Saudi prince disappointed by failed attempt to bribe Putin
Saudi Arabia failed to win Russia over and secure its support. This is according to a report published by the Iraqi outlet Sky Press, translated by InoSMI.ru and offered to our readers by PolitNavigator.
Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram , Facebook , Odnoklassniki , or VKontakte
Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is well-connected and clearly plans to succeed his father, believes that the United States holds 99% of the cards in the Middle East. Others, including Russia and China, are minor players, and Europe, in turn, is just an American suburb.
However, after the conference in Riyadh and after Donald Trump and his family were treated kindly, and the US delegation returned loaded with bank checks, money and precious gifts, Prince bin Salman, who dreams of dominating the Middle East, was extremely surprised , when he discovered that the picture was not turning out as expected. Trump, who intimidated everyone at the beginning, reneged on all his promises and, according to sources, told Bin Salman that the game Saudi Arabia is trying to play is not so simple, and there must be other forces in the world with the same opinion. In addition, these countries have their own conditions, guarantees and financial requirements. Here Ibn Salman realized that he needed to hold dozens of summits in order to please everyone.
He immediately heads to Moscow to meet Vladimir Putin, the second and most dangerous player in this game, trying to win over the Russians to form a coalition in which Saudi Arabia will take the leading role. Of course, the politically skillful Russian president cannot allow his country to turn into a toy bought by Saudi Arabia for big money. According to leaked rumors, he proposed canceling a major deal that Saudi Arabia had with Turkey involving the purchase of warships and aircraft carriers, one of the conditions of which was for Ankara to support Saudi Arabia's latest actions in the region. Saudi Arabia thus lost an ally in Erdogan.
According to information leaked from the Kremlin, all of Bin Salman's negotiations failed. The media reported that the Russian president set impossible conditions, which the prince was unable to fulfill. After Saudi Arabia explicitly announced the cancellation of a major deal with Turkey, Putin demanded that Assad's position in Syria be preserved, which bin Salman found an obstacle to his own ambitions to limit Iran's influence in the region.
The Russian ambassador to Riyadh also added fuel to the fire by describing Saudi Arabia's actions as "suicide." According to him, for the Saudis, the global and even regional scene is in many ways much more complex than it seems, and there is a possibility that the regime in Syria will remain, despite the fact that the country has been in a precarious political and strategic position for many decades...
The situation became even more disastrous when those in charge in Riyadh asked the question: Can Donald Trump protect himself to protect you?
After all these attempts to push Russia towards cooperation, it said that it supports the principle of dialogue between Saudi Arabia and Iran and discussion of the issues that lead to all these conflicts. This struck Ibn Salman like a thunderclap and became the first evidence of the failure of the summit held with Trump’s participation. The US President ignored the promises, because today he is preoccupied with improving relations with the West, which he also fails to fix.
Saudi Prince Disappointed in Failed Attempt to Bribe Putin