That sure is a lot of bashing for a good outcome. Interesting.
It's not bashing. It's well deserved criticism.
do you think Saudis would refuse to pick up Donald Trump's phone call and continually publicly give him two middle fingers in the ways in which they are doing to Biden? Yeah, don't think so.
It appears that we have gotten fortunate that the rest of the "free world" and major purchasers of Russian oil exports- EU, South Korea, Japan (these 3 account for 50%+ of Russian oil exports)- didn't follow US lead in imposing strict bans. US purchases just over 1% of Russian oil exports and UK another 1% - but UK are doing a phase out- they are still buying until the end of December.
Saudis could've cooled price immediately by announcing they are ramping production to levels never seen before. Biden was trying to get them to do this and announce it. They publicly told the entire world "yeah, we just told Biden to f**k off and refused his phone call, and now we're telling him to
really f**k off by inviting Xi on an official state visit to the kingdom and are having high-level discussions with Xi to price our oil in yuan."
Say what you want about Trump, that
never happens with him in that chair. Period.