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President Donald Trump went huge but again Tuesday in Saudi Arabia, rattling off a number of promising developments and lofty plans for a peaceable, affluent Middle East.
Wish him luck fulfilling that dream.
One enormous win is solidifying ties with Saudi Arabia itself, a very important ally in the area, after President Joe Biden practically severed them.
De facto Saudi ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman heartily welcomed Trump, and the two then inked a dozen-plus offers to spice up cooperation; the Saudis have additionally agreed to invest $600 billion in America (although Trump chided them to up it to $1 trillion).
The prez then laid out a roadmap to a “bright future” for the Middle East — one of “peace and prosperity” and “commerce, not chaos.”
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“After so many decades of conflict, finally, it is within our grasp to reach the future that generations before us could only dream about,” he cheered.
And Trump proved it no less than theoretically attainable in his first time period with the Abraham Accords, surprising peace agreements between Israel and a number of other Arab nations.
The prez on Tuesday referred to as on the Saudis to hitch these accords: “You’ll be honoring me,” he mentioned, whilst he admitted, “you’ll do it in your own time.”
A Riyadh-Jerusalem peace deal might go a long method towards ending the long Israeli-Palestinian battle as properly: If the Arab world is shifting on, the dream of destroying Israel is hopeless.
Trump rightly pinned the blame for a lot of the area’s turmoil on Iran however mentioned he’s “willing to end past conflicts and forge new partnerships” with it “for a better and more stable world.”
If Tehran rejects that olive department, Washington “will have no choice but to inflict massive maximum pressure” on Tehran and “drive Iranian oil exports to zero.”
Either method, Trump vowed, “Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.” Hear, hear — even when making good on that vow requires navy motion, as all involved know it’d.
The prez additionally means to normalize relations with Syria’s new regime; he’s dropping sanctions on the nation “to give them a chance at greatness” and can meet Wednesday with Syrian interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa regardless that he’s a former al Qaeda chief.
It all provides up to a superb and grandiose vision — a “Golden Age of the Middle East,” Trump referred to as it.
Such optimism is one thing the area desperately must not solely hear, however embrace.
Of course, vision and actuality are two various things, particularly in the Middle East; right here’s hoping the prez and the area’s key gamers can flip Trump’s vision into a new actuality.
