Trump’s doctrine in foreign policy? It has made it clear more than ever

In a noticeable speech, on an unforgettable journey, we have seen the clearest outlines of what one can call Trump’s doctrine in foreign policy.

The current American president does not tend to indulge in the great theoretical conversation, but he was actually put in Saudi Arabia.

It may be summarized as follows: less moral, more money.

In other words, the pursuit of prosperity has precedence over the noble discourse on democracy. This, in his saying, is a recipe for peace and stability.

On Tuesday in Riyadh, the speech that the recent Republican President, George W. Bush was on the first external trip from a presidential period.

Barack Obama’s speech delivered at the beginning Presidential speech To the Arab world, when he spoke extensively about democracy for university students in Cairo.

Trump spoke to a crowd of work. On the contrary, it wanders in western western people traveling all over the world trying to spread democracy.

He had the executives on their feet, greeting the leadership of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

This is the same as Muhammad bin Salman, who was briefly treated with the name Unwanted In Washington for his suspected killing and piracy role into parts of the column writer in the Washington Post.

“Trade, not chaos”, is how Trump described the winning approach to the Saudi leader, before he turned into criticism of the crowded Western bodies.

He said: “It is very important that we note the broader world, that this great transformation (in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) did not come from Western intervention specialists or fly in beautiful planes that gives you lectures on how to live and how to control your own affairs.”

“No, Rayyad and Abu Dhabi’s miracle were not created by the so -called nation building, or the new or unparalleled consolidation such as those who spent trillion dollars trillions and dollars in the development of Kabul, Baghdad, and many other cities.”

He said that Trump mocked the so -called nation building and who destroyed more countries more than their structure, and interfered in the complex societies they did not understand.

Stephen Vertim, the Carnegie International Foreign Policy historian, said that the speech was “perhaps the most clear expression of how Trump saw foreign policy.”

“He has publicly built transactions.”

What does this mean for the rest of us

The title helped weave loose strands in events that have nothing to do with its chairmanship.

Gaza? From Trump’s point of view, It must be refugeRich in American hotels and investors. Ukraine? President Voludmir Zelinski got a browbeaten at the White House, but he has since signed a US-UKRAINE MINERALS Deal She returned to the best yes Trump.

Trump announced hundreds of billions in Business deals In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, including a Huge investment At the sprawling data center. During the trip, he also lifted sanctions on Syria, as a applause led by the Saudi leader.

Does this approach make the world safer? Foreign policy thinkers with this story raised some professionals, admitted negatives, then on balance, that they do not know.

“On the other hand, he says, allowing Autocrats Free Rin is a possible recipe for instability,” said Vertim, who sees some benefits – less risks of a specific type of war, and reducing accusations of our hypocrisy while promoting democracy.

“Nobody knows. No one is at all,” said Daniel Merihar, a historian of US foreign policy at North Western University. He agrees with Trump that building the nation was destroyed, but it is worried about a world of dictatorships of their citizens, threatening neighboring countries, without fear of the United States, in the early twentieth century.

Trump’s Light’s values ​​approach has the ability to make foreign affairs less, and no more, predictable.

Do not look further than our allies, opponents, and now they find themselves confused about the place where they are standing. Look at how to detonate it hot and cold on NATO, on Ukraine and China, Imposing and removing definitionsThe deviation is back and forth in restricting trade in High -tech products.

It may be difficult to plan about it. Especially for countries closest to the United States, especially one, Canada, which it continues to talk about as a goal to acquire companies.

Canadians may attract a limited reassurance of something rare. Trump said he will do it as a principle: defending Canada if invaded.

“We protect Canada militarily and we will always do. This is not a financial thing,” Trump said during his meeting at the White House with Prime Minister Mark Carney.

There is some call for Trump’s approach to foreign policy. Even his critics waived it. Two former Obama employees, in their foreign foreign pods this week, greeted Trump’s things in the Middle East.

They said that the traditional attitudes of foreign policy in Washington are not sometimes enough transactions; Trump applauded his ignorance of any criticism, including from the Israeli ally, and reopening relations with Syria.

“I think Trump deserves a lot of credit POD save the worldAdding that he loves the fact that Trump does not care about what the political “Blob” believes in Washington.

New York Times Correspondents in different parts of the Arab world recorded mixed reactions In a piece entitled: “Trump pledged to the Middle East: It is no longer” lectures on how to live. “

Human rights lawyer told the newspaper that this is less than hypocrisy for the United States to talk constantly about rights and democracy, then he selectively ignored these things in the places and moments that suit them. At least now, the Americans said clear. Or are they?

Consistent philosophy? Not exactly

There is still hypocrisy, or at least contradictions. The United States speaks to the Autocrats and the Communists on several continents, but in part for local political reasons, which it closes Venezuela and Cuba.

This is one of the reasons for not reading a lot in the speech, says Wrstim. It is not a comfortable philosophy. As he says, Trump is not a radical change agent as he presents himself.

For example: The new conservatives rushed to spread democracy at gunpoint for years. This is true, Joe Biden, Ukraine, and sent them weapons; Vertim added that he opposed the intervention similar to Bush and actually withdrew from one mission of this task, in Afghanistan.

As for the possible influence of Trump’s human rights position, the Times also spoke to people in the Middle East concerned about what it might mean.

One of them was a double -year -old son in the United States, who is 75 years old, is prohibited from leaving the kingdom after it was He was arrested, then issuedOn critical social media functions. He said that the previous American administrations may have sparked this with the Saudis. But he said he was unable to get anyone in the Trump administration to talk to him.

On the podcast, former OBama employees said there is a third approach. The middle land between the military adventure and democracy-at the end, and on the other side, the indifference close to democratic values.

Bin Rhodes said: “We should not let (Trump) accurately ignore the American intervention that leads you to the belief that the only alternative is a handful of, let’s face it, a handful of … American American executives and a group of the royal family sitting around them and decided everything themselves as well.”

“There must be a voice for people in these discussions in this part of the world.”

The Podcast episode was entitled “Con Man Air: Trump’s Middle Cash Grab”, reflecting a serious view of this journey in the Middle East like Grift For Trump and His family.

It can be ease with a reference to Trump’s external graphics philosophy.

Unlike Ronald Reagan, who talked about America A bright city on TalTrump talks about a different sparkle – about the golden age, moving by a simpler and more clear philosophy: follow the money. Where the ideal is outside, the art of the deal is in.