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Posted By: Dreadnought, 3/8/2022 8:29:29 PM

Leaders in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates declined calls with President Biden as the war in Ukraine intensified, Middle East and U.S. officials told The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. "There was some expectation of a phone call, but it didn't happen," a U.S. official told the Journal regarding a call between Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. "It was part of turning on the spigot [of Saudi oil]." UAE leader Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed also declined a call from Biden, according to the officials. Officials told the outlet that US relations with the two Gulf countries have been strained over the Biden administration's lack

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Dreadnought 3/8/2022 8:33:02 PM (No. 1094275)
The Hill must have missed the paragraph in the Journal's article that pointed out that both Saudi Arabia and the Emirates took calls from Putin last week after rejecting Biden’s attempt. And, they also spoke with Ukraine's president.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Italiano 3/8/2022 8:41:13 PM (No. 1094278)
The same UAE people that signed the Abraham Accords with Israel during the Trump Administration?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: GoodDeal 3/8/2022 8:43:27 PM (No. 1094281)
Hahaha i can see the caller ID on their phones SCAM LIKELY pop up!!! No answer, as soon as he hangs up hit Block Caller!!!! Don’t call us we’re busy!!!
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Daria 3/8/2022 8:43:30 PM (No. 1094282)
UAE during the Trump years: We'll sign on to the Abraham Accords. UAE during the Biden years: Busy signal.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 3/8/2022 8:52:30 PM (No. 1094284)
I'll never, ever forget that 15 of the 19 hijackers on September 11, 2001, were Saudis. Saudi Arabia is not our friend.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: czechlist 3/8/2022 9:02:51 PM (No. 1094290)
Has any foreign leader ever ignored/rejected a call from POTUS? does slojo know he has been humiliated? It calls for a quadruple scoop of rocky road
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Rich323 3/8/2022 9:39:51 PM (No. 1094307)
Biden has been wrong from day one in the Senate on foreign policy. His ineptness and failure continues except he’s in charge now and not a minion executing for someone else like Obama or Soros.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: downnout 3/8/2022 10:07:21 PM (No. 1094320)
Tell me again how Joe Biden was going to make America respected.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: rochow 3/8/2022 10:39:17 PM (No. 1094343)
This jerk, who spend 50 years in politics, is just too dumb to realize how his word salads and hideous 'deals' with other nations make him enemy #1. The most awful deal that dumber than a brick Blinken and Kerry and the Russians, yes, the Russians worked out on our behalf will give the Iranians the possibility to nuke Saudi Arabia, Israel and anyone else they don't like. Hey, Bidet, why would anyone want to talk to you?? Who wants to hear your slurred lies, and your disgusting bragging! They hate you! Get it man??Come on, even a moron like you should understand why they hate you! Open up American oil, you absolute moron and shut that waitress strumpet AOC up and the rest of that nothing group.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: ussjimmycarter 3/8/2022 10:53:01 PM (No. 1094349)
They won’t even take the call of POTUS! Wow! Probably never happened before! We are a joke as a country on the world stage!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Highlander 3/9/2022 1:09:12 AM (No. 1094392)
The Arabs see him as nothing more than a wooden life-size humanoid puppet. They’re not fooled, like the 39% of idiot American voters.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Trigger2 3/9/2022 5:12:54 AM (No. 1094431)
Why take a phone call from an incompetent brain-dead moron?
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Reply 13 - Posted by: mifla 3/9/2022 5:23:55 AM (No. 1094446)
Biden is too demented to realilze that the Arabs just b slapped him.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Strike3 3/9/2022 7:38:26 AM (No. 1094539)
I wouldn't take a call from old cabbage head either. He's obviously going to ask them to turn their oil faucets on for us while we sit on ours. The only thing muslims give us is their illegal immigrants.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Old Army Vet 3/9/2022 7:46:20 AM (No. 1094549)
A complete disaster is the Xiden administration. I cannot think of enough descriptive adjectives to show their level of incompetence.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: F15 Gork 3/9/2022 7:54:21 AM (No. 1094564)
Can’t blame them, I wouldn’t take a call from this Schiff-hole either!
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Reply 17 - Posted by: udanja99 3/9/2022 8:00:02 AM (No. 1094572)
Reminds me of a video from the 0bama years…Smidgen had gone to an international conference somewhere (can’t remember) and was standing in a receiving line with the other world leaders. As guests made their way down the line shaking hands, many of them skipped right past 0bama and shook the next guys hand. They had no respect for him or fear of him. And now he’s running the show again. That’s how we got here.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: jhpeters2 3/9/2022 8:20:09 AM (No. 1094599)
Why talk to Xiden? On stage would you converse with the hind quarters of a pantomime horse? Because of the 0bama/Xiden policies the world is smart to ignore him. In this play Xiden doesn't rehearse. At all.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Chiritwo 3/9/2022 8:29:04 AM (No. 1094613)
It only took a year to go this far down. There are two parties - where are the republicans?
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Reply 20 - Posted by: Zigrid 3/9/2022 8:34:39 AM (No. 1094622)
It's obvious...no one wants to talk with biden...because he's not in charge...obama is...and he's hell bent on giving Iran a nuke...so I don't blame them...who cares what flavor ice cream biden wants.....
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Reply 21 - Posted by: snowoutlaw 3/9/2022 8:47:39 AM (No. 1094638)
They can't be seen as talking orders from the US. Do it in private and they would probably consider the request, make it public 'forget it pal'. FJB is such an idiot.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: RayLRiv 3/9/2022 9:15:25 AM (No. 1094668)
"Silly rabbit. Trix are for kids!" Silly Brandon - our oil is for our friends!
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Reply 23 - Posted by: Trapper 3/9/2022 9:51:01 AM (No. 1094729)
I'll bet they still take calls from our REAL president. Trump won.
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Reply 24 - Posted by: synchronicity 3/9/2022 10:37:40 AM (No. 1094813)
I wouldn't take a call from him either.
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Reply 25 - Posted by: MDConservative 3/9/2022 10:39:57 AM (No. 1094821)
OPEC isn't going to adjust its negotiated production to support the US or West. They were pressured to do so to support higher market prices so Western producers could turn a profit. And now it goes kaflooey on the West. Oil well over $100, some say headed to $200/bbl. BTW: Whatever happened to those loaded tankers used for surplus storage when oil prices were sub-$50 not long ago?
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Reply 26 - Posted by: broken01 3/9/2022 11:26:47 AM (No. 1094888)
Not only would I not take the Jotato's call I have any futures ones rerouted to the nearest gold souk or Direct TV call center.
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Reply 27 - Posted by: Robert Jones 3/9/2022 12:02:03 PM (No. 1094922)
What's the point? He won't remember what he talked about. We get a very rehearsed and sanitized presentation from him. I would give anything to meet him privately and have a casual conversation with him. I bet he is in cloud cuckoo land at most times.
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Reply 28 - Posted by: JackBurton 3/9/2022 12:20:24 PM (No. 1094949)
Tell me again how disrespected we were in the world under Trump.
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