The Middle East has no equal in luring America into its traps.
Any leader of the world's leading power, Joe Biden is going there for the next four days as a beggar rather than a master of the game. The American disengagement from the region, the fruit of twenty years of military or strategic failures in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, reduces the expectations of local actors towards the late “world policeman”.
The Israeli, Palestinian and Saudi leaders are aware of welcoming a weakened head of the White House, who is constantly stumbling with age, at the mercy of a rout in the next legislative elections and pushed by his own camp not to not stand for a second term.
If he had been able, the old diplomat president, who has been surveying these countries for half a century, would have refrained from publicly denying an electoral promise: Mohammed Ben Salman (MBS), crown prince in charge in Riyadh, would be treated by Washington in
“pariah”
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