Andrew Neil: Donald Trump’s “Broms Diplomacy” in the Middle East has achieved more than decades of traditional approaches

Call it diplomacy by Bromance. Donald Trump deployed it in the Middle East this week, making decades of progress over traditional diplomacy in a few days.

But then, the Bay said — the “a remarkable part of the world” he told them Thursday was Trump’s place.

They are run by people in Dosh. Even Trump’s own knees are ready to generously sprinkle the direction of the United States (thanks Qatar, the $400 million giant jet). The people of the wealthy palace were decorated with gold and all kinds of shiny eyelashes, and Trump felt very at home here.

Know how to attract presidents by massaging your own self-finger image as a trader. Of course, people rule by dictatorship, which is an asset for Trump. He has always had a special liking for a “strongman” ruler (desire to be seen as himself) and he never gave human rights thinking.

Trump also knows how to attract them. He told Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and de facto leader Mohammed bin Salman. The Qatar-ruled Emir and his family are “tall, handsome guys”. Syria’s new president Ahmed Al-Sharaa was until recently a jihadist rebel leader with a $10 million American bounty on his head, and he was “attractive” and “strong”.

“You are a grand man,” he said to Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Kus, President of the United Arab Emirates, as he brought it to him in his huge royal palace. And, in one’s own way, this mutually admiring society offers.

Trump left Riyadh for $600 million deals involving artificial intelligence, healthcare, sports and military hardware. There is no doubt that not everyone will see a day coming – the $142 million weapon “deal” is twice the Saudi Arabia’s annual defense budget. But given their size, Trump can afford some slips, especially because he went to Qatar and the UAE, dragging billions in big deals.

At the White House Trump, the United States and the Gulf countries are now acting like old friends. The Saudis play the God-Blessing America for country music star Lee Greenwood, when he stepped onto the Riyadh stage and walked to the YMCA of the Country People – all iconic tunes of Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.

There is substantial substance in all smiles and happy hands – including a complete shift in policy toward the region

The Crown Prince even drove him to supper in a golf cart – if the president is still Hanker after the feast in the desert, he asked his favorite fast food restaurant to be placed on the refrigerated Mobile McDonald’s.

But there is a substantial substance in all aspects of smiles and joy – including the fundamental shift in policy to the region, rather than aiming to make democratic ears please democratic ears. Previous visiting presidents talked about the need to cultivate democracy and human rights. Instead, Trump talked seriously about “safe, orderly” dictators. He attacked former American “interventionists” to “destroy” the region – a clear criticism of neoliberals who once ruled American foreign policy and advocated for invasions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“The glittering miracles of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by so-called national builders,” he said. “The birth of the modern Middle East was brought by the people of the region itself,” which was a sharp remark against George W. Bush’s failed “state-building” presidency that delighted his master.

But the most important development of Trump’s four-day tour was his announcement that he was bringing all sanctions on Syria to make his new administration “a great opportunity.” Trump has seen Hawks and numerous foreign policy masters in Washington in his administration, who urged caution. Of course, it’s a risky pregnancy – no one knows if Syria’s new president gave up on the jihadist way – but it’s a gambling worth mentioning.

In the stroke, it removes Syria from the orbit of Iran, which is the track entered under the previous dictatorship of the previous basher basher al Assad. Saudi Crown Prince and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan made it clear to Trump that a recovery in Syria would not be possible until severe sanctions are lifted.

When Syria’s new president met with Trump in Riyadh, he also invited American companies to start investing in Syria. A huge portrait of Trump has been adorned on a billboard in downtown Damascus. Fun old world.

In Tehran, this did not attract attention. If Trump could so easily and quickly embrace decades of enemies like Syria – building U.S. foreign policy in the process to promote – then perhaps a deal with Washington. The fourth round of the United States-Iran talks were held in Oman last weekend. Progress has been made, but not on a major stumbling block: Iran is ready to commit to “never” developing nuclear weapons, but insists that it must be allowed to continue to enrich uranium, exceeding what is needed inland nuclear power plants. U.S. intelligence personnel believe Iran has enriched enough uranium to approach the level of weapons to make it just months away from the nuclear bomb.

Trump sows all Gulf countries into close, reliable American allies

Iran has nothing to do. Israel neutralizes its two most important proxy terrorist groups, Hamas and Hezbollah. Syria is lost. The Iranian economy is a kind of chaos, hurt by inflation and rampant unemployment due to sanctions.

Despite the regime’s brutal crackdown on any dissent, the public is turbulent consumers. It is said that even the hardline Ayatollah Ali Khamenei can see the advantages of reaching an agreement with the United States. Now, he may be further inclined to do so, and now Trump has sown all Gulf countries into close, reliable American allies.

The U.S. president started his Gulf trip this week, and his belt already has several gaps. After 1,000 targets were hit by the U.S. ruthless bombardment of Yemen, Husseth agreed to stop attacking ships entering the Red Sea. The United States also managed to let Hamas free the last American hostage.

Ironically, Israel is a loser in all of this. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is the first foreign leader to visit the White House after Trump’s re-election. He already believes that Trump is the most pro-Israeli president of all time, sitting in the Oval Office. However, now the United States seems to be doing its own thing in the Middle East.

Trump did not inform him of the war against Hotis before the ceasefire despite a missile strike on Israel. Trump’s people were engaged directly to Hamas, releasing the last American citizen against Israel’s will. Now he has talks with Tehran and Netanyahu will be turned away. Israeli intelligence brought Netanyahu to the outside world. But the Trump administration has not officially updated. Israel is worried that the United States and Iran will reach an agreement without participation. It is clear that Trump did not stop in Israel during his swing throughout the region this week. Indeed, Trump has little to say during his travels.

Netanyahu wants the United States to join the Abraham agreement to Saudi Arabia, the biggest foreign policy achievement of Trump’s first term, with four Arab countries recognizing Israel.

But Trump told Saudi Arabia to join the deal “in your own time”, an awareness that for the Saudis, there is no new relationship with Israel when the war in Gaza is delayed.

The Trump administration increasingly believes that Israel’s determination to extend the Gaza war is a disadvantage of the U.S. interests in the region. This should bring a serious pause to Israel for thinking.

Of course, despite Trump’s breakthrough, most of the basic issues that have brought the region back still remain to be resolved. Some of his achievements are superficial and probably short-lived. There are no too many strategies to formulate.

However, no one has such a strategy, and in the absence, there are many things to make fragmentary progress. Just because the Israel-Palestine issue is tricky, it is not a reason why progress will not be made in other ways.

It’s a simple claim that diplomatic policymakers in Washington, London and Paris have ignored it for too long. But not Trump driven by the deal, which is why he just signaled success in the Gulf blinded them all.