The “secret Saudi deal” once more proves two issues about President Joe Biden. One, he all the time lies. Two, he’s horrible at international coverage.
To the primary, Biden and his staff insisted to the media that his fist-bump go to with Mohammed bin Salman in July had nothing to do with oil. However it had all the things to do with oil: The New York Instances studies Biden thought he had a “secret deal” to maintain prices low. Then, after all, Saudi Arabia and the remainder of OPEC+ minimize oil provides this month, elevating costs — a bitter humiliation.
However why did Biden suppose he had this deal? “Handshake agreements, wishful pondering, missed alerts and finger-pointing over damaged guarantees,” the Instances says. In different phrases: malarkey.
It might shock you to know that the one man to oppose the Osama bin Laden raid, the man who bungled the pullout from Afghanistan, the president who can’t pronounce the identify of the UK prime minister and the chief who nonetheless pursues the horrible Iran deal might be hoodwinked by “wishful pondering.” Lord have mercy.
