In an attempt to wash his blood-tainted reputation, MBS invited heads of state, representatives of financing institutions, experts and managers of major companies to a major international conference to combat global warming and to identify new sources of energy.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman claims he dreams of a green Saudi Arabia with clean air, and a world with no pollution and fear of global warming emissions.
The relationship between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and America is still lukewarm and characterized by political stagnation, which prompted Washington to cancel the visit of the US Secretary of Defense to Saudi Arabia, to meet bin Salman, as he holds the position of Minister of Defense in the Kingdom.
Bin Salman and his media said that he was the one who postponed the visit, but the US administration confirmed that it had changed the dates of the visit of its defense minister, and Bin Salman had no interference.
For a short time, the United States announced the removal of the Patriot missiles that were installed in Saudi Arabia in 2019 and transferred to the Asian arena as a defense against a possible Chinese attack, which angered the Saudi government.
After the Saudi newspaper, Okaz, published a critical article, aiming to state that Saudi Arabia should search for alternatives to its relations with the United States, Biden tried to alleviate this tension, and sent National Security Adviser Jake Saliban to Riyadh to hold a meeting with bin Salman. The speakers of the US administration clarified that the meeting aimed to discuss human rights and the war in Yemen, which cast a shadow over the relationship between the two countries, but the United States demanded the establishment of diplomatic relations and normalization with Israel, which is something that bin Salman is currently trying to work on.
If bin Salman is trying to flirt with America by preserving the environment, would he be able to turn the kingdom’s land green? To wipe off the blood he shed? Or force it to drink the blood of the victims and those unjustly killed in his prisons? Or to wipe off the tears of children and women after they lost their families and were deprived of fathers and husbands, because of the extensive arbitrary arrests of thousands of men in Saudi Arabia.
