{"id":9089,"date":"2021-02-01T01:04:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T05:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=9089"},"modified":"2021-02-01T01:04:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T05:04:37","slug":"us-love-rush-with-iran-but-cold-feet-with-the-uae-and-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2021\/02\/01\/us-love-rush-with-iran-but-cold-feet-with-the-uae-and-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"US love rush with Iran, but cold feet with the UAE and Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mr. Biden is in much rush to re-enter a nuclear deal\nwith Iran (with the latter setting the conditions). As a reminder, he even began\nnegotiating with Iran even before Mr. Trump finished his term. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, we learn from Naharnet <\/em>that Mr. Biden is freezing\nF-35 jets to the UAE and weapons to Saudi Arabia to take the time to think in\norder to ensure that “U.S. arms sales meet our strategic objectives of\nbuilding stronger, interoperable and more capable security partners<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is hard not to suspect that the two moves are\nlikely related, given that one entity is the enemy of the two others. One must\nadd that one entity (Iran) is military expanding in the Middle East to the\npoint of pushing some countries into the arms of Israel (their historic enemy)\nthrough the Abraham Accords. Plus, look at Lebanon. In reality, it is like an\nIranian colony now (without the official title, of course).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Add to all this the American so-called \u201cexistential<\/em>\u201d\nclimate and environment executive orders. Taken together, we can guess where\nthe US new administration is heading. Indeed, from far, and in the short-term\nat least, it seems to be in a position of weakness. Bizarre as when we are in a\nnegotiation process, we usually have our maximum potential of power. If the US\nappears weak now, imagine how it will be in the end down the road: Not very\npromising for the safety of the Middle East, and thus the world. Not very promising\nfor the clean air and water (from missile testing or possible conflicts). Plus,\nthe US will eventually become increasingly dependent on foreign oil (like\nGermany or France with Russia)\u2026 but at least, it will have a good conscience\nwith the climate whilst pleasing those stakeholders who often earn a good living\nto generate theories that can ultimately weaken economies, even if it is in the\nname of \u201cclimate justice<\/em>\u201d or to protect \u201cMother<\/em> earth<\/em>\u201d, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, all the above is ultimately the US choice,\nas a country. Bambi is posting on this only because it is directly affecting our\nCanadian oil and gas sector, in pandemic times on top of that.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may be in total disagreement with Bambi. Some have\nbeen busy lately calling pipelines odd names like \u201cracist<\/em>\u201d or even \u201cwhite\nsupremacist<\/em>\u201d ?.\nWho knows? You may not have an opinion on this or do not care. You may also feel\nfor all those workers losing their jobs yet be ecological and happy now, like\nMr. Blanchet (as per his tweets).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To conclude this post with her own opinion, Bambi will say the following: She may be wrong, but she believes that, despite its (or Trudeau\u2019s?) globalist ambitions, Canada is\/remains a smaller player in both the world\u2019s economy and global pollution. So why have we increased the carbon tax? And why are we so radical in our positions on pipelines forgetting the risk of train tragedies like the horrible Lac M\u00e9gantic disaster? What will we do, if God forbid, another similar tragedy takes place in another part of the country? Finally, as far as the Middle East is concerned, Bambi is sad to see Iran\u2019s increasing hegemony on her birth country :(. When will Lebanon be finally truly sovereign and not dependent on all the powerful countries of the world, including its neighbours or\u2026 Bambi\u2019s neighbour?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/536585-biden-faces-deadline-pressure-on-iran-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/www.naharnet.com\/stories\/en\/278935-biden-freezes-uae-saudi-arms-sales-for-review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mr. Biden is in much rush to re-enter a nuclear deal with Iran (with the latter setting the conditions). As a reminder, he even began negotiating with Iran even before Mr. Trump finished his term. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9092,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089\/revisions\/9092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}