U.S., Saudis sign nuclear partnership

Rosemary Kelanic, director of the Middle East Program with Defense Priorities, a think-tank that advocates a restrained U.S. foreign policy, said giving the Saudis enrichment capabilities is providing them “huge leverage to extract US security guarantees down the road by threatening to obtain nuclear weapons.”

“It has happened many times before with other U.S. partners—South Korea and West Germany for example. They made nuclear progress, we wanted to prevent them from getting the bomb, and ultimately we offered them greater US military protection so they’d abandon their programs,” she wrote on X.

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