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Peace Breaking Out
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| Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report. | |
| Peace is breaking out in the Middle East and Washington is not happy. | |
| While we were being distracted by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war in Washington's increasing involvement in the war, tremendous developments in the Middle East have all but ended decades of U.S. meddling in the region. | |
| Peace is breaking out in the Middle East and Washington is not at all happy about it. | |
| Take for example the recent mending of relations between Saudi Arabia and formerly bitter adversaries Iran and Syria. | |
| A China brokered deal between the Saudis in Iran has them reestablishing full diplomatic relations with the foreign ministers of both countries meeting in Beijing last week. | |
| It is the highest level meeting between the two countries in seven years. | |
| Additionally, Riyadh is expected to invite Syria back into the Arab League and Syria President Assad may attend the next Arab League summit. | |
| Syria was suspended from the Arab League 12 years ago when the U.S. allies in the Middle East signed on to Washington's Assad Moscow policy that wreaked havoc across the region. | |
| And the nearly decade-long war in Yemen, which has devastated that population, appears to finally be ending as Saudi Arabia is expected to announce an end to its U.S.-backed war on that country. | |
| Troops from the United Arab Emirates are leaving Yemen and a Saudi delegation is arriving to negotiate a peace deal. | |
| To normal people, the idea of peace breaking out in the Middle East is a wonderful thing. | |
| But Washington is anything but normal. | |
| President Biden dispatched his CIA Director William Burns to Saudi Arabia in a surprise visit last week. | |
| According to press reports, Burns was sent to express Washington's surprise and frustration over the peace deals going through. | |
| Biden's foreign policy team has felt blindsided by Saudi Arabia's sudden move to get along with its neighbors. | |
| Washington is angry that Saudi Arabia will start trading with Syria and Iran because those two countries are still under crippling U.S. sanctions. | |
| One by one, as these countries begin ignoring U.S.-demanded sanctions, the entirety of the U.S. foreign policy is being exposed as a paper tiger. | |
| Just bluster and threats. | |
| Middle East developments have revealed a dirty secret about U.S. foreign policy. | |
| Washington has for a long time used a divide and conquer strategy to keep countries in the Middle East and elsewhere at each other's throats. | |
| Sanctions, covert actions, and color revolutions have all been used to make sure that these countries do not get along with each other and that DC controls who runs the show. | |
| As unlikely as it may seem to some, China has moved into the region with a different policy. | |
| China seeks business partners, not to manipulate the internal politics of the Middle East. | |
| They may be ruthless in their own way, but it is suddenly clear that the countries of this region are tired of U.S. meddling and are looking for a new partner. | |
| We non-interventionists are often attacked as isolationists. | |
| But as I have always said, it is the neocons and interventionists in Washington who are really isolating us from the rest of the world. | |
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Nowhere Is That More Evidence
00:00:17
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| Nowhere is that more evidence these days in the Middle East. | |
| It didn't have to be this way. | |
| But if this is the end of U.S. meddling in the Middle East affairs, then ultimately it is a good thing for the American people and for peace. | |