Silent Lonesome Man

Recent reports from various media outlets indicated that growing dissatisfaction toward the Joe Biden Administration among the Saudi government of the young Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman has led the Crown Prince to shun the U.S. President. This is extremely relevant when Putin's Russia waged an invasion on Ukraine, when the Crown Prince, by a shock move, ghosted Biden but responded to a call by the Russian dictator. Riyadh has demonstrated clearly that it will not respond to any American attempt calling for help unless the United States realigned its policy to Saudi interests, and to further enhance the economic threat, Saudi Arabia has even extended its invitation to Chinese leader Xi Jinping to visit the country and moving toward using Chinese yuan in foreign trade exchange instead of U.S. dollar. President Biden could only make calls with the Crown Prince's father, King Salman . Yet the move of MBS could not come at the time when everything is not in favour of the Crown...

Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia - the three biggest nations in West Asia, or the Middle East, in terms of influence. The history of the three countries is complex, marred between degrees of alliance, cooperation and conflict. The trio is irritated, at least, when going after each other for interests. All three only want to reshape the borders, reclaim what they believe to be the rightful positions three nations' predecessors once got. Such development reminds me of the famous era of China's Three Kingdoms. First the warlord era, different warlords persuaded different dreams. Then, only three warlords showed their merits: Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Jian. They created their own states, fighting for the unification of China before Cao Cao would end up victorious. Of course, Cao Cao would not live to see his Cao Wei empire ended shortly at the hand of the Jin dynasty, which upheld the promise of continuing Cao Cao's dream of conquest and unified China by surprise. The era was histo...