{"id":578751,"date":"2025-11-18T18:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/578751\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T18:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:01:15","slug":"saudis-crown-prince-says-they-will-invest-1tn-in-us-during-oval-office-meeting-with-trump-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/578751\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi’s crown prince says they will invest $1tn in US during Oval Office meeting with Trump – live"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is the current military relationship between Saudi Arabia and the US?published at 17:25 GMT<\/p>\n

17:25 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Tom Bateman<\/strong>
US State Department correspondent<\/p>\n

We’re just waiting on the two leaders to emerge for bilateral talks in the Oval Office. One thing likely to be on the agenda is bin Salman’s push for a defence agreement with the US<\/a>. Tom Bateman looks at the current security relationship between the two countries.<\/p>\n

The US has troops stationed at military bases across Saudi Arabia, including at the Prince Sultan Air Base south of Riyadh which contains US Patriot missile batteries. <\/p>\n

Combined with its other bases in Gulf states, these make up Washington\u2019s outsized role in the region\u2019s security balance. <\/p>\n

The US military presence in the kingdom has often been controversial. <\/p>\n

But the bases, sitting across the Gulf from Iran, are intended to create deterrence against America\u2019s adversaries; while providing protection to its allies – Israel and the Gulf Arab states. <\/p>\n

That strategic relationship has, however, been under pressure, with both Iran and Israel having launched strikes on Qatar this year. <\/p>\n

The Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia, want Washington to provide them with a more formal security pledge. <\/p>\n

Qatar got that from Trump earlier this year. Now Mohammed bin Salman wants the same; plus his long-held desire for American F-35 fighter jets and progress on US backing for a Saudi civilian nuclear power programme. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is the current military relationship between Saudi Arabia and the US?published at 17:25 GMT 17:25 GMT Tom…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-578751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115572014753548415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}