Category: Political

After Trump’s Riyadh speech, the West may cease to exist as we know it

Trump has changed 249 years of American foreign policy. With a fervor once reserved for anti-colonialist revolutionaries, the second-term US president reminded his spellbound audience that the futuristic cities like Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by neo-cons or liberals who erroneously describe themselves as nation builders as they trundle through the wrecked landscapes of Tripoli in Libya, Kabul and Baghdad.