Sosok.ID – Saudi Arabia continues to experience setbacks, loss of direction and influence in the Gulf region and Middle East.
More than 50 years after the kingdom began to gain prominence regionally and internationally as a key member of OPEC and the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the kingdom is now on a steady decline path.
Launch from Al Jazeera (22/9/2020), though Saudi Arabia is home to Islam’s holiest sites and the world’s second-largest oil reserve, but misguided policies have cost things a lot.
What started off as a promising and ambitious push by the Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS), soon turned into a reckless venture.
Guided by Mohammed Bin Zayed (MBZ) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), MBS runs the kingdom all the way to the country.
However, nothing witnessed Saudi Arabia’s decline more than the sudden emergence of its junior counterpart as a warlike regional power, meddling in Libya and Tunisia and supporting dictators and war criminals, such as Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Bashar al-Assad’s Syria.
Abu Dhabi recklessly ran forward and dragged Saudi Arabia with it.
It is also a testament to MBS’s support for MBZ’s move to link Gulf security with Israel as a way to protect their regional rule and influence.
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