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Laurie Plotkin Bogart, an expert at the American Strategic Studies Department at the Washington Institute, considered US President Trump's choice of Saudi Arabia for his first foreign visit a "significant departure from precedent."
Commenting on Trump's agenda on the institute's website (one of the most important knowledge institutes influencing American politics), Bogart said, "The choice of Saudi Arabia is an indication of President Trump's foreign policy priorities, and also hints at the role that the president and his aides envision the kingdom to play to help achieve their goals." She added, "Trump and King Salman's agenda is a practical vision related to raising the level of the US-Saudi alliance instead of correcting the basic course." Bogart confirmed that President Trump's main goal in the Kingdom is to support the "war on terror."
She noted that the White House and Trump's top foreign policy goal is to "defeat ISIS and other terrorist groups."
The American Strategic Studies Department expert explained that Trump, with the help of experienced policy advisors, concluded that Saudi Arabia constitutes an important part of the solution to the problem of terrorism. terrorism in the world.
And she emphasized the Trump administration’s benefit from Saudi Arabia’s enormous ability to hold meetings for leaders of countries, as the Saudis worked to gather dozens of leaders from all over the Islamic world, from the Middle East, Africa and Asia to meet with the American president at an American-Arab-Islamic summit with the main aim of helping to consolidate an alliance international counter-terrorism campaign, and Riyadh has succeeded in an amazing, rapid and accurate manner in a short time. Bogart confirmed: “The summits relied on a Saudi effort, beginning with the announcement of the “Islamic Military Coalition to Combat Terrorism” from the lowest to the highest levels. its limits.”
The American expert included a second goal behind the US President’s visit, as she described it as less clear, but equally important: consolidating bilateral and multilateral alliances against Tehran. She said: “US Secretary of Defense James Mattis helped lay the foundations for President Trump’s visit in this regard during His visit to the Kingdom in April,” and indicated that Mattis is a well-known figure when it comes to Iran, and he had confirmed during his recent visit to Saudi Arabia: “Wherever you look, if there is a problem in the region, you will find Iran.”
And it reported that Trump has raised the degree of attention to Iranian threats, which target the stability of the states’ allies and partners, and that the new US administration understands and supports Saudi Arabia and other Gulf partners when it comes to the issue of Iranian-backed attempts to destabilize Bahrain, Yemen, Syria and Iraq.
Meteb Al-Awwad (Riyadh)
