“We have achieved an unparalleled political victory that will allow America to be made great again,” Trump said, stressing that “America will enter a golden age.”
In light of his progress in the popular vote and his approach to deciding the electoral college votes in his favor, with his winning 267 votes compared to 224 for his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, before all ballot boxes were officially closed, Republican candidate Donald Trump addressed his supporters from his campaign headquarters in Florida, declaring his victory in the US presidential elections.
Trump fought his third presidential battle in a world experiencing political and security tensions, after the administration of former President Joe Biden relied on a policy of “containment” for both China and Russia, and adopted support for Israel in its war with Iran and those with it in the axis in the Middle East.
Both Russia and China considered that the decision to build a new world had been made and there was no going back from it, and that the decisions that resulted from the BRICS summit held in Kazan, Russia, last October, including creating an alternative commercial currency to the US dollar, It is now in effect.
Therefore, some are wondering which path back to “great America” Trump will take? What about the “American Golden Age” that he spoke at a time that was on the cusp of post-“Americanization”?
“Trump won,” yes, but his victory for a second term is different from his victory in his first term, as the man was not known in the global political arena. He came from the world of finance and trade, but today’s world has begun to realize how he thinks, and what steps he will take in The White House, especially with regard to hot topics taking place in more than one international arena. Therefore, he prepared for it, and Trump was determined to fulfill his wishes.
Today’s world is different from the world of 2020 when he left the White House. Also, the votes that Trump obtained in the 2016 elections did not obtain all of them in the 2020 elections, so he lost the battle to Biden.
Today, with his announcement of victory, his advisors must realize that the percentage of votes that made him president does not mean that they support his policies, nor does it mean that they believe all the promises he made in his election campaign. Rather, it means that it will be an obstacle to his domestic and foreign policies if he renounces what he promised, and at the top of these voices are the voices of the Arab and Islamic community inside America.
Trump’s personality at the level of America’s foreign diplomacy is a source of concern, specifically in his country’s relations with NATO and Russia. While Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that Trump’s accession to the presidency will provide better hope for ending the conflict in Eastern Europe, the alliance considers that it is prepared for all scenarios, especially those that carried direct threats from Trump that member states must pay their financial obligations, otherwise what will happen? Washington must withdraw.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte congratulated the Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, on his election victory, stressing that he will keep the alliance strong, saying: “We look forward to working with Trump to promote peace.”
Trump has no choice but to go too far in “disengaging” from NATO, especially after Russia stood before Great America, which Trump dreams of returning to its golden age. American isolationism from Europe will not weaken it as much as it will make Russia stronger, and here lies the real threat to the United States.
Therefore, European countries took proactive steps and increased about 2% of their national product to finance the defense budget last August, and European countries are also moving towards revitalizing their military arsenal in a way that simulates the challenges on the international arena.
The situation today in Trump’s second term has become more complicated for Washington with Russia, and what Trump previously stated and gave Russia an incentive to expand his victory has put the latter before a dilemma on the international scene, as he is in a place where he cannot imitate Russia with understandings, and at the same time declare war on China and Iran. . Because the Ukraine war accelerated the convergence between the three countries, made their alliance sacred, and established an unparalleled partnership on the international scene.
Therefore, Trump will not be able to abandon his country’s membership in NATO, because he has raised the bar of challenge high with Iran as well as China. His announcement that Iran was behind the attempt to assassinate him is language for simulating a war with the regime in Tehran, and it also opened the door to confrontation with China before Biden, and imposing sanctions on the Chinese telecommunications company “Huawei” is only an example of the depth of the dispute between the Chinese and American giants.
Election promises motivated some Arab and Muslim voters to elect him, believing that what is happening in the Middle East region is due to Biden’s policy of supporting Israel. But in reality, there is a clear fallacy, based on the fact that what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is doing is nothing but an implementation of what Trump signed in his first term, and the “deal of the century” and “moving the American embassy to Jerusalem” are nothing but evidence of that.
It was not absurd for Netanyahu to dismiss Defense Minister Yoav Galant on the night of the US elections, Tuesday, November 5. The matter of dismissal, although it was a blow to the families of the detainees who called for civil disobedience to remove Netanyahu, it carried within it a clear message to the American side, stating that the dismissal of Gallant, and before him, former Defense Minister Benny Gantz, who is close to the Democrats, is tantamount to a “disengagement” between Netanyahu and the Democratic Party. In the United States.
On the other hand, the appointment of the far-right Yisrael Katz in Gallant’s place is also a clear indication that the extremist Netanyahu government is converging with the rising right in America in the person of Trump, and that it is preparing to implement what Trump previously agreed to in the Middle East, which is “the Israeli national state with Jerusalem as its capital.”
Trump has many dreams for the White House, but the obstacles to achieving them have become more difficult, and what he threatened in his first term may become mere wishful thinking in the second term. Therefore, the matter depends on the wisdom and vision of who will manage the decision in the White House.
Apparently, Trump 2016 is not Trump 2024; Age levels have a role in decision-making. Will we find another Biden to manage the world’s superpowers?
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