Last week’s meeting between Russia and Saudi Arabia to deepen cooperation in energy and other sectors shows that Moscow is serious about splitting Riyadh away from its long-time ally, the U.S. It also accords with China’s plans to roll-out its multi-generational power-grab project – ‘One Belt, One Road’ While the U.S. is looking to re-define its Middle East strategy, many countries in this region have started to drift toward the East. The meeting last week between Russian Deputy Prime Minister, Alexander Novak, and Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, to discuss broadening and deepening the two countries cooperation in the energy sector and others marks a key point in the ongoing attempts by Moscow to decisively split the Kingdom away from its long-time ally, the US. This strategy aligns with the ultimate intention of Russia and China to neuter US influence across the Middle East, which, in […]