Trump’s ‘principled realism’ is anything but

He has bought into an Arab narrative of an inevitable conflict between Iran and the Arab world, and has all but promised the U.S. would fight on the Arab side.
U.S. President Donald Trump and King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia talk May 20 at the Royal Court Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
LONDON, U.K.—The media mostly missed it (or chose to ignore it as a piece of meaningless rhetoric), but Donald Trump proclaimed a new doctrine in his speech to the assembled leaders of the Muslim world in Saudi Arabia earlier this month. It goes by the name of “principled realism,” although it...

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