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Trump: ‘Immensely wealthy’ worldwide locations have to pay for US safety 0

Trump: ‘Immensely wealthy’ worldwide locations have to pay for US safety

US President Donald Trump has said that some « immensely wealthy » countries in the Middle East have to pay for American protection and deploy their own troops in Syria. Speaking at a news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, Trump said these countries « wouldn’t last a week » without US support. « Countries that are in…

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Is US President Trump ‘milking Gulf countries’ ?

US President Donald Trump is « milking Gulf countries » and exploiting tensions in the Middle East to bolster its arms sales. That’s according to Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara, who was commenting shortly after the US leader told Saudi Arabia it needed to pay up if it wanted the US to continue its fight…