President Donald Trump proclaimed a decisive break with decades of American interventionism that door of his tour of the Middle East, promising a new American foreign policy based on his beloved art of the agreement.
Trump promised a duration of his swing through Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates that would no longer be “conferences on how to live”, saying that the region had achieved a “modern miracle in the Arab way.”
In an extraordinary break with his predecessors, Trump then criticized what he called the “Neoconsians” that supervised the bloody US military interventions in the region and beyond.
“In the end, the so -called nation builders destroyed many more nations than they built,” Trump told an investment forum in Riad, the first stop on his tour of the Gulf.
“Too many US presidents have an aclanzada leg with the notion that it is our job to look at the souls of
Trump did not appoint them, but the objectives were clear.
His Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, tried to link support for the promotion of human rights and the maintenance of the international order. And Republican George W. Bush in the early 2000s released wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
– ‘Consequent change’ –
“Trump’s Riad speech marked a clear and consistent change in the United States policy to the Middle East,” said Sina Toosi, from the International Policy Center.
“By rejecting the legacy of military intervention and the construction of the nation, a movement towards realism and moderation pointed out. This change resonates deeply in a region exhausted by foreign war and interference.”
But for Trump, which also means ignoring democracy and human rights problems and hugging the leaders of oil -rich monarchies with often autocratic trends.
His Saudi host, the heir prince Mohammed Bin Salman, was found by American intelligence that ordered the horrible murder in 2018 or the dissident writer Jamal Khashoggi. But that was not mentioned in Riad.
Instead, Trump preached the same gold -plated transactional policy brand that makes at home.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates showed him the money, signing a lot of huge businesses and investment agreements with the United States his trip.
In return, they obtained the brightness of Trump’s first great foreign trip and praise as examples of what the region could become.
On the contrary, Trump’s visit also shook one of the oldest pillars of American politics in the Middle East: his support for Israel.
The president of the United States not only avoided Israel on the trip, but seemed to put aside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on key issues, including Iran’s nuclear program, Israel’s War in Gaza and Yemen Huthi’s rebels.
This showed growing tensions behind the scene, partly in Iran, with Israel much more acute than Trump in a military option.
– ‘American power’ –
But Trump’s traffic approach for foreign policy could soon have its proven limits.
He has shown the will to find an agreement with Iran on his nuclear program, saying that the case of Tehran “I have never believed to have permanent enemies.”
But at the same time, Trump has threatened military action against Iran if he does not reach an agreement.
Trump also left the medium without progress towards an agreement to end the war in Gaza despite his promises to end the conflict: although he made a rare reference to the fact that people now “looked” in the besieged enclave.
In addition, Trump tried to convince Vladimir Putin in Russia so that the conversations in Istanbul last his trip to discuss the end of the invasion of Ukraine of Moscow, but his efforts did not reach anything.
The doctrine of “peace through force” of Trump also has its contradictions.
In a visit to a huge American air base in Qatar, he said that “my priority is to end conflicts, not start them.”
But then he added immediately: “I will never doubt to cry American power if it is necessary to defend the United States of America or our partners.”
