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Donald Trump savored, Tuesday, September 15, the new Israeli-Arab breakthrough sponsored by Washington, materialized by the signing of normalization agreements between Israel and two Gulf countries, Bahrain and the Federation of the United Arab Emirates. It allows him to present himself as a champion “Of peace and stability ” in the “New Middle East” whose agreements announce ” dawn “.
This breakthrough comes at the right time for the president. It allows it to make people forget at the international level the failure for the moment of its strategy of “Maximum pressure” in the three countries where it has been applied: North Korea, Iran and Venezuela. The Democratic opponent of the outgoing president, Democrat Joe Biden, opposes his long experience to decisions considered brutal such as the withdrawal of the free trade agreement with countries bordering the Pacific which aimed to stem China, the withdrawals the Paris agreement against global warming and that on Iranian nuclear power, or even the questioning of the Atlantic Alliance. Polls, like the CNN one released in August, routinely give the former Democratic vice-president an advantage on foreign policy issues even if the latter are not cited as a top priority among respondents’ concerns.
Donald Trump keeps repeating that the United States is “Again respected” in the world under its auspices, but the latest Pew Research Center barometer released on Tuesday highlights another reality: that of a brutal degradation of the image of the United States in the world. This survey was carried out from June to August in 13 countries: Canada, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan and South Korea.
Recorded from the arrival of Donald Trump to the presidency, it was accentuated in 2020 due to management judged “ bad Of the Covid-19 epidemic by 83% of those questioned. Favorable views on the United States returned in France (31%) and Germany (26%) to their lowest water level in March 2003, when the American troops invaded Iraq. The numbers in the United Kingdom (41%), Japan (41%), Australia (33%) and Canada (35%), Washington’s closest allies have never been so low.
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