Jobkins Centre for Strategic Studies: US policy is turning defensive
Ammon News - General Manager of Jobkins Centre for Strategic Studies, expert, strategic and economic analyst engineer Mohannad Abbas Haddadin, said that in a precedent for the US government for a long time, President Trump ordered to reduce the US defense budget by 50 billion dollars annually, to spend on priority programs in his plan, where the defense budget reached 850 billion dollars and will become 560 billion dollars in five years, while maintaining the same budgets for about 17 items, the most important of which are the defense of the border with Mexico, the development of nuclear deterrent missile force and some global staging points.
These indicators will keep the world away from geopolitical tensions and the Cold War, especially since Trump has opened channels of rapprochement with Russia as he seeks to end the Russian-Ukrainian war, where he also discussed with Russian President Putin a plan to reduce the nuclear arsenal between the two countries.
President Trump believes in trade deals that are in the interest of the US economy, and after assuming the presidency, he worked on holding the joints that lead to conflicts in the world, except for the Middle East problem, he knows very well that the Middle East Joint lies in the establishment of the Palestinian state inside Palestine, because the region will not calm down without this solution, and not letting Israel general.
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