Victor Davis Hanson: Trump is Doing What Neocons Wouldn’t in the Middle East

Former President Donald Trump just returned from a remarkably successful tour of the Middle East Gulf States—and his message? It's time to break with the past.

On today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson,” Hanson says that Trump is promoting security through economic cooperation and criticized the neoconservative legacy of endless wars.

“ What Donald Trump is trying to say is: Let's just not get into politics. Let's not get into offending foreign leaders. … Not to lecture them, but to create economic matrices, nexuses, in which people find that it's in their vested interest to profit rather than to kill people.

“ What he's emphasizing is that there is a common bond in the world. And that common bond is in the heart of everybody. They want peace and they want prosperity and they want security. That's not necessarily antithetical or exclusionary of freedom because, obviously, economic ability—the ability to make money and the ability to be secure—often has an element of what? Freedom.”

0:00Trump's Middle East Tour
1:00Criticism of Prior Administrations
1:54Trump's Foreign Policy Approach
3:40Specific Global Conflicts and Solutions
5:27Criticism and Comparison with Biden's Policies
7:46Conclusion

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