It is stunning that President Trump seemed ready to enrich uranium, and promote Nuclear Development without any controls, for Saudi Arabia.
Yes, it is true that Saudi Arabia is a so called “friend” in the Middle East, certainly in opposition to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
But one must realize that Mohammed bin Salman, the real leader of that nation as Crown Prince, is an autocrat of massive proportions and was involved in ordering the horrendous murder of Saudi journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi, who worked at the Washington Post, in 2018.
One must never forget that it was Saudi nationals who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and one cannot be sure that elements in the Saudi government were not involved in the planning and execution of that horrendous series of events on that day.
We need to be friendly with Saudi Arabia, but not overly trusting, and apparently, Donald Trump has been told that it will not be acceptable as is, so now he has added the need for Saudi Arabia to formally recognize the state of Israel, and sign the Abraham Accords.
There are doubts that the Saudi government would agree to that, and of course, Israel itself is in alarm mode that Trump would even consider allowing US technical expertise to be given to Saudi Arabia, without strong controls.
And Saudi Arabia wants Israel to agree to a “Two State Solution” before any idea of them signing the Abraham Accords, which Israel is vehemently against considering after the war that has killed over 70,000 Palestinians since the attack on Israel, and loss of 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023.
It is clear it is more of a profit and business deal for Jared Kushner and the entire Trump family than anything else, but undermines American national security, as well as Israel.
One can be a critic of Benjamin Netanyahu and his monstrous war on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and still realize that giving Saudi Arabia the capacity for a future nuclear weapon, if attitudes change in that Middle Eastern nation, is a gamble not worth pursuing.
Additionally, the fact that Trump can announce an agreement, and then add changes less than 24 hours later, is a sign of his continuing mental decline, alarming everyone with any sense of the danger of having an 80 year old clearly in dementia, having control of the nuclear codes, and his constant threats to unleash massive attacks on Iranian civilians that would be perceived as war crimes.