We find that Russia and Iran continue recklessly seeking to overthrow the international order and the leadership of the United States.

In light of the increase in Houthi terrorist attacks against civilians and civilian facilities in Saudi Arabia, and in light of the Ukrainian crisis, we may highlight several points.

Many people believe mistakenly that the international order led by the US is a matter of tactical or strategic positions as if the US chose its role. No, it’s a matter of inevitableness, as the US did not choose to build or lead, but rather as a result of the two world wars.

With the current data, China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, North Korea and Iran, combined, are unable to compete with the United States or overthrow the international order until the data changes.

Russian actions in Ukraine will undoubtedly affect the international order temporarily. Still, it is not in power to overthrow the international order, no matter how Russia insinuates otherwise.

The Russian moves in the military, energy, and currency matters are at best just an attempt to rise within the international order. Still, it may lead to results that contradict what the Russians planned in the first place.

We have two different approaches. The first includes China and Saudi Arabia, adopting a process that does not seek to challenge the international order or challenge the United States in its leadership.

On the other hand, we find that Russia and Iran continue recklessly seeking to overthrow the international order and the leadership of the United States.

The two approaches seek to create a new multipolar international order. The Chinese-Saudi approach plays within the laws of the international order. At the same time, the Russian-Iranian approach is reckless, as it does not allow to continue in the game in a targeted manner.

The truth is that the Chinese-Saudi approach is working on a sound understanding that the emergence or end of international order is linked to the inevitableness, not strategy, waiting for the opportunity, not recklessly trying to create it.

Iran is weak where its strength stems from practicing terrorism covered by the West and does not represent a dilemma for the US or the international order. Still, it is a dilemma for some US administrations that play recklessly against the inevitableness.

What threatens the US leadership in the world and its influence, is not the Chinese-Saudi axis or the Russian-Iranian axis, but it’s that some US administrations and politicians play against the inevitableness. It creates more loopholes that will undoubtedly be exploited.

The US policy of condoning or appeasing practiced by Obama-Biden administrations towards Iran against the strongest ally of the US in the Middle East is playing against the inevitableness, which led to the fall of at least three countries in the region under Russian influence.

The weak American stance towards the Iranian terrorist activities against the Saudis is eventually what gave Russia the strength to invade Ukraine and allowed the impressive achievement of OPEC+.

Turki al-Owerde is an independent Political Analyst and Commentator from Saudi Arabia. He tweets under @Turki_AlOwerde.

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“There was some expectation of a phone call, but it didn’t happen,” a U.S. official told WSJ. “It was part of turning on the spigot [of Saudi oil]”.

It further stated that, Riyadh has signaled that its relationship with Washington has deteriorated due to Biden administration’s wrong policies towards the Gulf region. 

UAE also stands by the Saudi concerns about the restrained U.S. response to the recent missile strikes by Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen against the interests of UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Moreover, both the monarchies are concerned about the revival of the Iran nuclear deal, which doesn’t address their security concerns, and has entered into the final states of negotiations in the recent weeks.

However, Biden is running after the two gulf allies to repair the relations as the oil prices surge over $130 per barrel, which is for the first time in the 14 years. Saudi Arabia and UAE are the two key oil producers in the region that can pump millions of more barrels of more oil if they wish to, so that the crude market prices can calm down.

The National Security Council’s Middle East Coordinator Brett McGurk, and the State Department’s Energy Envoy Amos Hochstein, both traveled to Saudi Arabia in February to mend the ties with the Kingdom. Later, McGurk met with Sheikh Mohammed in Abu Dhabi in a bid to address UAE’s anger over the U.S. response to the Houthi attacks.

A U.S. official said, “the Biden administration has worked diligently to strengthen Saudi and Emirati missile defenses, and that America would be doing more in the coming months to help the two Gulf nations protect themselves. However, it may not be everything the two countries want, but U.S. is trying hard to address their security concerns”.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia and UAE have declined to pump more oil, while sticking to the production plan approved among the members of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The energy alliance with Russia has enhanced OPEC’s power and also brought the two gulf monarchies closer to Moscow.

Saudi Arabia and UAE started keeping away from United States after Biden publicly reprimanded Saudi Arabia’s legitimate action in aiding Yemen’s sovereignty against Iran-backed Houthi terrorism.

Biden also reversed the move taken by his predecessor Mr. Donald Trump, that put the Houthis on the America’s official list of global terrorists. Due to which, the efforts to broker a cease-fire deal between Yemeni forces and the Houthis were ruined.

UAE ambassador to United States Yousef Al-Otaiba said last week, that the relations between the two countries were strained. He said, “It is like any relationship. It has strong days where the relationship is very healthy and days where the relationship is under question. Today, we’re going through a stress test, but I am confident that we will get out of it and get to a better place”.

On the other hand, when Saudi Crown Prince was asked by The Atlantic magazine whether Biden misunderstood him or not. Prince responded, “Simply, I do not care”.