... against the US and play its own geopolitical games freely and independently. Besides, Ankara made it clear that it is ready to play a «bigger» and more significant role in regional affairs than ever.
Conclusions
The expected re-election of US President Donald Trump will continue to have profound implications on the Middle East, and the inability to predict Western actions in the region and the profound absence of a coherent policy will affect regional actors such as Turkey, Iran and Israel. Thus, the Gulf is slated to explode even without war on Iran because the ...
... for Moscow.
The withdrawal of American forces from Syria is said to be a gift to Russia. As the sole power from outside the Middle East with military forces and political influence in Syria, Russia may indeed become the security manager in that country.... ... long been observed that Americans create problems both when they move into foreign countries and when they leave. President Donald Trump’s decision to abandon the US’s Kurdish allies certainly invited the Turks to intervene on a larger scale than ...
The wave of violence caused by Trump’s decision will be difficult to stop, as the U.S. President does not back down from his word
The recent decision of President Donald Trump with regard to Jerusalem is just one more surprise in the endless series of surprises in the Middle East. Numerous analysts overlook the fact that there are actually two separate parts to the decision, which has proved fateful for the Middle East. It is a double toe loop. The first part is about recognizing the whole of Jerusalem as the capital ...
... ongoing media frenzy, America seems deeply divided over whether to pursue a hard line with Russia or to cooperate with it. With Donald Trump favoring the latter course, Moscow “voted” for him in the 2016 elections. But the Kremlin’s cybernetic interference ... ... question of US future policies remains open. Seeking answers requires a fundamental reexamination of Washington’s 21st century Middle East wars, where at every turn Russian-American relations formed the hidden context. The story began in 2001-2002, when ...
Donald Trump reserves the right to change his policy towards the Middle East
Three months of Donald Trump’s presidency have wreaked havoc with American foreign policy that has been traditionally quite resilient despite ambitions of every new Administration. President Trump’s team has produced policy statements that contradict one another ...
... for a long time in response to moderate election platforms and routine rhetoric from the entrenched establishment. Brexit and Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election became symbols of these changes. The referendum in Great Britain ... ... relations are unlikely to improve dramatically in the next year.
The trends of the past few years continued to prevail in the Middle East in 2016. The first of them is the consolidation of the role of regional powers, primarily Iran and Turkey. The second ...
... around the world, increasingly including our country. And they don’t need any weapons. Just yesterday 18-year old Somali at Ohio State University attacked his fellow students with a car and butcher knife and injured several.
Vasily Kuznetsov:
Donald Trump Will Create a “Window
Of Opportunity” In the Middle East
Even before his inauguration, the president-elect should present Putin with proposals for a joint Syrian policy. As our small institute proposed in BESA (Center for Strategic Studies of Bar llan University) paper, they should include: a) the ...
... remain highly topical issues on the Middle East agenda. Vasily Kuznetsov, RIAC expert and Director of the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences, outlines the new U.S. policy in the Middle East.
Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president was a complete surprise to everyone: the American political establishment, the diplomatic establishment and the expert community, which like everyone else were all confident that Hillary Clinton would win....
... of George W. Bush’s failed offensive strategy, the “regime change” policy and forced democratization in the Middle East and in other regions of the world in 2008, Democratic candidate Barack Obama at that time called for establishing ... ... other power centres (such as China and Russia) and rejecting interventionism and excessive reliance on military power. In 2016, Donald Trump advocated similar values of
strategic restraint and a prudent foreign policy
.
In contrast, his opponent Hillary ...
... This is simply impossible since Riyadh has already seen that the Democrats are quite capable of abandoning their allies to their fate, and it will insure itself against possible risks.
Donald Trump and the Dream of Pragmatism
Unlike Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump doubts whether
the big Middle Eastern game is worth it
, since it does not promise any economic or political benefits; on the contrary, it promises only expenses. At the same time, judging by his campaign speeches, he clearly sees the threats coming to America from the Middle ...
