Journalist: US Empire tells Middle East, 'We ain't leaving'
An American journalist and political analyst said US President Joe Biden’s announcement that the US will remain "fully engaged in the Middle East" means the American Empire does not intend to leave the region.
Biden told Arab leaders on Saturday that Washington would remain fully engaged in the Middle East and would not cede influence to other world powers, according to AFP.
"We will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by China, Russia or Iran," Biden said during a summit in Jeddah, on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia.
New York-based journalist Don DeBar said, "The US is basically telling those who seek to regain their nation's sovereignty - those in Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain, Pakistan and, above all, Palestine - that this will not be allowed.”
"And likewise to those who seek to defend their sovereignty against US hegemony, such as Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, et al,” he said.
He added that "this is also targeted against those in places like Saudi Arabia and the so-called Emirates who seek liberation from the medieval yoke imposed upon them by the US as colonial viceroys, with the message, again, that this will not be permitted."
Biden has been fiercely criticized for his visit to Saudi Arabia, the country he had promised, when running for president in 2019, to make the “pariah that they are” over its human rights abuses, in particular the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi on the direct orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
His fist bumping with the crown prince on Friday during their first in-person interaction was particularly censured by human rights groups and fellow Democrats.
Following the subdued welcome for Biden at the airport in Jeddah and a cold meeting with the crown prince, Biden met Saudi Arabia's King Salman, 86.
It was followed by delegation-level talks between the US president and the Saudi crown prince, sitting across from one another at a large conference table.
The Biden administration appears to be eager to show that its relationship with Saudi Arabia has benefits far beyond oil, with Biden making strenuous efforts to mend fences with the kingdom's leadership.
Biden set to lose re-election over his genocidal policy in Gaza: US journalist
Frightful Biden-Trump rematch planned for November: Analyst
US Empire controlling people's minds to maintain hegemony: Scholar
Iran relies on natural gas for nearly 90% of its power production: Expert
US embassy in Beirut blocks Iraq-Lebanon humanitarian air bridge
VIDEO | UK's Starmer targets journalists
Israel plans to displace Palestinians in occupied West Bank: Hamas
Iranian airlines ramp up Istanbul route flights after EU sanctions
British protesters slam UK’s complicity in Gaza genocide on Balfour day
US surgeon haunted by Gaza children with ‘single gunshot wounds to head’
VIDEO | Iran's possible retaliation against Israel
PressTV NEWSLETTER
now
This makes it easy to access the Press TV website
