Nevertheless, the Arab Spring revolutions did undermine the pillars of the regional status quo, whose construction and maintenance the Kingdom had underwritten with its petrodollars. The uprisings ousted reliable old allies like Hosni Mubarak, and turned regimes such as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s into implacable enemies.
尽管如此，阿拉伯之春革命仍破坏了沙特王国用石油美元建立并维持的地区现状的支柱。暴乱推翻了穆巴拉克等可靠的旧盟友，也让叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德等政权成为不可调和的敌人。