Donald Trump's foreign policy flip in the Middle East

All the "billion-dollar contracts and bling" of his visit to the Gulf last week shouldn't blind us to the fact that "Donald Trump pulled off a diplomatic coup, perhaps the boldest of his second term", said Pierre Haski in World Crunch (Paris). Surprising even his own Treasury officials, the US president announced in Riyadh that he was lifting all sanctions on Syria – paving the way for the country's reintegration into the international community after the toppling of dictator Bashar al-Assad in 2024.