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<\/p>\nReluctant to accept the invitation for BRICS membership, as well as the invitation to join the Abraham Accords, Saudi Arabia is now facing an offensive by the Yemeni Houthis, still without directly engaged external allies on the battlefield from the capital to Bab el Mandeb…<\/p>\n
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Novak Djokovic, the world’s best tennis player of all time, Meg O’Neill, the CEO of Shell, and Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, will not meet in Riyadh (on the photo) these days. The capital of Saudi Arabia seems to be becoming a “dangerous” place, the target of almost day and night rocket attacks by the Yemeni Houthis, without the prospect of an end to a ongoing barrage of actions by the “Ansar Allah” rebel movement. (https:\/\/www.telegraf.rs\/english\/4415121-novak-djokovic-will-not-travel-to-riyadh-six-kings-tournament-postponed<\/a>); https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/bp-withdraws-riyadh-energy-conference-after-airport-attack-2026-10-11\/<\/a>); https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-911792<\/a>).<\/p>\n Namely, the prestigious exhibition tournament “Six Kings” was postponed. Just like the Gulf Countries-EU summit, while the World Petroleum Congress was held without the presence of representatives of the mega-world oil companies, although the host, Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, assured the invited and those gathered that “the word ‘fear’ does not exist in the Saudi vocabulary” (https:\/\/www.upstreamonline.com\/energy-security\/-fear-does-not-exist-in-the-saudi-dictionary-says-saudi-energy-minister\/2-1-2057319<\/a>).<\/p>\n If not fear, then “anxiety” is certainly present among many travellers – those intending to visit Riyadh these days, or to return to work at the company’s headquarters for the Middle East (https:\/\/vision2030.ai\/analysis\/riyadh-mandate\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n The global uneasiness regarding eventual rip to Riyadh is especially spreading, after the announcement by Yahya Sari, the military spokesman of the Yemeni rebel movement “Ansar Allah”, that for the Houthis Saudi Arabia is still their new “battlefield”… (https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c5m2dn7zz4nyo<\/a>).<\/p>\n As things stand now, foreigners are beginning to bypass the desert capital of the leading Sunni monarchy, a key member of OPEC, the richest country on the Arabian Peninsula, until recently the world’s third largest customer of foreign weapons (in the period 2020-2025, 77 percent of which is from the USA). https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/where-the-worlds-biggest-arms-exporters-send-their-weapons\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n Whether the Houthis will succeed in cutting off Saudi Arabia from the world is uncertain.<\/p>\n What is certain is that the official Riyadh, at this moment, is in the windstorm of war.<\/p>\n Namely, reluctant to accept Moscow’s invitation for BRICS membership, as well as Washington’s subsequent invitation to join the Abraham Accords, Saudi Arabia is now facing an offensive by the Yemeni Houthis, still without directly engaged external allies, on the battlefield from Riyadh to Bab el Mandeb…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reluctant to accept the invitation for BRICS membership, as well as the invitation to join the Abraham Accords, Saudi Arabia is now facing an offensive by the Yemeni Houthis, still without directly engaged external allies on the battlefield from the capital to Bab el Mandeb… Novak Djokovic, the world’s best tennis player of all time, […]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arabia-new-global-diplomacy-hub-in-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vujic-geopolitika.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vujic-geopolitika.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vujic-geopolitika.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vujic-geopolitika.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vujic-geopolitika.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vujic-geopolitika.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205,"href":"https:\/\/www.vujic-geopolitika.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions\/2205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vujic-geopolitika.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vujic-geopolitika.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vujic-geopolitika.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vujic-geopolitika.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}