There is no discreet and low-key way of sending the Patriot antimissile system to another country, but Joe Biden is nothing if not a trier. The US president has left it to unnamed officials in his administration to confirm that Saudi Arabia has taken receipt of these monstrous, truck-mounted interceptors. You can quite understand the sheepishness. In 2019, he promised to make the journalist-killing kingdom a “pariah”. Just this month, he framed the modern world as a “battle between democracies and autocracies”.
向另一個國家提供愛國者反導彈系統,不可能有什麼謹慎和低調的方式,但喬•拜登(Joe Biden)如果不嘗試一下,那他就不是拜登了。美國總統讓其領導的行政當局中的無名官員確認沙烏地阿拉伯已收到這些外形怪異的車載攔截系統。你可以理解這種羞怯。2019年,他曾承諾讓殘殺一名記者的沙烏地王國成爲國際社會的「棄兒」。就在本月,他還將現代世界框定爲「民主與專制之間的戰鬥」。