Exactly.
Journalism today is making shit up and finding two imaginary sources to confirm it.
The Saudis are aligned with Russia. Period. Oil policy is not going to be defined to be anything other than support of BRICS and as elevated a price as is possible. Mohammed Bin Salman runs the place and has rejected the US as not being a partner that will advance Saudi Arabia policies.
The biggest disinformation about the posted report is the title. It’s as if the Saudis were either terrorists or would let terrorists have nukes the Saudis might later develop after they get nuclear technology from the U.S. Yet where is the support for that characteization?
While this kind of deal - the Saudis getting U.S. help with nuclear technology - has appealed to the Biden admin, it is not a wholley new idea from the American side in general. It was constantly a wait and see issue, depending on the ability to restrain the nuclear ambitions of the Mullahs in Tehran. The diplomatic ability for that seems at this time to have run its couse without success and is presented with current thinking the Mullahs are closer than ever with their nuclear ambitions and may be about the announce it is a fait a compli - they have working nuke arms. In spite of the Biden admini’s childish hopes to persuade the Mullahs in Tehran to drop their nuclear ambitions, my view is their own recognition of the failure of that, more than anything else, is what has led to the increased pursuit of a nuclear technology deal with the Saudis.