Saudi Arabia no longer trusts the US to provide protection, said Saudi analyst Mubarak Al-Etti in an interview on Russia Today TV last week. "It seems that Trump refuses to return to war and overthrow the Ayatollah's regime. This will cost him dearly,” said Al-Etti, who claimed that the US president has shown that he is a paper tiger. Al-Etti explained that the US's first real sign of its failure in international affairs was Biden's “humiliating exit” from Afghanistan in 2021. “The US is still