President Donald Trump sent a message to the world in Saudi Aarabia: make business deals and the US will not interfere in your business.
During the first overseas visit of his second term, Trump praised the leadership of the country for the Modernization Spush and said that Iran, Lebanon and Syria all had the chance for a better future. The middle -east would “be defined by trade, not by chaos,” he said.
Trump fulfilled the wishes of much of his Maga base and rejected notions of nation structure and pressure on human rights that other US presidents once defended. Van Kroonprins Mohammed Bin Salman said Trump: “I really like him – I like him too much.”
While Trump indicated that worldview began in his first term, the speech on Tuesday imposed his vision in the clearest conditions, but after the campaign promises to put an end to “Forever Wars” such as the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“The so -called Natiebouwers have destroyed many more nations than they built and the interventionists intervened in complex societies that they didn't even understand themselves,” Trump said. “In recent years, far too many American presidents have been hit by the idea that it is our job to look at the souls of foreign leaders and to use American policy to give justice for their sins.”
It matched his broader willingness – out during his first term – to deepen relationships with leaders and political movements that were more wary beyond the American leaders, such as closer cooperation with the Nayib Bukele by El Salvador.
The speech also underlines how Trump turned the script on the traditional American approach. While he dedicates rights in nations such as Saudi Arabia, Iran or Syria, his administration has criticized the traditional ally Germany for its treatment of the extreme right-wing alternative to the German party, and accepted white Afrikaners of another partner, South Africa, about what he is called a “genocide” of farmers there.
“I think what is iconoclastic about Trump is that he does not even pay lip service to these ideals in general,” said Stephen Pomper, main policy at the International Crisis Group and an officer of the National Security Council under former President Barack Obama. “He blown them away.”
Successive administrations have struggled with the role of Saudi Aarabia and other countries in the middle with poor human rights records. Among them was former President Joe Biden, who returned from his characterization of Bin Salman as a “paria” for the murder of the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
Biden later left his opinion in the early administration that the determining battle for the world was one of democracies versus autocracies. Trump's team has taken a step further, reduced foreign aid and proposes a makeover that the office would downgrade that supervises democracy and human rights.
“President Trump is a peacemaker, he is a deal maker and he constantly puts Americans,” said the deputy spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tommy Pigott in response to questions about Trump's approach. “When we approach foreign policy and the standards, we approach that American first perspective that offers opportunities to pursue common interests.”
In Saudi Arabia, Trump praised the leadership of the nation for the modernization of the country. He quoted the Saudi construction of one of the world's highest skyscrapers in Jeddah, and this side by side next to the economic crisis in Iran.
He promised to lift sanctions against Syria now that President Bashar al-Assad has been overthrown and would have been planned to meet the new leader of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, despite the past of Sharaa as an al-Qaeda affiliated commander and the presence of extreme Islamists among his followers. That was preferred by some Democrats.
“We have a real chance that I think in Syria,” Senator Jeanne Shaheen from New Hampshire told reporters in Washington. “It is important for us to offer the opportunity to keep those countries moving in a way that Iran and Russia will keep out.”
It all comes down to a clear message to other countries in the middle – they can have a better future if they collaborate with the US in trade and investments, and the US will not hold any actions from the past against them. The White House said on Tuesday that the $ 600 billion investments from Saudi Arabia had received.
“I am willing to put an end to conflicts from the past and forge new partnerships for a better and more stable world, even if our differences can be in -depth,” Trump said.
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