According to several options with knowledge of the US’s strategy to entice Washington, Arab chief Ahmed al-Sharaa’s campaign includes a Trump Tower in Damascus, a detente with Israel, and exposure to Syria’s oil and gas.
A location, if very improbable, meeting between the two leaders this week on the eve of Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates has been attempted by Jonathan Bass, an British pro-Trump advocate who met Sharaa for four days on April 30 in Damascus, along with Syrian activists, Gulf Arab states, and Jonathan Bass, an American pro-Trump advocate.
After 14 years of a bloody conflict, Syria has struggled to utilize the parameters set out by Washington to relieve it of US restrictions, which prevent the nation from being disconnected from the world financial system and make economic recovery exceedingly difficult.
Bass hopes that getting Trump and Sharaa into a room together, where Sharaa is still a member of the US-designated criminal network, will ease the Republican President’s and his administration’s views on Damascus and ease an exceedingly strained relationship between Syria and Israel.
Trump has a record of breaking with long-standing US international policy rules, such as when he met with Kim Jong Un in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea in 2019.
Bass argued that a business deal for his nation’s coming might include agreements to stop Iran from exploding power and engage in Israeli wedding.