For decades the United Stated has struggled to avoid potential nuclear weapon attacks from Middle East; Obama’s government, was engaged tried an approach to listen and keep peace with these countries establishing deals or sanctions such as Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), but these undergo a different treatment under Trump’s administration. Last month Iran decided to violate the sanctions imposed under JPCOA in part due to Trump’s regime imposing highest pressure on the Country undermining human rights, push down their economy, brought unemployment, poverty, hunger, shortage of medicines, to an almost near collapse. Trump paid no attention to NATO, and disregard all policies and protocols in international security, refusing to make joint efforts therefore diminishing America’s power and influence, indeed Trump’s behavior is arbitrary and threating over Middle east have alienated allied countries such as Germany, Britain, France that don’t support any unilateral decisions in international affairs from Trump’s government.
On the other hand, Trump keeps pursuing goal that not necessarily benefit America’s position on the word, dealing arms with Saudi Arabia, spending a lot of billions of dollars and putting pressure to sell F-35 stealth fighters and advanced armed drones to the United Arab Emirates. Besides the peace deal, went down after Trump attempted to change “land for peace” deal with “money for peace”, in Palestine, but Palestinians did not follow his play and rejected his proposal. Moreover, remarkable failures like Libya’s current situation who is in the midst of a civil war, Egypt going down with military dictator, Yemen in a humanitarian disaster among others, all these latest events highlighted Trump’s lack of strategy absence of moral compass and failure of leadership have damaged America’s prestige.
Kevinn,
Yes, the president’s Middle East policy does appear to be in disarray. In fact, the only bright spot is the fact that they managed to get the UAE and Bahrain to establish diplomatic relations with Israel. But the Administration’s handling of Iran has been extremely poor. After rejecting the JCPOA, they have tried to pressure other allies to go along, but they have refused to do so. Now they are attempting to “Snap Back” the sanctions that previously were in place–only the allies will not agree to this either. So it’s a double loss for the US–and needlessly so.
–Professor Wallerstein