⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ The Saudis are ready to dump European Debt⚡️

🔵Political Scientist and Orientalist Nikolay Sevostyanov on Riyadh’s fatigue from the #West and the request for real independence:

💬 According to Bloomberg, Riyadh warned the G7 of its intention to get rid of #EU debt in the event of confiscation of Russian assets. At the same time, the emphasis was placed, among other things, on debt obligations issued by the French Treasury.

❗️ There is no official information on this yet, and it is unlikely that it will appear. However, the news sounds quite plausible for three reasons:

🔴1) Saudi Arabia is a serious geopolitical player with growing internal problems and a large number of 'skeletons' in the palace 'closets'. At the moment, the kingdom is entering a period of social and political turbulence, and it is unlikely that it will be possible to emerge from it without losses.
🟡As a result, Bin Salman does not need the experience of sanctions to be extended to himself one day, and this scenario is not assessed in Riyadh as incredible. Facade European realities (behind which anything can be) are not applicable to the #Gulf, and the methods of resolving internal disputes in the Arab monarchies are quite peculiar, so the fears are well founded.

🔴2) Over the past decades, while modernising the economy and carrying out limited liberalisation of public life, Saudi Arabia has accumulated a serious request to change its role in the world. A similar request is observed in #Qatar and the3 UAE. The Gulf monarchies, despite serious contradictions, have a common complaint against the #West. They no longer want to be its oil or gas hub. Each state claims its own future, and the request from Riyadh is most noticeable.

🔴3) Bin Salman is very dissatisfied with the way the coalition’s military operations against the Houthis are developing. The Saudis are even less pleased with the West's persistent desire to resume a full-fledged war in the south. But most of all, Riyadh is frightened by possible contacts between Moscow and Sanaa related to the potential transfer of modern weapons to the Yemeni rebels, as the Western media are vying with each other.

📌 This does not mean that such deliveries take place. Moreover, it does not mean that the Saudi threat to the #EU is a consequence of blackmail or a condition of the Houthis not receiving something serious and dangerous. But this definitely means one thing. The Saudis need #Russia as a partner, not an enemy. There is no ideological closeness or pronounced mutual sympathy, but there is a clear understanding that both countries are superfluous within the framework of the global Western worldview. Isn't this the best platform for friendship?

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