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Security arrangements in the Asia-Pacific are being realigned as NATO looks to the region for an Asian version of the trans-Atlantic alliance.

Although U.S.-Saudi bilateral ties are on the mend, ambiguities and the transactional nature of the 1945 oil-for-security covenant contribute to mistrust and tensions. The burden of fixing or stabilizing the relationship is a shared responsibility. It’s time for Washington and Riyadh to reconfigure their security ties in accordance with new U.S. geopolitical priorities and new Saudi defense requirements. This report lays out such a process.

Operation Desert Storm was a defining moment in U.S.-Saudi security relations. However, it happened more than three decades ago — in a very different era in U.S. foreign policy and a very different regional and international context. U.S. interests in the region have changed considerably since, and so have the threats to those interests. Moreover, if its withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 is any indication, America’s willingness to go to war again in the Middle East has eroded.

The flap with the United States raises concerns about how China wields its power in a climate where one wrong move could set off an accidental conflict.

Western sanctions on Russia so far has brought only nightmare and unimaginable sufferings to their own natives, while such sanctions have no real impact