Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden made a controversial trip to Saudi Arabia in July in part to convince the kingdom to loosen the production taps, meeting Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman despite his promise to make Riyadh a 'pariah' following the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

It seems that Putin has a new friend,...and the U.S.A. is going to pay a lot of money for the Putin gang's foreign policy shenanigans.