From WSJopinion: While the world needs Saudi oil, the crown prince needs the West—and the security that only the U.S. can provide, writes Karen Elliott House
Wonder Land: If President Biden is willing to say the Russians are committing genocide in Ukraine, why won't he say his goal there is to defeat Russia or Vladimir Putin? Images: AFP/Getty Images/Sputnik/Reuters/Roscosmos Space Agency Composite: Mark KellyPresident Biden and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman may not like each other, but they desperately need each other—and time for rapprochement is running out.
Imagine for a moment that Saudi oil suddenly disappears from world markets—or its supply is severely curbed. The immediate effects would be massively higher prices at the pump, further collapse of the Democrats’ bleak prospects at the polls, disruption of the crown prince’s modernization agenda, and a greatly emboldened axis of Russia, China and Iran.
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