Trump’s engagement in the Middle East: more “conferences on the way of life”

When President Trump declared the scene of an opulent ballroom in Saudi Arabia, the United States has been carried out and intervened, that global superpower “will give you more conferences on how to live”, his audience broke into applause.

He effectively denounced decades of American policy in the Middle East, playing grievances long disseminated in cafes and salons from Morocco to Oman.

“In the end, the so-called nation builders destroyed many more nations than they built,” Trump said Tuesday at a radical address at a investment conference in the Saudi capital in Riyadh. “And the interventionists intervene in complex companies that they did not even understand.”

He urged the inhabitants of the region to trace “your own destinations in your own way”.

The reactions to his speech quickly spread to mobile phone screens in a Middle East where American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan – and more recently, American support in Israel when he intensifies his war in Gaza, which is on the brink of famine – are rooted in public conscience and criticized by monarchists and dissidents.

Sultan Alamer, a The Saudi academic joked by saying that Mr. Trump’s remarks seemed to come from Frantz Fanon, a 20th century Marxist thinker who wrote on the dynamics of colonial oppression. The Syrians have published memes of celebration when Mr. Trump announced that he would end the American sanctions on their country ravaged by the war “in order to give them a chance of greatness.”

And in Yemen – another country mired in war and subject to American sanctions – Abdullative Mohammed implicit an agreement with the concept of sovereignty of Mr. Trump, even if he expressed his frustration with regard to the American intervention.