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”.
向另一个国家提供爱国者反导弹系统,不可能有什么谨慎和低调的方式,但乔•拜登(Joe Biden)如果不尝试一下,那他就不是拜登了。美国总统让其领导的行政当局中的无名官员确认沙特阿拉伯已收到这些外形怪异的车载拦截系统。你可以理解这种羞怯。2019年,他曾承诺让残杀一名记者的沙特王国成为国际社会的“弃儿”。就在本月,他还将现代世界框定为“民主与专制之间的战斗”。