Biden's visit to Saudi Arabia was frustrated The responsibility should be borne by the West

Earlier this month, Biden made his first trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia
as president of the United States.
Passers-by know that the focus of Biden's trip to the Middle East is to persuade Saudi Arabia to increase oil production to curb the rise
in global energy prices.
However, in 2019, when Biden punished Saudi Arabia for the murder of dissident journalist Khashoggi, he called Saudi Arabia a "pariah" country, and once again claimed that there was no plan to meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed in the short term
, and now not only "knocked down yesterday's me", but also "touched the fist" when meeting with the other party, which caused public criticism.
In fact, Biden's visit to Saudi Arabia was subject to moral criticism and ineffectiveness at the same time, which is expected, but many of the evaluations are worth considering
.

Biden's eclectic route is easy to be unflattering on both sides

Put simply, political leaders often face a dilemma between interests and morality in their foreign affairs
.
Realists believe that political leaders inevitably need to negotiate with bloody dictators to protect the interests of their own citizens; Human rights supremacists stress that political leaders must distance themselves from human rights-indifferent dictators and should not betray victims
for economic or geopolitical gain.

Biden's exposure of the confidential report of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence that determined that the Saudi crown prince was behind the killing of Khashoggi, on the other hand, and on the other hand, only sanctioned the cronies of the Saudi crown prince involved in the case will attract criticism from both realists and human rights supremacists
.

Some realists believe that Biden has brought bitter results to himself, but some realists believe that Biden's encounter with this trip will bring pain to the United States in the short term, but in the long run, it may help the US-Saudi Arabia relations to get back on track
.
But from the perspective of human rights, Biden's meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed is tantamount to breaking his word and surrendering
to the dictator.

Tracing back to the source, the fermentation of the Khashoggi murder case is also related
to Turkey's continuous release of materials.
Although Turkey was righteous and stern when it accused Saudi Arabia, it was by no means bent on seeking justice for Khashoggi
.
Turkey is subject to US economic sanctions, and its disclosure of the details of the case to the outside world can objectively put the United States in an embarrassing situation
.

In addition, Turkey had hoped to use the Khashoggi incident to undermine Saudi Arabia's leadership among Muslim Sunni countries, but its economy has deteriorated in recent years, and it urgently needs to ease relations with many neighboring countries to improve its economy
.
That is why in April Turkey suspended the trial of Khashoggi's murder and transferred the case to Saudi Arabia, and its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received the Saudi crown prince
in Ankara in June.
The problem is that the United States from time to time flaunts its moral responsibility to actively defend global human rights, but now Biden has done similar actions to Erdogan, which is naturally inevitable to fierce criticism
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The energy climate crisis is not Biden's fault

In any case, it is not fair
to blame the Biden administration entirely for the main crisis facing the West.
Indeed, before Russia officially invaded Ukraine, the former had cracked down on dissident journalists and activists from time to time, but Europe and the United States did not comprehensively sanction Russian energy or accelerate its energy
independence.
In addition, when Khashoggi's torture and murder were exposed, many European countries did not claim to boycott Saudi energy
.

Thus, in recent years, Western political leaders have not had much determination to wean themselves off the energy dependence
of authoritarian countries.
By this standard, Biden is no more hypocritical
than any other political leader in the Western camp.
The energy crisis caused by the West's hasty sanctions against Russia in recent months is actually the result of the collective evil caused by Western leaders in recent years, and the responsibility should naturally be borne
by them.

In other words, the foreign policy of Europe and the United States often does not talk only about human rights or only about interests
.
Iran has executed many dissidents in the past 40 years, but was it because of human rights concerns that then-President Barack Obama and the European Union leader agreed to the Iran nuclear deal in 2015 and then opposed Trump's reopening of sanctions on Iran?

In the past, the original intention of the West and Iran to sign a nuclear deal was to normalize trade in exchange for the other side abandoning the development of nuclear weapons and gradually improving the human rights situation at home
.
However, the West is not pushing for the normalization of relations with the other side on the premise that the human rights situation in Iran has improved significantly
.
It can be said that the West also made compromises
on the issue of human rights in Iran at that time.
Soon after Trump was elected president of the United States, he unilaterally withdrew from the relevant agreements on the grounds that "the terms of the nuclear agreement
are full of loopholes, and Iran can easily develop nuclear weapons in secret.
" With this development, Iran has been active in recent years to high-profile refining the enriched uranium needed to develop its nuclear weapons, and the rise of hard-line conservatives at home
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Trump's Middle East policy is taking root Biden is difficult to do as he wishes

The development trend of Iran's political situation, whether it is the connivance of Obama's Middle East policy or Trump's disregard for the spirit of the agreement, has been a controversial issue
.
It is also worth mentioning that Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital and the formulation of a "new Middle East peace plan" that allows Israel to occupy most of the West Bank are based on contempt for
Palestine.

Biden has a subjective desire to revise Trump's Middle East policy, but the influence of Trump's Middle East policy has gradually taken root, and the geopolitical situation has changed, so it is difficult for Biden to act simply according to his own wishes; Even if it is reluctant, it may not be effective
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Of course, there is also a left-wing critical approach that holds that because the global warming crisis is the result of the excessive energy consumption of mankind in the past, Biden should not beg any dictator to increase energy production, but should lead the world to endure the pain of reducing greenhouse gas emissions
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But the midterm elections are approaching, and asking voters to tighten their pants and live a hard life will only make the election situation more serious
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Therefore, whether this statement is reasonable or not, it is difficult for Biden to declare it at this time
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As for the claim that "Trump's re-election as president will not put the United States in a diplomatic passiveness," it is only a hypothesis that
can never be proven.
During his presidency, in addition to his obvious toughness against Iran and favoritism toward Israel and Saudi Arabia, Trump was known
for not acting according to common sense in handling many other foreign affairs.
Purely based on the past performance of the sandbox, Trump may either renege on the issue of Ukraine's accession to NATO, sometimes claim to support Ukraine's right to self-determination to join NATO, sometimes echo the position of others opposing NATO expansion, or recklessly respond to Russia's military threat, making the world situation more dangerous
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Whether it is a loyal Trump supporter or a person who hates him so much, they can find some examples of "evidence" that amplifies their own position in favor of their own position, while at the same time downplaying it against their own position with selective blindness
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