Saudi-Led ‘Arab NATO’ ‘Will Destabilize Mideast, Unleash Massive War in Region’
SputnikNews.com
20.05.2017
President Trump has kicked off his first foreign tour, with Saudi Arabia as his main stop. There, he will meet with leaders from across the Muslim world. Commenting on the trip, political scientist Veronika Krasheninnikova warned that if the US goes ahead with plans for a Saudi-led ‘Arab NATO’, it would destabilize the Middle East and lead to war.
Trump arrived in Riyadh on Saturday morning, the Saudi capital being the first stop of his nine day multi-country tour, which includes Israel, Italy, Vatican City and Belgium. As expected, US and Saudi officials have showered one another with kind words and accolades about the great friendship and partnership between the two countries.
And while the White House has tried to present Trump’s trip as a grand and symbolic journey – with the president visiting the centers of the world’s major Abrahamic religions, other observers and pundits have said that it looks more like an escape from scandals back home. Anti-Trump politicians and the establishment media have overwhelmed the new administration with dubious claims about secretive connections to Russia, and attacked him on other, more substantive issues, like healthcare reform.
Still, as political scientist Veronika Krasheninnikova points out in an analysis for Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency, Trump’s personal suffering at the hands of the US establishment is not an excuse to shield him from criticism of the real and “systematic military and political initiatives created by the president and carried out by his generals and the economic forces which stand behind him.”
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