In Saudi Arabia, US President, Trump begins his first trip abroad. He wants to hold a speech against radical Islam and an arms deal with the Saudis to complete – far away from the problems at home.
Trump wants to speak to the rulers in the Gulf, not to their peoples
His advisers talk of a historic journey. As the first US President since Jimmy Carter, Donald Trump will not be going to Canada or Mexico, but begins his first Overseas trip in Saudi Arabia – far away from the increasingly urgent problems at home.
“It is remarkable”, says Elliott Abrams from the influence of the Council on Foreign Relations-rich route “” travel to. “In the election campaign, Donald Trump has said that the US will pull out of all conflicts in the Middle East. And now his first trip abroad takes him, of all people in the Middle East.”
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Speech against radical Islam
The President goes in there, “to unite the Muslim world against common enemies,” in the White house. He will come with king Salman ibn Abd al-Aziz, as well as with other members of the Royal family together, and at a Meeting of the Gulf States to participate. Also planned is a keynote speech against radical Islam in front of heads of state from around 50 Arab and Muslim countries. You have been invited to Riyadh to meet with the American President.
Donald Trump himself is – as always – extremely self-aware. “In Saudi Arabia I’m going to talk with Muslim leaders and urge them to fight hatred and extremism and pave the way for a peaceful future for their Religion,” announced the President. In Riyadh you would be excited already to hear his message, he added.
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Enthusiastic about trump’s presidency
In fact, the rulers were in the Gulf, almost enthusiastic, whether of the presidency Trumps – despite his Islamophobic Comments in the election campaign, and despite his Attempts to issue entry bans for a period of seven predominantly Muslim countries.
“With Trump, we will see the return to a more traditional US foreign policy in the Middle East – in contrast to Obama’s policy,” said Nile Gardiner of the conservative Heritage Foundation, and the American government in important foreign – advises how internal political issues.
U-turn by the middle East policy of Obama’s
Obama have neglected important US allies in the Region, writes Gardiner, and with his Iran policy, especially relations with the Saudis sustained damage. Trumps predecessor had criticized the Kingdom for its promotion of fundamentalist Islam and because of numerous human rights violations repeatedly.
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“The goal of the trip is to renew the partnership between the United States and Saudi Arabia to reassure the Saudis that the US are committed to Iran’s destabilizing influence in the Region to fight aggressively,” says Gardiner. The Saudis were eager to collaborate with the Americans. You would need the United States as a security guarantor in the Region, stronger than the United States, in the meantime, Saudi Arabia.
In the interest of the United States?
“Trump’s relations with Saudi Arabia will be more relaxed than under Obama. But that’s not necessarily good for U.S. foreign policy,” criticized, however, Emma Ashford from the libertarian Cato Institute. The Obama government felt it was important for women – and human rights and civil society. Trump make it clear that this will have for him is not a priority.
His speech in Riyadh, the US President-is not to teach differently than its predecessor in 2009 in Cairo – the people of the Arab world, but exclusively to their leader. If anything, contentious issues such as human may be addressed violations of the law behind closed doors, that seems to be the principle of the foreign policy to be Trumps.
“America first” versus America’s leadership role?
A message for his followers, the US President, which likes to present itself as the Deal-maker in the office, also in the Luggage. It is expected that during his visit in Riyadh, armor shops to the value of 100 billion dollars with Saudi Arabia to be completed. The travel show, that Trumps “America’s policy to be”compatible with the American Leadership in the world, summed it up one of his advisors.
“It is all about the mood,” says Nile Gardiner of the Heritage Foundation. And Elliott Abrams from the “Council on Foreign Relations” is to consider how beneficial a trip to the friendly Saudi-must be Arabia for Donald Trump. In Washington, everything revolves around the Russia investigation, the FBI and the Trump-Tweets. “In Saudi Arabia, Trump is seen to continue as the U.S. President, the meet and with the you shoot.”