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Joe Biden is in operation reconquest in Saudi Arabia. The Middle East specialist, David Rigoulet-Roze, was Franceinfo’s guest on the 11 p.m. set, to talk about it.
Can we speak of humiliation for Joe Biden after agreeing to travel to Saudi Arabia? As a reminder, the American president, then in the electoral campaign, had treated the country of the Arabian peninsula as a pariah state, after the assassination of the journalist and opponent of power, Jamal Khashoggi. “A reality principle prevails. Joe Biden is forced to take into account certain realities with the impact of the war in Ukraine, the energy shock”explains David Rigoulet-Roze, Doctor of Sciences Politicss.
The unstable economic context gives Saudi Arabia the possibility of regaining a central role. Ostracized for a time, the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed Bin Salman, intends to regain the front of the diplomatic scene. For Joe Biden, the question of the Iranian threat is also present while it poses the problem of a regional security architecture.
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