Posted on 05/14/2025 10:05:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
There’s more to Donald Trump’s Middle East trip than billion-dollar contracts, parades of camels and a storm back home over Qatar’s offer to give the president a new Air Force One.
A tour narrowly billed by the White House as a chance for Trump to show he’s a master dealmaker is jumbling the region’s geopolitical jigsaw puzzle.
Wherever he goes, Trump’s brings disruption that can forge possibilities. And he takes risks – for instance, his decision on this trip to lift sanctions on Syria to give a war-ravaged nation a second chance.
But the move revives a perennial question about Trump’s entire foreign and trade policy. Can he apply himself sufficiently to reach genuine breakthroughs from openings he creates?
The White House’s obsession with lionizing Trump means his most significant initiatives are often swamped by hype.
So a deal for Qatar to buy Boeing jets worth tens of billions of dollars got more attention back home Wednesday than his encounter in Riyadh with Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa. The historic first meeting between US and Syrian leaders in 25 years, could be the signature initiative of Trump’s tour.
Before he overthrew the murderous dictator Bashar al-Assad, al-Sharaa was a rebel leader who pledged allegiance to al Qaeda and had a $10 million US bounty on his head. Yet Trump sat with him and lifted US sanctions on his civil war-wracked country, hoping to give it a chance to unify and rescue civilians facing severe hunger.
Trump’s geopolitical shake-up doesn’t end in Syria. He’s used the trip to build new pressure on Iran to agree to restrictions on its nuclear program – warning of military action if it refuses but clearly trying to head off...
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Wow, that excerpt is surprisingly bullish on President Trump.
Hard to believe it’s MSN
If your sworn enemies are loving what you are doing, and praising you for it, as a head of state you’ve got yourself into a real situation.
Pretty wild stuff going on
The Monroe Doctrine is beingextended to the ME?
Who knew?
I take this article with a grain of salt, its from MSN.
Take a look at the real result if this trip..
This is all about Russia and Turkey
Russia is no longer a player after this trip.Turkey is left hanging.
Putin is bearded and soon Putin will seek peace or be reduced to the poor house,or assassinated by his own.
The Turks will not be able to subjugate SYria or parts of it.
It sure nice to have a real President in charge.
MSN is the aggregator… its a CNN article … even more shocking
Wow
Isn’t Qatar where the leaders of Hamas live?
CNN is admitting that it isn’t covering the real news about great accomplishments and is covering the fluffy, controversy causing stuff like the Qatar plane.
As much as Trump promotes himself, he seems to take silent pride in what has really been accomplished.
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And, what’s really important is that we don’t know what we don’t know that actually took place but is not on the record.
The commerce hype is real but provides cover for the one on one quiet and secret discussions between President Tump and the Arab leaders
The plans for what to be done with Palestine was the real agenda
If you read the whole article, it turns sour in the second half and becomes just another antiTrump musing.
All of this should have taken place years ago but was placed on hold after Biden stole the election.
Diplomatically, politically, economically, and militarily isolating the Iranian mullahcracy is "more substance". Partisan Media Shills belong in confinement in GTMO.
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