According to " Observer Network ", recently, although Biden shows goodwill to Middle East countries many times, "OPEC+" (OPEC+) still announced that it will significantly reduce oil production from November.
What is more hit to the United States is that after OPEC+ announced oil production cuts, the oil company of Saudi Arabia also made a statement, said that Saudi Arabia will lower oil prices for European buyers and raise the sales price to the United States .
It is obvious that Saudi Arabia's move is actually aimed at the United States in terms of oil prices. This naturally caused extreme dissatisfaction among the United States. U.S. officials immediately said that they would "retaliate".
As the largest oil producer in OPEC+, Saudi Arabia was threatened by the United States at the first time. According to the report of the National Public Radio (NPR), in order to "fight back" OPEC+'s production cuts, three members of the U.S. Congress proposed to withdraw troops from Saudi Arabia and the UAE, including the withdrawal of the missile defense system , which is deployed in Saudi Arabia.
These three lawmakers believe that oil production cuts are not only "hostile behavior" by OPEC+ to the United States, but also a "turning point" in relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia. Among them, Congressman Malinowski said that given that OPEC+ "harm" the United States through production cuts, there is no need to protect their safety by garrison.
This is actually a clear threat to Saudi Arabia. The proposal to withdraw troops means that the United States may not provide Saudi protection in the military field in the future. Deeper, it is not ruled out that the United States will directly or indirectly suppress Saudi Arabia. For example, strengthen support for Saudi Arabia's neighboring country Israel, thereby suppressing other countries in the Middle East.
In other words, this proposal by US lawmakers is actually to issue a warning to Saudi Arabia in the military field. However, if the United States really withdraws troops from Saudi Arabia, it will also suffer a serious backlash for the United States itself.
From the overall perspective, if the United States withdraws its troops from Saudi Arabia, it means that the United States' influence in the entire Middle East will drop significantly, which is actually a decrease in control over oil. In fact, it can be expected that by then, the power vacancy caused by the withdrawal of the United States should be filled by other forces in a short period of time. After all, oil has a huge attraction to countries around the world.
From this point of view, if there are forces other than the United States to fill the oil power gap in the Middle East, it will be uncertain whether it will be beneficial to other countries, but it will definitely not be worth the loss for the United States. In the long run, if the United States gradually loses control over oil, it is very likely to affect the settlement of oil's dollar, which may also indirectly strike the hegemony of the dollar.
In general, although the proposal to withdraw troops seems to be a threat to Saudi Arabia, if it is really implemented, it will also be "killing one thousand enemies and harming eight hundred of them."
It is worth noting that while US lawmakers issued a warning to Saudi Arabia, US Treasury Secretary Yellen suddenly stood up to express his "concern" for developing countries . Recently, Yellen, in a telephone interview with the Financial Times, said that due to the production cuts of OPEC+, the United States is now "very worried" about the situation of those developing countries.
Yellen believes that the measures to reduce production by OPEC+ will increase the economic burden on developing countries. On the surface, Yellen's remarks seem to be entirely for the sake of other countries, but anyone with discerning eyes knows that Yellen actually wants to bring pressure on OPEC+ by saying this.
First of all, it was mentioned earlier that Saudi Arabia has not raised oil prices to other countries except the United States, and not all countries, like those of the United States, do their best to impose sanctions on Russia. Many developing countries can actually enjoy low-priced energy from Russia, including oil.
And Yellen's move is actually an attempt to "tickle" these developing countries and the United States on a rope, so as to put more pressure on OPEC+ with their power.
But looking at the US's practices in recent years, we can actually find that the main reason for aggravating the economic pressure in these developing countries is actually the United States. Judging from the specific actions of the United States in recent times, although it is shouting "energy shortage has exacerbated the economic crisis of ", the United States itself is actually taking the opportunity to make huge profits.
According to " Global Network ", when most European countries are facing energy shortage, the United States took the opportunity to sell high-priced energy. The United States' move has also aroused dissatisfaction among many countries such as Germany and France.
From the perspective of the overall international development trend, the United States continues to impose sanctions on Russia, spreading the food crisis and the energy crisis to the world, resulting in a certain impact on the industry, economy, and even the basic living security of the people in many countries.
At the same time, in order to alleviate its own inflationary pressure, the United States frequently raises interest rates for the US dollar . This move not only has negative impacts on the global economy, but also has to pay for the economic pressure of the United States.
It is not difficult to see from this that the United States itself has caused losses to countries around the world, especially developing countries. Now it begins to show what is called "care and worry", essentially for its own benefit.
combined with the recent warnings issued by the United States to OPEC+ and Saudi Arabia, they are actually all about oil, which can also indirectly reflect that the reduction in oil production has indeed brought considerable impact on the United States. In addition, this may also indicate that the oil pattern in the international community is changing now, that is, it is gradually breaking away from the control of Western countries.
According to the current situation, after the United States gradually loses control of oil, it is almost equivalent to losing its constraints on countries around the world, especially in the industrial field, which may further accelerate the dissipation of the United States' hegemony .
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