Joe Biden makes his first trip to the Middle East as president this week as the crisis in global oil markets pushes him to reset relations with Saudi Arabia, a country he once threatened to make a pariah state.
Relations between the US and Saudi Arabia, allies traditionally tightly bound by oil and security concerns, reached a historic low in the wake of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 and the war in Yemen.
The fallout from the war in Ukraine, which has sent global oil prices higher, has created an opening to put relations between Washington and the world’s biggest crude producer back on track, and deliver dividends for both sides, officials and analysts in the US and the Gulf say.
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