Incredible business deals and dramatic geopolitical fluctuations marked the four-day Middle Eastern Tour last week by U.S. President Donald Trump. Flying from Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) to Doha (Qatar) and Dubai (UAE), he shook hands with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
This is President Trump’s first foreign visit abroad (unless a brief visit to Rome attending the pope’s funeral), and the main purpose seems to be to make billions of dollars in funding. The Middle East is obviously where the money lies. Europe is almost shaky and the government is working towards deficit financing. Japan has extended its presence and China is alert and withdrawing its financial interests in the United States, and that most other countries cannot make large-scale investments in the United States.
President Trump triumphantly announced a slew of deals with the three Arab leaders, including a $1.2 trillion economic exchange agreement with Qatar, other economic deals totaling more than $243.5 billion with Qatar (including the sale of Boeing aircraft and GE Aerospace engines to Qatar Airways), a $14.5 billion deal with the UAE to sell 28 American-made Boeing 787 and 777X aircraft, a $600 billion Saudi Arabia’s commitment to invest in the United States, and the US’s commitment to sell $142 billion to the Kingdom. It is worth noting that the UAE will build one of the world’s largest AI hubs through US technology and management.
These countries also plan to invest billions of dollars in U.S. manufacturing. Even though it’s all big news, the real global eyebrow is accompanied by geopolitical action. The most unexpected thing is Trump’s indifferent shoulder to Israel during his Middle East tour. This highlights how business and non-regional geopolitics become the “new normal” in the United States. President Trump’s clear message is that Israel is much less important than lucrative business deals with wealthy Arab countries, even if it means abandoning decades of definite U.S. geopolitical status.
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President Trump also asked the Israeli leadership to combine with current Syrian President Mr. Al-Sharaa, who called him “a young, attractive man with a strong past”. For him
Mr. Trump’s announcement that it will immediately work for all sanctions on Syria, surpriseing his administration.
Reconciliation with the new Syrian leader appears to be aimed at embracing the idea of Sunni Arab Gulf rule, while the price of Iran-backed Shia branches. Therefore, the Alavians who once almost ruled Syria would be freely hunted and killed, Hezbollah was approved, Husset was ignored, while Sunni agents in Qatar and other Arab countries were free to assert their will to the people of the Middle East.
At the same time, Iran, perhaps to some extent, has been marginalized.
But how long? President Trump doesn’t seem to care, as long as oil and gas funds provide his dream of a complete revival of strategic manufacturing within the United States.
As for his critics of changing positions against Israel, President Trump was ruthless, believing that his actions would actually help the Jewish state: “It is good for Israel, and it has the same relationship with these countries as these countries; the Middle East, essentially everyone.”
That might be a question of conjecture. Because, as former U.S. intelligence officer Jonathan Panikoff, currently serving at the Atlantic Council, noted: “Trump is clear about his determination to move forward with a trading, trade and investment-centric agenda…if the United States and Israel have been in good shape with Trump’s priorities throughout history, he will be in good shape with their priorities, and he will be in good shape with them.
Mr. Trump’s Middle East tour hosts classes for world leaders to watch his maverick announcements and policy shifts. What appears on this trip is that he is not a lunatic, but as some say, a shrewd businessman who has profits outweighed the principles and truly believes that his mission is to make America great again. His challenges include a strategic manufacturing revival in the United States, cutting the booming trade deficit, gradually weakening the out-of-control budget deficit, reducing the value of the dollar to enable export competition and ensure substantial foreign investment.
He also believes that Washington is trying to play geopolitical games in every corner of the world, or in geopolitical games, without a percentage of the percentage. He intends to withdraw the U.S. expansion and believes that it is unprofitable and plays a role in the global scope.
To achieve his goals, President Trump has done his best to abandon his long-standing positions, agreements and even friends. In fact, he took the concept of a country without permanent friends (only permanent interests) to a whole new level.
India, for example, will have to look closely at the “historic” tariff agreements recently formulated by the Trump administration with China. According to a White House fact sheet, Mr. Trump “has reached an agreement with China to reduce Chinese tariffs and eliminate retaliation, retain U.S. benchmark tariffs on China and provides a way for future discussions to open market access to the U.S. export market.”
The fact sheet states that the U.S. trade deficit with China is the largest in 2024, with any trading partners, which is the largest trade table, and the latest agreement “dedicated to addressing these imbalances to bring real, lasting benefits to American workers, celebrities and businesses.”
The next 90 days will prove crucial as negotiators on both sides eliminate details. If a viable deal comes up, Trump’s view on China will change dramatically, just like in the Middle East. India is likely to be hit. Trump’s public dissatisfaction with Apple’s expansion of production in India may be a hint of trouble.
Visits to the Middle East show that with President Trump there is any possibility that every foreign leader is a good person, but only he is consistent with the interests of the United States.
