On Valentine’s Day in 1945, US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt met Saudi King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud on the American cruiser USS Quincy. It was the beginning of one of the most important geopolitical alliances of the past 70 years, in which US security in the Middle East was bartered for oil pegged in dollars.
1945年2月14日,美國總統(tǒng)富蘭克林?德拉諾?羅斯福(Franklin Delano Roosevelt)在美國巡洋艦“昆西號”(USS Quincy)上會晤沙特國王阿卜杜勒?阿齊茲?伊本?沙特(Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud),開啟過去70年最重要的地緣政治聯(lián)盟之一。他們達(dá)成的這筆“大交易”意味著美國保障中東的安全,以換取與美元掛鉤的石油。
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