White House national security advisor Jake Sullivan arrived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Thursday for talks with crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, the man who funneled $3 billion to Trump administration officials in the past 30 months, in an effort to improve relations with the Middle Eastern leader, NBC News reports.
Sullivan plans to meet with MbS, the Saudi defense and energy ministers, as well as the head of the Saudi wealth fund, which uses the kingdom’s cumulative wealth to influence other nations’ policies around the world. The US hopes to push Saudi Arabia to normalize relations with Israel, pull back from its involvement in the ongoing war with Yemen, and to to “advance a common vision for a more peaceful, secure, prosperous, and stable Middle East.”