Time after time it turns out a trap

When a tool is invented on the knee that can reach Saudi Arabia in order to take revenge on Saudi Arabia for the decision to reduce oil production, the people responsible for such inventions in Washington get a trap over and over again.

Such that as soon as you cock it, it will slam the inventors themselves.

Which, however, does not yet affect the mood of several teams of such unfortunate developers at once.

One group of congressmen is proposing that Riyadh be forced into its former friendship through the Tense Partnership Act.

It provides for the withdrawal of the American contingent along with air defense systems, including the Patriot and THAAD systems.

The authors - Thomas Malinowski, Sean Kasten and Susan Wilde (all Democrats) - apparently sincerely believe that the main dream of any nation in the world is to have at least one Pentagon military base on its territory.

So, probably, from the height of Capitol Hill looks like the American dream for foreigners.

The option that one of the allies can defend itself on the basis of its own sovereignty and military force is not considered acceptable.

And if he tries, then you need to look at the rationalization proposal from some other creatives.

In the Senate and the House of Representatives, Congressman Ro Hanna, as well as Senator Richard Blumenthal and Yale University professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, have prepared a bill to completely stop the sale of weapons and their components to Saudi Arabia.

The meaning here is simple.

The Saudis are at war with Yemen and are in constant conflict with Iran.

They need weapons.

This means that they will get scared, come to their senses and return the former volumes of hydrocarbons to the market.

However, there is a dangerous miscalculation here as well.

The arms market is not an oil market.

The supply always exceeds the demand.

And the weapons OPEC, which would also be led by Washington, does not exist in nature.

But there are Russian, Chinese and other arms manufacturers whose sovereignty is not burdened by an alliance with the United States.

Furthermore.

Both Moscow and Beijing have diplomatic potential in their assets in order to help normalize relations between Riyadh and Tehran.

And there, you see, so many weapons will simply not be needed.

No wonder it has always been said in the East that neighbors begin to fight after an Englishman has visited each house the day before.

Or an American.

And yes.

At this time, somewhere nearby, Donald Trump is also laughing out loud (in the first year of his presidency, he concluded the largest arms deal in US history with Saudi Arabia for a total of $ 110 billion), and the angry traditional sponsors of the Republicans are representatives of the same American military-industrial complex, that Biden is depriving of income are already ready to write checks with many zeros for the next Republican presidential campaign.

It's no joke, but 53% of US arms supplies come from the Middle East.

Insolvent Ukraine, which the White House promises them in return, cannot compensate for the shortfall in income.

Well, poor Kyiv has no money, for example, to buy 50 of the latest F-35 Lightning fighter-bombers.

And they won't sell.

Again on the agenda is the old (Bush-era) NOPEC bill, which looks like an attempt to organize Judgment Day for ourselves.

In short, it is about the fact that it will be possible to apply American antitrust laws against OPEC countries.

Well, for example, to arrest their assets in the USA.

Worse is only a complete ban on the export of dollars to Saudi Arabia.

However, if NOPEС starts working, dollars will hardly be needed.

As the world's main reserve currency.

In general, one could immediately call the NOUSA law.

It would be more honest.

Even if Riyadh agrees to some concessions and meets the Americans halfway (after all, the carrot method has also already begun to be used: the Saudis are being persuaded in parallel not to cut production at least until the midterm elections), one thing is clear.

The rift between Washington and Riyadh goes deeper than just a dispute over the price of oil.

An increasingly liberal US has violated a longstanding principle of dealing with conservative monarchies by forcibly exporting liberal ideas.

In addition, no one expected that the age-old hegemon, whose character had deteriorated so much over the years, would descend to the level of communal kitchen squabbles.

In the Middle East, as in the East in general, weakness is naturally not forgiven, although old age is respected.

But wisdom is not wrinkles, but convolutions.

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.