Donald Trump is accustomed to getting his own way. That could change next week when he’s confronted by the mess he’s making in the Middle East. As he begins a three-day trip to Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar, the US president is promising great things. As ever, he’s delusional. The reality is that reckless, incoherent and neglectful US regional policies are failing across the board. A fundamental course correction is urgently required.
Gulf leaders have the leverage to set Trump straight, if they decide to use it. He relies on them to an unprecedented degree – far more than on Europe – as diplomatic interlocutors, security partners and financial backers. His approach to Palestine, which is on the brink of a second Nakba (catastrophe), is a mix of prejudice, cruelty and sheer ignorance. Without Arab help, the US and Israel may remain trapped indefinitely in a destructive policy cul-de-sac.
Trump knows he cannot afford to ignore the views of the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, and his Gulf counterparts on Gaza, Syria and Yemen. They oppose war with Iran, as previously threatened by the US and Israel. Trump needs them as allies in his trade and tariff feud with China. Gulf diplomats hosted the Ukraine-Russia peace talks he personally promoted. He is desperate to keep oil prices low. And he covets multibillion dollar Middle East investment deals and arms sales.
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Why did they do that actually? What were they trying to gain? Provoke the war machine and point it at their rivals?
Jamal Khashoggi
Rest in Power
Israel literarily pays congress men and politician along with running a high profile pedophile ring, shaped use foreign policy for decade, announcing the want 7 countries to be attacked by the US then the US do exactly that… yet the article and you, say it is the Saudi who shapes the US foreign policy?
I mean better than war with Iran.
which is on the brink of a second Nakba (catastrophe)
Uh… The genocide has long exceeded the scale of the Nakba.
he would go to Gaza next week and see for himself the devastation he and his far-right allies have wreaked.
Trump and his far-right allies like checks notes Joe Biden and Antony Blinken. It’s likely Israel’s aid blockade was emboldened by Trump so he’s certainly added fuel to the fire, but can liberals stop selectively forgetting who started the damn fire in the first place?
Israel controls the US
None of these monarch dictatorship-british-leftover-colony asswipes of Saudi, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Oman … none of these can dictate what diaper the US wants to wear let alone dictate its policy. I read the article they claim Trump needs them to control oil prices low and moderate the reigon against Iran…etc. still… lmao wtf… those countries are not allowed to manufacture one fucking gun on their own. Alll their oil, natural gas, currency reserves and investments are tied and sold by the US dollar and don’t change away from it one cent. all their military bases, all their planes, all rockets, all guns, all tanks are fucking made in america, and cannot move unless under the orders of united states. When Trump said “without our protection, they wouldn’t last two weeks” he was not exaggeratting.