Eight years ago, a few days before President Donald Trump’s first term, I joined his other senior advisers in the White House Situation Room to discuss our approach to Saudi Arabia, which is in an internal power struggle. Should we work with Saudi leaders who have worked with the United States and the United States for decades to do business? Or we will seize the opportunity of the younger generation who are untested but committed to large-scale social and economic changes.

Jared Kushner has filed a case for the new leader, especially Mohamed bin Salman (MBS) (MBS). Kushner argues that they will take Saudi Arabia in a different direction - away from religious and social grandparents of isolated, extremist older people and build a modern, tolerant and open society with rights to women.

They want to diversify Saudi economy rather than rely on oil and create a modern country focused on technology, investment and infrastructure. They will oppose Islamic extremism and work with us to destroy the terror movement. They are open to the idea of ​​peace with Israel, the foundation of a wilderness peace in the Middle East.

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The choice was Trump's and one of his first major foreign policy decisions. He will continue to support Israel's insistence, but he bets on the younger generation of Sunni Arab leaders. He quit President Barack Obama's flawed nuclear weapons deal with Iran, believing that the road to peace in the Middle East passes through Riyadh and Israel, not Tehran.

Traveling to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE this week is Trump's victory circle. His biggest bet in 2017 paid off. He can proudly say: “Before our eyes, a new generation of leaders are moving beyond the conflicts and weary divisions of the past and forging a future where the Middle East is defined by commerce rather than chaos, rather than exporting technology, not terrorism;

The Gulf Arab states led by Saudi Arabia have achieved remarkable things in the past eight years, despite giving cold shoulders during the Biden administration. They are crucial to destroying ISIS and other Islamic extremist movements. They play a major behind-the-scenes role in the Abrahamic agreement between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco. Although Saudi Arabia is not yet a formal signatory to the Abraham Agreement, it is still on the way.

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Saudis and other Gulf Arab leaders are now urging Trump to have dialogue with the new Syrian leader. During this trip, he bet on peace again and is sanctioning severely on Syria to give them "great chance". If Trump is right, Syria will no longer be a scourge for decades. Using chemical weapons on their own people, presided over extremist groups eager to spread death and destruction, and welcome Russian influence.

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Perhaps most importantly, Trump has adopted the core of the American interventionist foreign policy by political parties in the past 20 years. We will no longer fight for eternity in the Middle East to force them into American molds. We will no longer give “lectures on how to live or how to manage our own affairs.”

As Trump said in his first speech to the UN General Assembly in 2017: "We do not want all kinds of countries to share the same culture, traditions, or even governmental system. However, we do want all countries to comply with these two core sovereign obligations: respecting the interests of their own people, and the rights of all other large countries...

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“In America, we don’t seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but to make it shine as a role model for everyone to watch.”

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Our policy is to peace through power-cover all our forms of power, not just our military power.

250 years ago, what better way than to encourage other “sovereign states to allow their people to have their future and control their own destiny.”

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