Among the things both Russia and the high-level Arab leaders visiting Moscow want is developing Arab-Russian relations to overcome the barriers erected by Russian-Iranian relations and the doubts and mistrust they caused; and second, filling the void left behind by US President Barack Obama’s policies on the Arab Gulf and Egypt, which have strained US-Arab relations. Yet this does not mean that the Gulf nations, Egypt, and Jordan have decided to discard the United States and are about to replace it with Russia as their security partner. The visit by Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz next week to Washington …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
