{"id":78326,"date":"2018-03-18T13:07:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T17:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78326"},"modified":"2018-03-18T13:07:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T17:07:03","slug":"trump-shakes-tin-cup-at-saudis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78326","title":{"rendered":"Trump shakes tin cup at Saudis"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/a> reports that President Trump asked the Saudis for four billion dollars to help shore up victories in Syria to keep the Syrian government from reclaiming the areas and to prevent a resurgence of ISIS fighters as the US tries to disengage from middle east politics. <\/p>\n

The Saudis have withdrawn from events in the Levant over the last few years, and Trump is asking them to pull their weight;<\/p>\n

The Saudis…are questioning the eye-popping sum even as U.S. officials at one point were drawing up line items totaling $4 billion.<\/p>\n

For Trump – who has long railed against insufficient burden-sharing by allies under the U.S. security umbrella – getting others to foot the bill for expensive postwar efforts is important.<\/p>\n

A $4 billion Saudi contribution would go a long way toward U.S. goals in Syria that the Saudis say they share, particularly that of limiting Assad’s power and rolling back Iran’s influence. By comparison, the United States last month announced a $200 million donation to the stabilization effort.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Trump is eager to get the United States out of a war in which he has already claimed that victory over the Islamic State is near.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe, if our allies had been more willing to put some effort into stabilizing Iraq in 2003, our commitment there would have ended sooner and been less bloody for us. We’ve been doing the heavy lifting for the whole world for more than seventy years, it’s about time we asked for a little help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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