
US President Donald Trump walks with United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan during their meeting, at Qasr Al Watan, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, May 15, 2025. — Reuters
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WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East has made it clear that the United States is taking a new view – instead of its famous art -based foreign policy.
He went away from military dialogue and the construction of the nation, and instead focused on trade, money and strong alliances.
President Donald Trump announced decades of decades with US intervention during his visit to the Middle East, and promised a new US foreign policy based on the famous art of the deal.
During his visits to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, Trump expressed his commitment that there would be no more “lectures” about “ways to live”, praising the region for “modern miracle Arab route”.
When his predecessors were dramatically discharged, Trump criticized him, which he called the “Nine Kuns” for the Middle East and beyond bloody US military intervention.
“Finally, the so -called nation builders destroyed more nations than their construction,” Trump told an Investment Forum in Riyadh, his first stop in the Gulf.
“Many US presidents have been put to the notion that our job is to look at the souls of foreign leaders and to use US policy to provide justice for their sins.”
Although he did not name them, his goals were clear.
His Democratic predecessor Joe Biden tried to promote US support and to link international discipline. Meanwhile, Republican George W. Bush launched wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the early 2000s.
‘The resulting shift’
“Trump’s Riyadh speech identified a clear and fruitful change in US policy towards the Middle East,” said Sena Tussey, a Center for International Policy.
“By rejecting military intervention and the inheritance of the nation’s construction, they indicated a move towards realism and patience. This change resonates in the region that ends with war and foreign intervention.”
However, Trump’s point of view also means ignoring democracy and human rights concerns, while oil -rich leaders are embracing sovereign trends.
Its Saudi host, Wali Ahad Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was found by the American Intelligence that he ordered the horrific murder of conflicting writer Jamal Khashogi in 2018. Yet there was no mention of this in Riyadh.
Instead, Trump promoted the politics of the same transaction he advocates at home.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates signed a series of lucrative businesses and investment deals with the United States during their journey, which led to Trump’s definition of what could be the region.
‘US Power’
Nevertheless, the approach to the agreement for Trump’s foreign policy may soon face its limits.
He has expressed his willingness to make an agreement with Iran about its nuclear program – stating, “I have never believed to be a permanent enemy.”
At the same time, he has threatened military action against Tehran if there is no agreement.
Despite promises to resolve the conflict, Trump left the Middle East without any progress towards the end of the war in Gaza. However, he made an extraordinary citation of the fact that people were now “dying of hunger” in the enclave enclave.
In addition, Trump tried to discuss Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Istanbul to discuss the end of Moscow’s Ukraine attack, but his efforts failed.
It also contradicts Trump’s “peace through peace”.
During a visit to a major US airport in Qatar, he said, “My priority is to eliminate conflicts, not to start them.”
Yet he immediately followed him, saying, “If it is necessary to defend the United States or our partners, I will never hesitate to run American power.”