Saudi Arabia missing in Afghanistan?

[Chakar The Great]

I am just curious to know why Saudi Arabia is missing from the scene since Taliban took over?

Qatar who doest have good relations with Saudis , have been on the fore front for ages ( IEA has Doha office for almost 3 years now). Turkey another country with not so good relations with Saudis also taking part in supporting IEA future government, with Kabul airport technical support etc.


Why is Saudi Arabia completely quite on what has just happened in Afghanistan, also doesn't seem interested in future role. Saudi Arabia and OIC once used to take lead in such crisis is no where to be seen. Not good for their reputation, I must say.

 

[Clutch]

I am just curious to know why Saudi Arabia is missing from the scene since Taliban took over?

Qatar who doest have good relations with Saudis , have been on the fore front for ages ( IEA has Doha office for almost 3 years now). Turkey another country with not so good relations with Saudis also taking part in supporting IEA future government, with Kabul airport technical support etc.


Why is Saudi Arabia completely quite on what has just happened in Afghanistan, also doesn't seem interested in future role. Saudi Arabia and OIC once used to take lead in such crisis is no where to be seen. Not good for their reputation, I must say.

Saudis are now in the Zionist camp. They do not have an Afghan strategy or a horse in the game.

This is good .. because in the past the Saudi influence put the Taliban under the Wahaabi Al Qaeeda camp through their financial and ideological Takfiri influence.

The Saudis are now in the UAE/Bahrain/Egypt camp of appeasement of the Zionist-West for their Worldly Pleasures...

The next chapter for Saudi Arabia is the death of King Salman and the civil war between MBS vs. MBN
Ie. Muhammad Bin Salman (MBS) Vs. Mohammed bin Nayef (MBN)

The Taliban will be riding eastward with someone special with them around that time....

 

[Philip the Arab]

The Taliban and Afghanistan serve no purpose really.

Waste of money to support or interact with them at all.

 

[Clutch]

The Taliban and Afghanistan serve no purpose really.

Waste of money to support or interact with them at all.

For Pakistan it's a very important development. Financial, militarily, security, and stability wise speaking.

 

[Philip the Arab]

For Pakistan

Not Saudi Arabia.

 

[Chakar The Great]

The Taliban and Afghanistan serve no purpose really.

Waste of money to support or interact with them at all.

Afghanistan is the most part of China's BRI. It also sits on over 3 Trillion USD Lithium and other mineral resources.

 

[Philip the Arab]

Afghanistan is the most part of China's BRI. It also sits on over 3 Trillion USD Lithium and other mineral resources.

Saudi doesnt seem like they care about that really in my opinion, they should focus on their own mineral mining.

 

[Dual Wielder]

The Taliban and Afghanistan serve no purpose really.

Waste of money to support or interact with them at all.

Many People say the same thing about ghettos, yet we at still interact with You.

 

[Clutch]

Not Saudi Arabia.

Sure. As in my post above explains why.... Saudi has no horse in the game. Its irrelevant. Ideologically useless. Perhaps it is still financially beneficial.

But now we have the Chinese who are willing to be the financial lifeline for Afghanistan... And Pakistan through trade and investment.

Saudis have nothing to offer.... Useless state.

 

[Philip the Arab]

Sure. As in my post above explains why.... Saudi has no horse in the game. Its irrelevant. Ideologically useless. Perhaps it is still financially beneficial.

But now we have the Chinese who are willing to be the financial lifeline for Afghanistan... And Pakistan through trade and investment.

Saudis have nothing to offer.... Useless state.

Good, let the Chinese go crazy over there and make money.

 

[Valar.]

Saudis have nothing to offer.... Useless state.

Saudis can provide 2 things to Afghanistan, 1) Oil 2) Employment to Afghans.

They will be hesitant to provide oil to them because of financial issues of Afghanistan because last thing they want right now during pandemic is to provide cheaper or free oil to somebody. Iran might help here though.

As for employments to Afghans, well, they will be very very cautious about it for 2 reasons; 1) Influx of Afghans to Saudi and some might be extremists 2) Many of them would refuse to go back.

And ofcourse then there is humanatarian help too which Afghans would be expecting from Saudis as they are richer, custodian of holy sites, spiritual leader of Ummah and all that. But Saudis will chicken out from here. Either no help would be provided and very little token amount.

All in all, during this pandemic crisis with Saudis aligning their policies further to 'western camp', they have either no interest or very little interest in this region. They will wait it out, see the situation where it is headed after few months and probably then make a little effortless move just for the heck of it.

 

[PakFactor]

The further the Saudi's are away from Afghanistan the better.

 

[Clutch]

Saudis can provide 2 things to Afghanistan, 1) Oil 2) Employment to Afghans.

So can Iran and China.

Nothing else.

Good, let the Chinese go crazy over there and make money.

Silk Road 2.0. the richest historic trade route in history.

 

[Philip the Arab]

Silk Road 2.0. the richest historic trade route in history

Masallah

 

[IbnAbdullah]

Salaam

It may have something to do with the newer leadership moving away from the leadership role the Saudis had assumed i.e leaders of the sunni world.

It appears, unfortunately, that once they got challenged in it by the Turks and such, they just retreated into their own space. I don't know whether it's a good move or not for them, but they certainly have lost space diplomatically.

The UAE's acceptance of Israel hasn't helped either because it is viewed as having at least a tacit approval from the Saudis.