Mohammed bin Salman’s regime strengthened its relations with Greece for several reasons which eventually led to a major confusion in foreign policies and revealed its failure in dealing with foreign relations due to the lack of experience of the Saudi Crown Prince.
Greece is a poor country living on aid with an ambiguous future, and its only card is being Europe's gateway for the Arabs. It went bankrupt more than once, and its economy has collapsed, which does not make the Gulf people look forward to this rapprochement and alliance with it as it does not have any economic importance with the Gulf countries
The value of Saudi Arabia’s exports to Greece in 2010 was only 0.65% of the Saudi’s total exports, most of which are crude oil and its products, while KSA imports from Greece cotton seeds, paving stones, marble, and the exchange of ambassadors.
In recent years, Saudi Arabia has followed the path of Egypt and the UAE in attracting Greece to their side against Turkey, due to the political differences between them.
years ago, a document was leaked titled “Very Secret and Urgent” signed by King Salman, inviting the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to strengthen its cooperation with Greece in all fields and to direct the King Abdullah International Center for Dialogue to get closer to the Orthodox Church, due to its impact on political decision-making in Greece.
After the arrival of Joe Biden to the White House who threatened before his arrival to position to reduce military support for KSA, and opens the file of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Bin Salman's relations with Greece improved and accelerated the negotiations with it on February 20 (just a month after Biden's inauguration).
This was accompanied by the establishment of two joint air exercises, the first in March at Souda Air Base in Greece, and the second in June at King Faisal Air Base in the KSA. A deal was also signed to supply the KSAwith Patriots, with the deployment of Greek military personnel, provided that Riyadh covers transportation costs and battery modernization.
The cooperation between the two countries also included the signing of a cooperation agreement in the sustainable coastal and marine tourism, and Athens expressing its desire to participate in the implementation of Vision 2030, while Riyadh offered to provide the necessary support to Greece is facing the wave of fires, and offer that it did not make to Turkey at the same time.
All this role that Greece played with bin Salman, is nothing more than following Trump's approach to drain Saudi money, as he called it, as Greece plays the role of a military contractor only, and earns from these relations huge money, in light of the increasing fear of the Saudis from Houthi attacks, Suadi has kept the details of all the deals it signed with Greece, which reflects relations of hidden, undeclared dimensions.
Greece, then, is the biggest beneficiary of this cooperation as it contributes to strengthening its collapsed economy, and reintroduces it politically again in the region, after decades of being forgetting and failure. Whereas, KSA will not win anything with the West.
Many times, the failure of the KSA foreign policies appears, with all countries, and at all levels, where it supports every policy of every country in resisting the freedom of peoples and stealing their present and future.
