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Eight years ago, during the first few days of the President Donald Trump The first term, I joined his other older counselors in a situation in a white house situation to discuss our approach to Saudi Arabia, who was then in the midst of an internal struggle for power. Should we cooperate with the older generation of Saudi leaders, with whom they have now operated for decades? Or we would risk a younger generation, which was untested but dedicated to mass social and economic changes.
Jared Kushner presented the case with new leaders, especially Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS). Kushner claimed that he would take Saudi Arabia in a different direction-far from a religious and socially conservative, isolated, extremist tolerant older generations of his grandparents to build a modern, tolerant and open society, with rights for women.
They wanted to diversify the Saudi economy outside their relying on oil and to create a modern nation focused on technology, investment and infrastructure. They would contradict Islamic extremism and work with us to destroy the terrorist movements. Were open to the idea of peace with Israel as the foundation of wild peace in Middle East.
The choice was Trump’s and one of his first major foreign policy decisions. He would continue his firm support for Israel, but he bet on the younger generation of Sunni Arabian leaders. Withdrawn from the smaller President Barack Obama nuclear weapons deals with Iran, Believing that the path to the peace of the Middle East went through Riyadh and Israel, not Tehran.
US President Donald J. Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attended a signature ceremony at the Saudi Royal Court on May 13, 2025 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Getty Images)
This week’s trip to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Uae were Trump’s winning circle. His big bet in 2017 paid off. He could say with great pride: “Before our eyes, a new generation of leaders goes beyond ancient conflicts and tired divisions of the past and forgery of the future in which the Middle East defined trade, not chaos; where it exports technology, not terrorism; and where people of different nations cannot build.”
Gulf Arabic nations, led by Saudi Arabia, have achieved extraordinary things in the last eight years, despite the cold shoulders that have given them during the biden administration. They were key to destroying ISIS other Islamist extremist movements. Played a major role behind the scene in Abraham contracts Between Israel and Uae, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco. Although he is not yet a formal signatory to Abraham’s agreements, Saudi Arabia is on the right track.
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The Saudis, along with other Arab leaders of the Gulf, have now called Trump to open dialogue with New leaders of Syria. During this trip, he grabbed another bet and rejected the crippled sanctions on Syria to give them a “size for size”. If Trump is right, Syria will no longer be a whip of the region for decades; Using chemical weapons on their own people, the host of extremist groups bent on spreading death and destruction and welcome in Russian influence.
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Perhaps most importantly, Trump has put a stake in the heart of American interventionist foreign policy that both political parties have been implemented in the last 20 years. We will no longer to fight forever wars in the Middle East in a futile attempt to force them to the American mold. Nations will no longer maintain “lectures on how to live or how to manage our own jobs.”
As Trump said in his first address to the General Assembly of the United Nations in 2017, “we do not expect different countries to share the same cultures, traditions or even systems of government. But we expect that all nations will support these two fundamental duties: respect the interests of their own people and the rights of any other sovereign people…
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“In America, we do not want to impose our lifestyle to anyone, but allow it to shine as an example to all who look at.”
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Our politics is peace with power – which covers all forms of our strength, not just our military power.
Which is a better way to respect the spirit of our own establishment 250 years ago than to encourage other “sovereign nations let their people take ownership of the future and control their own destiny.”
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