don’t have allies, they have interests, and I’d confidently wager that’s the underlying truth regardless of state. Being allied with so many in the general region if (when?) something pops off begs the question, what is the prevailing interest.
KSA’s allegiance is to KSA, if a pact with the US helps them, they will make it, if a pact with China helps them, they will make it. One reason cited by Saudi leaders as to why Saudi Arabia made more tech deals with China, Huawei for example despite US warnings, is that the deals aren’t conditioned on normalization with Israel and social and political changes.
KSA knows that it is a rich country that has many weak points and has no chance of surviving being on the bad side of the US. What the US is doing to Gaza serves as a warning to Arab leaders which makes them afraid unfortunately.
Something I read here on Lemmy is that states don’t have allies, they have interests, and I’d confidently wager that’s the underlying truth regardless of state. Being allied with so many in the general region if (when?) something pops off begs the question, what is the prevailing interest.