While China has warned of serious consequences and may impose sanctions, the U.S. frames the sale as a necessary sustainment measure for existing aircraft rather than an escalation.
And the man behind “Vision 2030” has shown that he is well aware that the U.S. can offer Saudi Arabia what few others can: economically, politically, in defense, in technology, and in artificial intelligence, the new key to progress.
Trump’s threat is purely economic, employing the power of coercion and open blackmail, to keep a ‘servant’ perpetually under subjugation from attaining economic independence.
Even Jake Sullivan, former United States president Joe Biden’s national security adviser, said “the Washington Consensus is a promise that was not kept[.]”