America is betting on the dispute between the Saudi Crown Prince and Putin, and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is pressing


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And the beginning of the visit of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, during which he met with the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and also held a public meeting with the foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. The episode confirms Blinken's failure - according to the Hebrew media - to make progress on the Saudi-Israeli normalization file, which the current US administration seeks to complete quickly before the US presidential elections next year. While the meeting of the US Secretary of State with the foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council witnessed Washington's assurances of its survival in the Middle East, and its quest for security cooperation with the countries of the region against the challenges posed by Iran.

On the other hand, The New York Times said that the White House is trying to exploit the current differences between Russia and Saudi Arabia over oil production cuts within OPEC to end what the United States considers to be strategic cooperation between Moscow and Riyadh. The episode stresses that a significant part of Saudi Arabia's recent decision to cut another million barrels of production was to counter flooding global markets with American oil, more than to counter Russia's insistence on selling its oil without restriction to finance its war in Ukraine.