Divorce in the Making? US-Saudi Relations ‘Bending Toward a Breaking Point’
SputnikNews.com
07.01.2016
Strained relations between Washington and one of its key allies in the Middle East might well have outlived their usefulness and are “bending toward a breaking point,” foreign affairs correspondent Michael Crowley asserted.
The relationship has been plagued by unresolvable issues, including the Iran nuclear deal and America’s support of uprisings during the Arab Spring. It appears to be at an all-time low at the moment but it has never been too cordial or mutual.
“In his first encounter with King Abdullah at a London conference in April 2009, Obama was caught on camera appearing, to some eyes, to bow to the Arab leader. Conservatives taunted him for weeks for allegedly kowtowing to the monarch,” Crowley noted in an article titled “Obama’s royal pain.”
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