Analysis: The Saudi-U.S. relationship was always a marriage of convenience
, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby rejected that explanation and accused Saudi Arabia of tacitly supporting the war in Ukraine.The relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States is a strange one.that binds the United States with Saudi Arabia. Instead, it’s a marriage of convenience centered on oil and oil alone.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was returning from the Yalta Conference in 1945 when he stopped in Egypt to meet with some of the most important leaders from the Middle East and Africa, including King Farouk of Egypt and Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.There was also a lesser-known name on the list: The first Saudi king, Abdul Aziz ibn Saud.
to be the first time he had left his kingdom. He brought eight sheep with him to the USS Quincy, where he met Roosevelt, to be slaughtered for dinner.Their discussion was not focused on oil, butdiplomatic support and military training for the then-fledgling kingdom, in return for political support in the region — and, of course, access to Saudi Arabia’s reserves.
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