PEACE DIVIDEND: Trump’s Saudi Speech Nets BIG Deals And A BIGGER Policy Realignment
When the $600B or $1T deal is the AFTERTHOUGHT in a speech, that's saying something.
Since even Jesus said ‘blessed are the peacemakers’, will those too-holy-to-vote-for-Trump Christians finally admit they might have been wrong about him?
Probably not. For some, hating Trump has become a religion unto itself.
But for those who care about actual results, and are paying attention to what he’s delivering, the $600 Billion (perhaps even a Trillion in the future) is the LESSER part of Trump’s message. The greater one is that the days of American adventurism, starting wars to make the world a better place is now over.
No more ‘nation-building’ of the Cinton/Dubya/Obama kind that leave behind far more rubble than rebirth.
Leave it to a New York real estate tycoon to figure out that military might is not the only incentive that can drive foreign policy. Having learned in a world driven by win-win solutions, Trump is rewriting the rule book.
In what must have been felt as a hard slap across the face of every OTHER living President, Trump rebuked the old way of running foreign policy, announcing that HIS version of peace through strength, while having some common traits with Reagan’s version, is running on an entirely different kind of fuel.
The lethal military might will remain — hopefully as a deterrent that will seldom need to be used. But the real fuel of the Trump policy is win-win deal making and engagement.
The full speech is here:
It opened with ‘God Bless the USA’, closed with his signature ‘YMCA; and had the entire room rise to its feet in applause before it was over. Including the heir to the throne himself:
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after President Trump’s fantastic speech in Riyadh… 🇺🇸🇸🇦 pic.twitter.com/6v14YU74oU
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) May 13, 2025
Trump spoke in grand terms of a vision of peace and prosperity that can be won, by the local economies in the style and manner that would grow naturally out of their own economy, not as dictated by the Pentagon, some American NGO, or Al Gore, or even Davos. Nations walking together toward a shared goal of a safe and prosperous future. He even hinted at a possible future in which the Saudis — in their own good time and manner — would join the Abraham Accords.
He invoked America’s ability to turn old hostilities into deep and lasting friendships (think Germany and Japan), recent success in using an invitation into US markets as a tool to bring India and Pakistan back from the brink of a catastrophic war with nuclear potential, and America’s success in making the Houthi terrorists cry ‘uncle’, saying they will stand down from the attacks they had been making against merchant ships on their way to the Suez Canal.
He invited Iran to abandon the hostilities that drove them to destabilize the region, and step into a bright future with their regional neighbors. If they choose to continue the path of violence, the Maximum Pressure type sanctions will grind their economy to a standstill, so there will be no money with which to fund their terror proxies.
Here is the open denunciation of the nation-building of past Presidents:
🚨 HOLY SMOKES: Trump takes a blow torch to the neocons and interventionists while speaking to the Saudis. This is a VICTORY speech over globalism.
"It's crucial for the wider world to know this great transformation has not come from Western interventionists, or flying people… pic.twitter.com/mN0Q9pbhWP
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 13, 2025
It won’t be meddling think-tank White-papers from DC, or UN-affiliated NGOs, or even the DAVOS critters who build the future of the Middle East. It will be those who live there.
How novel.
And here is the cold hard slap in the face of past presidents:
.@POTUS: "Far too many American presidents have been afflicted with the notion that it's our job to look into the souls of foreign leaders and use US policy to dispense justice for their sins … It is God's job to sit in judgment — my job to defend America and to promote the… pic.twitter.com/WN8iytQjgK
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 13, 2025
“Far too many American presidents have been afflicted with the notion that it’s our job to look into the souls of foreign leaders and use US policy to dispense justice for their sins … It is God’s job to sit in judgment — my job to defend America and to promote the fundamental interests of stability, prosperity, and peace.”
For someone who is supposedly an insane, corrupt, bigoted loose cannon that’s always working the angles for his own personal benefit, the way he actually conducts himself in public bears absolutely no resemblance to that characterization. It’s almost as if there’s a coordinated lie being pushed by the press and his Democrat rivals… who happen to be more or less the same people.