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Link: https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-middle-east-saudi-qatar-iran-israel-452018863e00f7739078d5b912293894<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 47th President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has a planned trip to the Middle East this week. This trip will include visits to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. Trump will focus his attention on the three energy-rich nations home to existing or planned Trump-branded real estate projects \u2014 places where he aims to leverage American economic interests. \u201cThis is his happy place,\u201d said Jon B. Alterman, a senior vice president at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. \u201cHis hosts will be generous and hospitable. They\u2019ll be keen to make deals. They\u2019ll flatter him and not criticize him. And they\u2019ll treat his family members as past and future business partners.\u201d \u201cTrump can easily score a win by reassuring them of America\u2019s strategic commitment to the region, demonstrating consistent messaging and generally rising above the fray,\u201d analysts Elizabeth Dent and Simon Henderson of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy wrote Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is important because it shows how Trump is attempting to create stronger ties with various countries in the Middle East, as well as forge new deals that could prove to benefits both himself and the American people. This also shows how Trump is trying to make up for his last visit to the Middle East in 2017, what became known as the Qatar crisis. According to AP, that is when Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE boycotted Qatar over its support of Islamists in the region and its ties to Iran, with which it shares a massive offshore natural gas field. The dispute grew so serious that Kuwait\u2019s ruling emir at the time, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, suggested on a visit to the White House there could have been \u201cmilitary action.\u201d Trump initially criticized Qatar as having \u201chistorically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level\u201d at the start of the boycott. Less than a year later, he praised Qatar and rolled that back. The four nations ended their boycott just before Biden took office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This relates to what we learned in class because it shows how important individuals are in international relations and diplomacy. Specific individuals like heads of state and monarchs play a huge role in determining the course their state takes and the attitude their country will have in response to various events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Link: https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-middle-east-saudi-qatar-iran-israel-452018863e00f7739078d5b912293894 The 47th President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has a planned trip to the Middle East this week. This trip will include visits to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. Trump will focus his attention on the three energy-rich nations home to existing or planned Trump-branded real estate projects \u2014 places where he aims to… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6762"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6770,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions\/6770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}