The United States Plans to Get Rid Of Prohibition On Sales Of Offensive Weapons to Saudis
Jose Nino
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The Biden regime has plans of easing restrictions on several weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, United States officials announced on December Thursday. They alluded to the Saudi’s peace talks with a militia in Yemen for the move to relax these restrictions.
President Joe Biden slapped the prohibition on the Saudis two years ago as concerns rose about the US weapons were being used to target civilians in Yemen, where hundreds of thousands of people have been killed by airstrikes, ground combat, disease, and famine that the Saudi-led military coalition has brought about in its war against the Houthi militia .
The projected relaxation of the restriction, which originally blocked the sales of critical offensive armaments to Saudi Arabia, comes during a time when the Saudis attempt to finalize an American-backed peace settlement with the Houthis.
The US officials did not announce when the relaxation of the prohibition on sales might take place.
The Yemeni Houthi militia has carried out a vicious assault that has thrown a major wrench into global trade. Their launch of drones and missiles at commercial vessels in the Red Sea. The Houthis have justified the attacks as an action to compel Israel to end its military campaign in Gaza and have compelled the world’s premier shipping companies to reroute ships away from Yemen, which is located next to a critical maritime choke point.
Saudi Arabia has been at war with the Houthi rebels in Yemen since 2015. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto leader of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has sought to allay regional tensions and concentrate on the country’s economic affairs.
The US is still very much a Saudi ally despite some hiccups in the relationship between the two countries. For many of the neocon hacks in DC, Saudi can be used as a potential bulwark and even a sacrificial lamb against an American-Israeli-Saudi rival in Iran.
With the Saudis somewhat normalizing relations with Iran, there is some hope that stability in the Middle East will occur. However, with Zionist and American interests dominating Middle Eastern affairs, there’s the off-chance that the Saudi could get hoodwinked into getting into a conflict with the Iranians.
Hopefully, cooler heads in the Saudi regime prevail and pursue a more realist foreign policy.
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