Trump’s Pledge to the Middle East: No More ‘Lectures on How to Live’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/world/middleeast/trump-middle-east-nation-building.html
When President Trump declared from the stage of an opulent ballroom in Saudi Arabia that the United States was done nation-building and intervening, that the world’s superpower would no longer be “giving you lectures on how to live,” his audience erupted in applause.
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“In the end, the so-called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built,” Mr. Trump said on Tuesday, during a sweeping address at an investment conference in the Saudi capital of Riyadh. “And the interventionalists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/world/middleeast/trump-middle-east-nation-building.html
When President Trump declared from the stage of an opulent ballroom in Saudi Arabia that the United States was done nation-building and intervening, that the world’s superpower would no longer be “giving you lectures on how to live,” his audience erupted in applause.
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“In the end, the so-called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built,” Mr. Trump said on Tuesday, during a sweeping address at an investment conference in the Saudi capital of Riyadh. “And the interventionalists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand.”
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How Qatar Spent Billions to Gain Influence in the U.S.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/qatar-us-influence-spending-7a64dd75
The tiny Gulf state has showered money on U.S. military and universities, giving it outsize geopolitical clout.
How Qatar Spent Billions to Gain Influence in the U.S.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/qatar-us-influence-spending-7a64dd75
The tiny Gulf state has showered money on U.S. military and universities, giving it outsize geopolitical clout.