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Saudi Arabia’s Problems: Coronavirus, the Economy, and Geopolitics
Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman may feel the global coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout are the more immediate of his problems as the...
However, looming large on the horizon is a potential rift with the US resulting from the kingdom’s oil price war with Russia, which contributed to the…
- Dr. James M. Dorsey
- BESA
President Donald Trump is believed to be weighing a ban on import of Saudi oil in a bid to force the kingdom to reroute tankers carrying some 40 million…
More fundamentally, Prince Muhammad has put the kingdom’s relationship with the US at risk without having any real alternatives.
At this time, an…