Trump sucks up to the Saudis

[Magical Realist]

Remember that murder a few years back of the American journalist where they used "bone saws" on him? I do. It was horrific and sickening. And so Trump flies over now and kisses that murderer's ass..

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[Syne]

Everywhere in the Middle East is a brutal dictatorship, except for Israel being the only democracy. Trump has already gotten Moracco, Bahrain, Sudan, and the UAE to join the Abraham Accords, which normalizes and stabilizes relationships between Middle Eastern countries (acknowledging nations' sovereignty, etc.). Now Trump seeks to include Saudi Arabia.

But leftists would rather leave those regimes antagonistic to democratic values in general and to Israel specifically... because leftists are fundamentally un-democratic and are the primary supporters of antisemitic BDS. Like Ukraine, the once peace-nik left are now the biggest war hawks.

[Yazata]

President Trump's Mideast trip is turning out to be extraordinarily productive.

Building up friendly relationships with most of the exceedingly wealthy Gulf Arabs (countries that China has been aggressively courting). Literally trillions in new investment in the United States (which shows where they would prefer to invest their money). Big airliner deals for Boeing (a company that has been struggling and needs the business).

I was a little disappointed that there weren't any announcements of new recruits for the Abraham accords, but strengthened alliances with the US and improved economic ties will accomplish much the same thing.

They liked Trump's repudiation of previous administrations' (not all democrats either) "nation building" fantasies by people who didn't even understand the cultures that they destabilized and presumed to morally judge, zealots who did more to destroy nations than build them, leaving a trail of failed states behind them.

The announcement of a new American doctrine where other cultures are free to live how they themselves choose to live, according to their own traditions, while the US does the same. All in peace and mutual prosperity. True global diversity.

All in all, looking very good in my opinion.

The world's tallest building in Dubai

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[C C]

[...] The announcement of a new American doctrine where other cultures are free to live how they themselves choose to live, according to their own traditions, while the US does the same. All in peace and mutual prosperity. True global diversity. [...]

Despite being yet another offshoot of critical theory activity, postcolonialism ironically entails that a country that was formerly dominated by the cultural hegemony of the West should be free to restore its own heritage values and even dismiss the rest of the social engineering slash ethics package that the US (and occasionally Europe?) has been exporting to the rest of the world.

Via that specific route, critical scholarship contains the seeds of its own destruction -- at least as far as non-Western countries being allowed to reject some of the past conditional policies once attached to government aid (from the US) and the overall set of lecturing and preaching that is marketed to them via extended avenues (including Western higher education outlets, published works of Western literary intellectuals, and virtue-posturing progressive businesses and corporations).

[Yazata]

https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/192...8157622279

[Syne]

The announcement of a new American doctrine where other cultures are free to live how they themselves choose to live, according to their own traditions, while the US does the same. All in peace and mutual prosperity. True global diversity.

Throughout history, the move toward long-lasting democracy has always come from the inside of a culture, never the outside.

https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/192...8157622279

LOL!

[Yazata]

They liked Trump's repudiation of previous administrations' (not all democrats either) "nation building" fantasies by people who didn't even understand the cultures that they destabilized and presumed to morally judge, zealots who did more to destroy nations than build them, leaving a trail of failed states behind them.

The announcement of a new American doctrine where other cultures are free to live how they themselves choose to live, according to their own traditions, while the US does the same. All in peace and mutual prosperity. True global diversity.

It really is a new American doctrine:

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/192...5028497464