The president of the United States, Donald Trump, closes on Thursday a tour of the Middle East in the United Arab Emirates while focusing directly on searching for agreements after billions of dollars of promises from Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The first important trip of his second term had been scheduled to finish Thorsday, but Trump, always ready with surprises, did not rule out continue to Türkiye if the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, appears to speak with Ukraine.
Trump will fly to the capital Emiratí Abu Dhabi after a stop in Qatar, where the president praised what he said was a record agreement of $ 200 billion for Boeing aircraft.
The trip in Saudi Arabia began, which promised its own $ 600 billion in investments, including one of the largest purchases of US weapons.
The generosity of Gulf leaders has also caused controversy, with Qatar offering Trump a luxury plane before his visit for presidential and then personal use, in which Trump’s Democratic rivals charged corruption.
Trump, who also chooses Saudi Arabia for the opening visit of his first mandate, did not make fun of Bone to collect the Gulf money and praised the effect on the creation of jobs at home.
In a speech in Riyad, Trump attacked not only the Democrats but also the traditional wing of his own Republican party, who had defended US military intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Complementing the horizon of the capital of the Saudi desert, Trump said: “The brilliant wonders of Riad and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so -called” nation builders “,” Neocons “or” Non -profit organizations “, such as Whodad.”
“On the other hand, the birth of a modern Middle East has been caused by the people of the region itself,” he said.
“In the end, the so -called” nations builders “destroyed many more nations than they build.”
– silence about rights –
Trump moved away from any indication of criticism of the Gulf monarchies about human rights.
The predecessor of Trump, Joe Biden, had initially promised to reject the heir prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Bin Salman, for the results of the intelligence of the United States that he ordered the horrible murder in 2018 or Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi writer Disisidi who is a writer who liter.
Instead, Trump praised the heir prince, who is the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabias, as a visionary due to the rapid economic investments of the kingdom.
Trump also agreed to a key application of the heir prince in announcing a lifting of sanctions to Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December.
Hi, with Riad with Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former Islamist guerrillas once on the list of United States searches who dressed in a suit and was congratulated by Trump as a “young and attractive type.”
Trump joined the meeting by Prince Mohammed and, Virtualy, by the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the key defender of the former Syrian rebels.
Trump said Wednesday that he was willing to travel to Türkiye if Putin accepts a sacrifice of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zensky to meet at the end of the war.
Russia has not given any indication that Putin will attend. Trump said the Secretary of State Marco Rubio would, however, travel to Istanbul for possible conversations.
