“The people I speak to…do not necessarily feel betrayed…[but] let down at a time when we thought that America and Saudi Arabia should be together in facing what would consider to be a joint not just irritant but danger to the stability and security of the area”, Prince Turki said in an interview with Arab News.
“And, of course, he went on to practice what he preached”, the former official added, pointing to the end of US military support, Biden’s refusal to meet with Crown Prince Salman, “and, at one stage, withdrawing anti-aircraft missile batteries from the Kingdom when we were facing an increase in attacks by the Houthis using Iranian equipment like missiles and drones”.
“President Biden made it a policy of the US government to cut all links to what is called the oil and gas industry. He curtailed oil production and gas production in the US [when] it had been, in the last few years, the biggest producer of these two energy resources”, he said. On top of that, he said, there was “the European and US curtailment of, and sanctions on, the Russian oil industry. All of these things have added to the increase in oil prices”.