announced oil production cuts around OPEC+. The diplomatic war between the United States and Saudi Arabia has been rapidly escalated and expanded recently. The United States reiterated its old tune, saying that Saudi Arabia's oil production cuts is to help Russia and has no market foundation.
On the one hand, Saudi Arabia donated 400 million US dollars of humanitarian aid funds to Ukraine, proving that Saudi Arabia is absolutely neutral in this war and does not really want to help Russia. On the other hand, it also counterattacked the Biden administration, saying that the so-called "international morality" is actually to protect the Democratic Party's advantageous seat in Congress.
Both sides refused to give in and added threatening chips to each other. Senior U.S. government officials, including Democratic congressmen and other people began to make public and intensive tough stances towards Saudi Arabia. Some demanded a re-examination of the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States, some should immediately stop all arms sales to Saudi Arabia, and some directly threatened to sever diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia.
The allies are now in a completely tense atmosphere.
And Saudi Arabia is not idle either. The United States said that Saudi Arabia promotes OPEC+ production cuts to help Russia. So Saudi Arabia simply mobilizes all OPEC+ member states to stand up and express its statement that slashing production is the unanimous decision of everyone, not just Saudi Arabia's will.
The implication is naturally that OPEC+ member states are collectively opposing Biden government’s request for OPEC+ and canceling the unreasonable demand for the decision to cut production. If the United States wants to retaliate, it will come together for all our Middle East Middle East oil-producing countries.
on social media, the UAE Minister of Energy said that the OPEC+ production cut was a collective unanimous decision, and it was for purely technical considerations and had no political intentions.
Iraqi Petroleum Marketing Organization issued a statement saying that OPEC+ member states unanimously believe that in a time of uncertainty and lack of transparency, the best way to deal with the oil market conditions is to take preemptive measures to support market stability.
Other countries including Kuwait , Oman , Bahrain and other countries all express similar meanings.
In short, the caliber of oil-producing countries in the Middle East is the same. Promoting OPEC+ production cuts is to stabilize the global oil market, not to support Russia. If the United States wants to sanction Saudi Arabia and other oil-producing countries for this reason, it is typical for bullying the small with the big, and for the public to be angry with the big.
Objectively speaking, OPEC+ has made a decision now that it is impossible to go back on its word easily. Therefore, the current actions of the United States are more like a sign of anger and anger, and it is difficult to change the reality.
But as the game between the two sides became fierce, the true attitudes of all parties behind this matter gradually emerged.
Recently Indonesian Finance Minister Sli Muliani said that a senior Saudi official explained to her that Saudi Arabia and OPEC+ made such a decision mainly because they did not want to see oil prices and were regarded as a tool for the game between big powers, helping the United States achieve the goal of geopolitical .
To be honest, this may be the root cause of the fierce competition between the United States and Saudi Arabia. Otherwise, if it is for pure economic interests, the United States, as an oil exporter, is consistent with Saudi Arabia's interests. Only when the oil price is high can American oil companies make money.
If you are afraid of inflation, the United States will simply provide oil subsidies at home. Now, in Russia, , Iran, and other oil-producing countries, the domestic oil price is cheaper than water, which is an example.
Facts have proved that oil-producing countries have ways to bypass international oil prices to lower their domestic oil prices. Therefore, the United States now insists on lowering oil prices, more because of the need to sanction Russia.
But in this way, Saudi Arabia and other countries are unwilling to do so. The Russian-Ukrainian war is because the United States wants to suppress and sanction Russia, and small countries don’t have control over it. However, the United States wants to suppress Russia, but uses Middle East oil-producing countries as weapons to sweep it out, which is a bit disgusting.
The United States is not afraid of Russia's revenge. Are oil-producing countries such as Saudi Arabia also not afraid?
Therefore, Saudi Arabia and other countries promote OPEC+ production cuts in fact to tell the United States that the United States and the West will fight an economic war with Russia and a sanctions war. We cannot interfere without intervention, but we cannot use oil as a weapon, because once the United States does this, it is equivalent to raising oil-producing countries on fire.
Not to mention anything else, if Russia believes that Saudi Arabia and other countries have turned to the United States and start an oil price war with oil-producing countries in the Middle East, the oil-producing countries themselves will suffer losses. What’s even more dangerous is that Russia and Ukraine have already made a real fire now, especially the NATO sea held nuclear exercises to continue to stimulate Russia, and any situation may become a reality in the future.
If Russia believes that oil prices have become the key factor affecting this war, it will not be troublesome to do something in the Middle East with the help of Syria , or even Iran.
Once this happens, the Middle East is equivalent to being passively involved in conflicts between major powers, which is obviously something that major oil-producing countries don’t want to see.
So, the game between Saudi Arabia and the United States is actually the oil-producing countries hope to be neutral in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and not be regarded as a pawn by the United States. The United States wants to use hegemony to force Saudi Arabia and other countries to stand on their own side and deal with Russia together.
From the perspective of international order, this way of forcing people to take sides has always been a habit of the United States, but it is also a despise by other small and medium-sized countries. Now that the United States is taking Saudi Arabia to "sacrifice the flag", other Middle East oil-producing countries naturally empathize. This is why OPEC+ member states have spoken for Saudi Arabia and resisted US hegemony recently.
