{"id":852062,"date":"2025-05-29T19:12:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T00:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/trumps-photo-with-syrian-president-al-sharaa-symbolizes-new-world-order\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T19:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T00:12:23","slug":"trumps-photo-with-syrian-president-al-sharaa-symbolizes-new-world-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/trumps-photo-with-syrian-president-al-sharaa-symbolizes-new-world-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s photo with Syrian President al-Sharaa symbolizes new world order"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<nav>\n<\/nav>\n<section>\n<section>\n<section>\n<section>\n<section>\n<h2>The meeting with Sharaa symbolizes how the US is getting out of the business of \u201cgiving lectures\u201d to others. <\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<section>By <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/author\/seth-j-frantzman\" target=\"_blank\"> SETH J. FRANTZMAN<\/a><\/span><\/section>\n<section>\n<section>\n<section>\n                    <time datetime=\"2025-05-14T15:25:17+03:00\"><br \/>\n                        MAY 14, 2025 15:25<br \/>\n                    <\/time><br \/>\n                <\/section>\n<section><b>Updated:<\/b> MAY 14, 2025 18:14<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<section data-share-url=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-853930\" data-share-title=\"Trump's photo with Syrian President al-Sharaa symbolizes new world order - analysis\">\n<nav>\n<ul>\n<li data-share-url=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-853930#853930\" data-share-title=\"Trump's photo with Syrian President al-Sharaa symbolizes new world order - analysis\">\n<\/li>\n<li data-share-url=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-853930#853930\" data-share-title=\"Trump's photo with Syrian President al-Sharaa symbolizes new world order - analysis\">\n<\/li>\n<li data-share-url=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-853930#853930\" data-share-title=\"Trump's photo with Syrian President al-Sharaa symbolizes new world order - analysis\">\n<\/li>\n<li data-share-url=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-853930#853930\" data-share-title=\"Trump's photo with Syrian President al-Sharaa symbolizes new world order - analysis\">\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.jpost.com\/image\/upload\/q_auto\/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_537,w_822\/663267\" width=\"290\" height=\"260\" alt=\" Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa meets with U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in this handout released on May 14, 2025. Saudi Press Agency\/Handout via REUTERS. (photo credit: Getty Images\/Ali Haj Suleiman, Anna Moneymaker, Win McNamee, MOHAMED HUSSAIN YOUNIS)\" title=\" Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa meets with U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in this handout released on May 14, 2025. Saudi Press Agency\/Handout via REUTERS.\"><figcaption>\n<section>\n<section> Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa meets with U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in this handout released on May 14, 2025. Saudi Press Agency\/Handout via REUTERS.<\/section>\n<section>(photo credit: Getty Images\/Ali Haj Suleiman, Anna Moneymaker, Win McNamee, MOHAMED HUSSAIN YOUNIS)<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<section itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"startBannerSticky\">\n<p>US President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/breaking-news\/article-853885\">met the new Syrian leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa<\/a>. The photos from this historic moment that surfaced on Wednesday symbolized that a new world order is emerging.<\/p>\n<p>This is a major event in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Syrians celebrated throughout the night between Tuesday and Wednesday due to Trump saying that he would work to end sanctions on Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Many people have commented on the rapid turn of events. Sharaa led his Hay\u2019at Tahrir al-Sham forces into Damascus on December 8, 2024. It has only been five months since then, and Sharaa is already in Saudi Arabia meeting the US president.<\/p>\n<p>When he first rolled into Damascus, he had a $10 million bounty on his head from the US owing to accusations of his involvement in terrorism in the past.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption> US President Donald Trump meets with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in this handout released on May 14, 2025. (credit: SAUDI PRESS AGENCY\/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The US was quick to note in December 2024 that it would cancel the bounty. However, it remained to be seen if Washington would move quickly to establish ties.<\/p>\n<p>European countries moved faster, and Sharaa visited France first, before meeting the American president.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump meeting is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-853719\">symbolic on many levels<\/a>. It brings to a close a chapter of US president George W. Bush\u2019s Global War on Terror. That war began after 9\/11 and saw US troops go to Afghanistan and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Sharaa went to Iraq to oppose the US occupation there around 2005. He was held at a US-run detention center called Camp Bucca, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, Sharaa was freed in 2011 and returned to Syria to fight against Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime. He had connections to al-Qaeda in Iraq, and his group in Syria was seen as the Syrian branch of this terrorist network.<\/p>\n<p>Sharaa moved to distance himself from al-Qaeda over the years, but one cannot ignore how fascinating it is that he has come so far and bookended this US role in the region.<\/p>\n<p>HIS RISE is also part of the larger process of the Arab Spring. This uprising began in 2011 and saw several Arab nationalist regimes overthrown.<\/p>\n<p>However, what began as hope became a civil war in many places. People began to think of the Arab Spring as spreading chaos and extremism. ISIS fed off this chaos in Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Trump-Sharaa meeting seen as a symbol marking the end of the war against ISIS<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Today, the new Syria is trying to end the ISIS war completely. Sharaa has met with the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces\u2019 leader, Mazloum Abdi, and it looks like eastern Syria will integrate with Damascus.<\/p>\n<p>The US can then leave Syria. America was involved in the anti-ISIS war in Syria, and the SDF was one of the successful ways that the US helped defeat ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it seems as though the ISIS war is over; the Trump-Sharaa meeting is one symbol of how it ended, with the United States returning to the picture.<\/p>\n<p>What this means is that states like Syria are whole again, not broken up into pieces. The state is back. Stability is returning.<\/p>\n<p>The photograph also indicates that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-853830\">Trump is focused on the Middle East<\/a>. His first trip abroad, in both terms, was to Saudi Arabia. Many other US presidents may have chosen traditional Five Eyes allies such as the UK or Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the US is focused on the Middle East and Asia. The whole world is more focused on Asia. For instance, Chinese military technology helped Pakistan against India recently.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan was a former British colony and had been closely linked to the West. Now it works with China.<\/p>\n<p>Iran also collaborates with China. Countries in the Middle East are running to join economic groups such as BRICS and the SCO, which are non-Western economic blocs.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, Trump\u2019s time in Saudi Arabia is part of the shifting global world order. The US is no longer a hegemonic power. This is a multipolar world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/donald-trump\">Trump<\/a> agrees with these changes. Although he wants to make America great at home, his \u201cAmerica first\u201d approach also means the US rejects the notion of \u201cnational building.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The American president skewered past Western efforts in the region. \u201cThe gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called \u2018nation builders,\u2019 \u2018neocons,\u2019 or \u2018liberal nonprofits,\u2019 like those who spent trillions failing to develop Kabul and Baghdad,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead, the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought about by the people of the region themselves&#8230; developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own unique visions, and charting your own destinies,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIn the end, the so-called \u2018nation builders\u2019 wrecked far more nations than they built \u2013 and the interventionists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting with Sharaa, therefore, symbolizes how the US is getting out of the business of \u201clecturing\u201d others.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is embracing a policy where Syria will determine its own future. He will not hold the past against Sharaa and Syria. He is ready for a new world order.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p> Nancie Pepper<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-853930\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting with Sharaa symbolizes how the US is getting out of the business of \u201cgiving lectures\u201d to others. By SETH J. FRANTZMAN MAY 14, 2025 15:25 Updated: MAY 14, 2025 18:14 Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa meets with U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":852063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4216,163],"tags":[6015,5123],"class_list":{"0":"post-852062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-photo","8":"category-trumps","9":"tag-photo","10":"tag-trumps"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}