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Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policies Editor-in-Chief. This is-chief. This is FP Live.

Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump visited three countries in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia,

the UAE, and Qatar. Excluding a quick visit to the Vatican for Pope Francis's funeral,

this was the first foreign

trip of his second term, a signal of his priorities.

Many of the headlines from the trip focused on the 747 jetliner that Qatar offered

for use as Air Force One, or deals with Gulf states supposedly worth more than a trillion dollars,

we'll have to wait and see how much of that pans out. But in terms of substance,

it might be more notable that Trump gave a speech in Riyadh, stating that there would be,

quote, no more lectures from America denouncing decades of Western intervention in the region. Trump also announced

the lifting of sanctions on Syria and promoted the idea of a new nuclear deal with Iran, and he announced

a spate of big AI and chip deals with some key golf players. All of this raises several questions worth exploring, such as,

is the Trump administration realigning American priorities in the region? Why are these Gulf

monarchies rising in importance as much as they are? And while we know of Washington's interest

...