Trump was received on Tuesday in Riad by him Saudi heir prince Mohamed Bin Salmán. Both signed one “Strategic Economic Association” Among its nations in the fields of defense, energy, police and minerals.
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The White House explained that Trump obtained the prince’s commitment that Saudi Arabia will invest 600,000 million dollars in the United States, including one Buy in defense material for 142,000 million dollars, the “greatest agreement for the sale of defense of history” of the USA.
Saudi heir prince Mohammed Bin Salman (center), walks with US President Donald Trump (left) upon his arrival in Riad on May 13, 2025. (Photo of Brendan Smialowski / AFP).
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Several joint funds for investments will also be created in areas such as energy, for 5,000 million dollars; defense and aerospace industry for the same amount; as well as 4,000 million focused on sports.
The White House reported that Saudi investments will include 80,000 million dollars in Google, Datavolt, Oracle, Salesforce, AMD and Uber.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, meets with the Saudi heir prince in Riyadh on May 13, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP).
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Trump He spoke during a bilateral investment forum where he was accompanied by Bin Salman. He said that The great transformation of the Middle East “has not come from Western interventionism, airy with lessons on how to live or how to govern your own matters. ”
“The gleaming wonders of Riad or Abu Dhabi were not created by the so -called nations builders, the ‘neocons’ (neoconservatives) or the liberal foundations such as those that were spent billion failing in the development of Kabul or Baghdad,” he said.
“In the end, those called nations builders have destroyed more nations than those they have raised and the interventionists, who intervened in complex societies that they did not understand. They told you how to do it, but they did not know or apply it to themselves,” he said.
Trump He also mentioned a Iran and warned him that the United States will exercise a “Maximum pressure” if you refuse to sign a new nuclear agreement. In addition, he announced the lifting of the sanctions that weighed on Syria.
These are the keys to Trump’s tour
The war in Gaza
Trump He reached Middle East hours after his government achieved the liberation of the American hostage Edan Alexanderafter direct negotiation with Hamas in which Israel did not participate. Is the prelude to an announcement that could be made regarding the war in Gaza started in October 2023?
“Everything is possible,” Henrique Cymerman told El ComercioIsraeli journalist who widely covers the conflict in the Middle East.
In Loop There are still 58 hostages in Hamas. On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin NetanyahuHe announced that his army will enter “with all his strength” in Gaza in the next few days and that he does not contemplate any scenario in which his country stops the war.
“Trump It has been saying that he wants to obtain a global agreement in the Middle East that includes the end of the war in Gaza and the liberation of hostages … I believe that he has an extraordinarily broad agenda. All this is possible, but the question is where the shots go, and what we understand here is that There is a diplomatic offensive to several bands that aims to solve several problems at the same timeand that also intends to include large investments by Gulf countries in the United States, “said Cymerman.
The journalist explained that the success of the negotiation for Alexander’s release must also be attributed to the military pressure that Netanyahu exerts against Hamas. “This military pressure is putting Hamas in a complicated situation, and that is why they agreed to free Alexander and return to the negotiating table in Qatar.”
However, Cymerman considers that the case of Alexander It is a small pull of Ears to Netanyahu, because in reality the United States ended up getting its release.
What is missing for the end of the war? Hamas wants an agreement that contemplates the total withdrawal of Israel de Gaza. While Israel seeks the elimination of Hamas to end the conflict.
“I think Trump is giving Israel a limited time to hit Hamas, but I don’t think he has a blank check. It seems to me that we are somehow at the beginning of the end,” said Cymerman, for whom what will happen in the next few days in Qatar is key.
The journalist said that Gaza and the demilitarization of that territory are going to be administered. He added that Hamas has already accepted that he will not be part of Gaza’s political future, but he still does not accept to deliver weapons, something that is not acceptable for Israel and the United States and the Palestinian authority.
The Iran Factor
Another priority of the agenda of Trump is to solve the issue of Iran and the elimination of its nuclear program. For this, he has preferred the path of negotiation.
“The question is whether an agreement with Iran is going to get this nuclear race for now, or some type of military attack is being planned in the future,” said Cymerman.
With respect to before the attack of October 7, 2023, Iran is very weakened, said Cymerman, who added that the war in Gaza worsened the internal situation in the Islamic Republic. He said that most of the population does not want the regime.
“The Iranian opposition with which I speak calculates that 85% of the population opposes this government of the Ayatolas. They have a problem with women, to whom they repress; They have one of the highest percentages in the world of drug addicts; Many people are HIV/AIDS carrier. To all this we must add the military coup that Israel He gave him last year in retaliation. That sum makes Iran be in a fairly weak position, “he said.
But the journalist said that Iran has enough enriched uranium to make between six and seven nuclear bombs.
“Trump is trying to stop this process by diplomatic route. It is not known if he will achieve it. What I see is that in parallel to the negotiations, the military option is being prepared by both the United States and Israel in all kinds of joint exercises that have been carried out in recent weeks,” he said.
Abraham’s agreements
The Abraham agreements They are a series of bilateral pacts of normalization of relations signed in 2020 between Israel and Arab countries such as United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan. The United States has been the main mediator in this process.
Until before the war in Gaza, Saudi Arabia I was going to sign it, something that was going to mean a geopolitical event of great magnitude that would mark a turning point in the Arab and Islamic world, because that country is the guardian of the Holy places of Islam and a key regional power in the Middle East.
Cymerman said that for the first time countries like Syria and somehow have said they want to be part of Abraham’s agreements.
