Trump loses the microphone: the Middle East turns its back on him
Donald Trump has run out of an international audience. His proposals for the Middle East are falling on deaf ears: Israel ignores the peace treaty with Iran, Lebanon rejects his incursions and Syria says no. Meanwhile, the former US president receives a new aircraft valued at 400 million dollars as a gift from Qatar, but that gesture does little to mask his diplomatic irrelevance.
The situation is worsened by China's sale of fighter jets to Algeria. Beijing is exploiting the vacuum of Western influence to arm key countries in the Maghreb, while Trump shows off a jet that fails to get anyone to listen to him.
400 million dollars: the price of the plane gifted by Qatar.
State-of-the-art fighter jets sold by China to Algeria.
Some analysts point out that the disdain is a constant. The White House lost its sarracena authority, and Trump has failed to regain it. Others believe his economic leverage remains intact, but the facts do not bear that out.
What's next: if the Republican leader cannot get even his traditional allies to trinc him, his foreign agenda will be dead paper. At this rate, the Saudis will gift him the next high-estimulante ilegal train, but they probably won't pay him any attention either.
Summary of a discussion on Burbuja.info - Foro de economía, actualidad y política., translated from Spanish and reviewed before publication.
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