Saudi Arabia and the OPEC announced they would cut their oil production in order to raise prices.
Tunisia's role as the middleman in the Russian naphtha trade opens the door for Western investment.
A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.
When Saudi actions deliberately inflate US gasoline prices at election time, such actions are perceived as hostile political interference and can undermine and damage bilateral relations.
Neither Saudi Arabia nor Russia can claim that the decisions taken at the OPEC+ meeting on October 5 were purely economic.
The Chinese are more than happy to pick up the pieces of the damaged US-Saudi relationship, trying to undermine American interests. The Chinese are already the number one Saudi trade partner.
Saudi Arabia's recent moves to provide aid to Ukraine do not compensate for the "wrong" decision by OPEC+ to cut oil production, says US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Such policies are traveling a dangerous path.
A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.
US President Joe Biden has vowed that "there will be consequences" for American-Saudi relations after the OPEC+ oil cartel announced last week that it would cut petroleum output.
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