American academic and political analyst Richard Falk suspected that the foreign policy establishment in Washington is inhibited by the fear that Saudi Arabia might become tempted to shift its alignment in a direction more in line with China and Russia.
Falk made the remarks on Sunday in an exclusive interview with Press TV while commenting on US warnings to Saudi Arabia after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies (OPEC+), in which Riyadh is a top producer, announced last week it would cut oil production.
Falk is an American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, and a former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.
“Biden and the US swallowed a lot of harsh criticism for maintaining such a friendly relationship with Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the 2018 brazen murder in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul of the respected journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, who was long a Washington resident,” said Falk......More Here---->
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