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President Donald Trump and his team dances with a sword in Saudi Arabia welcome ceremony shows old guys dancing together in completely different cultural environment.  Even as quest Donald looks very upset during the sword dance in fact. Obama looked much better in his foreign visits. See good quality video here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4525766/Trump-takes-traditional-Saudi-sword-dance.html.

I would dance like that too if i were robbing the biggest Oil producing country there is.

1- USA prints USD out of thin air.
2- USA buys Oil from SA with those papers.
3- USA sells guns to SA and collect its papers back.
4- USA creates more jobs at gun business.
5- SA sells more Oil to get more USA papers.

Everyone is happy. Trump is a brilliant businessman.

You assert #1 leads to #2, but it doesn't. It's not the US government that buys the oil but various companies. Those companies don't have the ability to print the dollars. (It could be that in a few cases, of course, the US government does directly buy oil or a by product. For example Trump's plane is over there now. The payment for refueling it was a US government purchase directly.

The oil market is "fungible," which means that anyone can buy from anyone. Regardless of established long term trading partners, if someone offers a higher prices, he'll get the business.

You can only trick people who were born yesterday with those lies. Those "various" oil companies are owned directly by the US government. In this situation this puppet company is "Exxon Mobil"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil

You can't seperate the big companies from the US government because, the US government itself is a big company being run by a businessman.

One thing is clear. Despite his anti-Muslim rhetoric, Trump regards Saudi Arabia as the most important ally in the middle east. That means that he will not give permission for the intelligence agencies, to probe the alleged Saudi links during the September 11 attacks. The Saudi royals will be much relieved now, with how the things turned out.

You are truly pitiful. Does Obamas approach look good in the world of cucks? Getting barely noticed by feudal overlords?

Comparison of the two:

http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/politics/2017/05/20/trump-shakes-hands-with-saudi-leader-doesnt-bow-as-obama-appeared-to-do/_jcr_content/par/featured_image/media-0.img.jpg/876/493/1495294316263.jpg?ve=1&tl=1

In fact the only reason for the sword dance was that, unlike Obama, Trump is respected and even feared by Saudis. As he should as United States president in feudal theocracy. Who is the alpha here, please feel welcome to tell me. I dare you.

https://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_960w/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/20/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/AFP_ON8O2.jpg

First lady comparison:

http://16004-presscdn-0-50.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/melania-trump-michelle-Obama-575x321.png

I have a feeling that Donald Trump's foreign policy will be much more successful than that of his predecessor.

I think there should not be comparison between the two (trump and Obama) About their visit to Saudi Arabian. Trump have a natural strong face and his outlook is not as flexible as Obama but I. Think he look happy and a bit feel at home.

Ya god emperor trump just sold the sauds weapons for 460 billion $ for the next 10 years.
Half a trillion ladies.
Islamic extremism now has enough weapons to wage war through the whole century.

Good job mr trump. You showed the muslim pigs where they stand.

It wouldnt wonder me if ISIS will be using 5th generation jets soon :D

You get an additional cookie as well. Whenever I hear God Emperor, I think of Dune, and I think of Trump floating with glowing eyes, and I die ;)

For all the travel bans, for all the anti IS rhetoric, we make a fucking arms deal with the same regime we know for a fact is supporting them? Practical, non hilarious reasons aside (Trump obviously has interests in companies that contract with the military. War = more spending = more shareholder profits. I digress), I think Bannon and Trump made a bet to see how many list items they can get off before his approval rating hits zero. Im clearly in a simulation right now, this cant be real. From his cabinet picks, to his policy, its like he does the literal exact opposite of the thing he said earlier. An anti environment EPA head. An anti school education pick. A board of advisors that are all lobbyist is a great way to drain a swamp. And selling military hardware to the Saudis is apparently a winning strategy in the fight on terror. To be fair to both Mr Trump and Mr Obama, many might not be aware that Saudi Arabia took it upon itself to buy a very large stake in our bond markets, years ago. If we don't play nice, they have threatened to crash said market (this direct threat is the reason why the 9/11 commission backed way off of the civil prosecution of the Saudi gov for its role. Republicans were rightly outraged, it wasn't a proud moment for O.).

The right is kinda having trouble reporting on all this shit. The ultra conservatives aren't too keen on radical Islam, Trump kissing Saudi ass isn't sitting too well in conservative palates. The spin is to point out the differences in the interactions between O and T's interactions with SA. Ann Coulter even went as far as to call Trump an 'alpha male', pointing out his apparently warmer welcome by SA.

 ;)

I have to make an aside. Please understand how hilarious comparisons of the vitality of Obama and Trump are. Trump is like, fucking ancient. He subsists off of Diet Coke, red meat, and ice cream. Obama was healthy to the point of comedy, those soccer mom special jeans he wore to that ball game should have been burned with fire, but provided a hilarious talking point.

Might be something to being a beta male ;) we didn't sell 500b weapons to our aggressors, after they threatened to ruin our economy.

I appreciate the sword gesture, it's like, Donald Trump could have killed them all but he was merciful and spared them his sword. Or they could have killed trump. lol

Was that a real blade or a blunted blade?

You're not going to find me disagreeing, but let's note that Hitlery was far closer to the Saudis than Trump could ever be (And had her rug muching lesbian Huma FROM SAUDI in her bed to advise her).

The topic title brought me here and the video made me laugh I guess the biggest benefit of the media's Trump radar is that even when he is abroad they have to show all the cultural traditions while covering him. I did like how the other Rex and Wilbur were going this is awkward we are holding swords and dancing.
The fun part of it is that he is getting the Royal Treatment Obama never got while still complaining about the threats of ISIS and radical Islam, as for weapon sales that is the American business just who they sell it to can cause issues.

What does this mean? I don't see a single positive moment from its international ties. The fact that he has agreed to sell to the Arabs weapons is not positive. Yes, it will bring income to the companies producing weapons and possibly create some jobs, but you know against whom these weapons will be directed in the future. It may be a Pyrrhic victory.

You are butt-hurt because your country (Germany) lost out. The revenues will go towards the American treasury, and the Germans can only sit back and watch. Perhaps you should try selling your weapons to Iran or North Korea?

I'd probably be nervous if I have Saudi Arabia for an "ally".  ;D

There's no doubt Saudi Arabia an US have a very profitable relationship. The US can get oil if they decide they don't want to frack and the Sauds get top-quality arms to hold on to power.

There might be some other factors as well though. It was particularly telling that Saudi Arabia was not included in Trump's proposed Muslim ban despite it exporting Wahabbism.

First of all, America is not a major victim of the terrorist attacks. During the past 10 years, most of the terrorist incidents have occurred in Europe, Asia and Africa. And the US-Saudi relationship is mutually beneficial for both. The Americans desperately need the petrodollars from Saudi Arabia and the other GCC nations. 

You forget the terrorism part where whole Europe burns while accusing Muslims.

But you're right though, the real responsible for all that shit are easy to find.
They talk loud and they're just on the other side of the Ocean.
Dying in their own fat and oil.

In fact several weapon selling contracts in worth of billions of € from germany to saudi arabia was cancled because of public pressure.
In germany weapon sellings are usually under more scrutiny then in the US.

And in relation to the US we dont want to sell weapons to the nr. 1 ISIS supporters.

Edit

Actually germany cancled or postponed every weapon export to the sauds since 2015.

The Americans have armed the Taliban and this led to the fact that now is a weapon of war against the Americans. It seems to me that the same thing will happen with these deals. That may interfere with the Saudi radicals to sell these weapons to Libya or Pakistan. Yes, actually anywhere.

This good picture shows the president's perspective on each visit. Many striking differences I understand what is in the head of donald rtrump

This. Eventually, conflicts end. When they do, the war infrastructure in place starts to get missing, especially in the losing territory. A great many grenades and RPGs made it back in golf club bags and luggage after the Korean conflict; Russian drug dealers are the current proud owners of Soviet tanks and  military surplus that would make our SWAT teams blush. When the dust settles, these weapons will trickle down to the next regime with sympathies from the existing regime. Ultimately, just by placing military hardware that can be misappropriated in a region with hostile actors, we have harmed our future operational security.

To above poster with the picture, I think I see what you did there. You get a cookie ;)

Aye, I also seem them that way. Which is why it's infuriating that past administration has tried to protect them from prosecution in their possible involvement in 9/11.

On the other hand, since Saudi Arabia is a government rather than a terrorist group in hiding, you can actually track where they are using the arms being given to them. Most of the support they'll give to terrorist groups would be financial, for example funding the construction of mosques that would later be used as recruitment centers and donations to Islamic "non-profit organizations".

They have indulged in financial as well as weapons support for the terrorist groups. For example, many of the US-made BGM-71 TOW missiles which the Saudis provided to the FSA, ended up with the ISIS.

Oh, first time I heard this so I looked them up. No wonder people are claiming that America was funding ISIS... those are American guns they were using.

Back to Arabia, you said they provided weapons to the FSA. Do you think the Syrian civil war is more a proxy war between the Arabs and Persians? These two hate each other so it wouldn't be surprising.

If I remember correctly, Iran is one of Assad's backers, aside from Russia. Maybe the Saudis want to get rid of him because he's a Shia...

The Syrian conflict is more complex than a simple Sunni vs Shia fight. The rebels are almost entirely Sunni, but the fact remains that a lot of them also support Assad. Opinion polls have found that a simple majority of the Sunnis support Assad, while he draws almost complete support from the minority groups (Shiites, Christians, Yazidis.etc).

Within Syria, it seem it really is that complex. After all, some even point out the civil war possibly have not started if parts of the country didn't experience drought. There is some economic reasons for it. With outside players though, it seem it can be much simpler. Iran likely support Assad to ensure the Shia minority there don't get persecuted like elsewhere. The Saudi's are probably just doing it to expand their sphere of influence. We can only guess what Russia and America are up to.

Donald Trump is a businessman and he is always serious thus he is still adjusting himself to this kinds of affairs. Businessman finds entertainment like this boring events since he always wanted to get into business. While watching those shows probably he is already dreaming and planning on how to make America great again. Businessmen always thinks of business and less on pleasure. Trump is just bored.

I guess the Americans are there just for their allies (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait.etc). They are supporting the YPG (Kurds) as well. On the other hand, the Russians want to make sure that Assad remains in power. They have a naval facility in the city of Tartus, which is strategically very important.

Ah, just like in Crimea eh? It seems to always be the case for Russia. Sucks when your access to the sea is mostly through allies, an enclave and some Arctic ports.

As for America supporting the Kurds, wouldn't that piss of the Turks, who also have a separatist Kurdish group?

That's the reason why the previous administration (Obama regime) refrained from supplying APCs and advanced weaponry to the Kurds. But after the failed coup, the relations between Erdogan and the Americans have soured. That may be the reason why Trump is now willing to provide advanced weapons to the Kurds.

It's easy to see why. Erdogan is starting to show the signs of a typical autocrat. He has also been less subtle about his friendship with Putin.

Provide weapons to Kurds? Ah, the typical way Uncle Sam says "fcuk you!". ;D I wonder if they're also behind the recent "terrorist attack" in the Philippines, just as Duterte was in Russia. (Consequently, he have to rush home and didn't have enough time to personally meet Putin.) 

The Kurds also have territories in Iraq and Syria right? I wonder what benefits America would get from having all those areas become a Kurdish country. Do they, um, have oil?  ;)

Absolutely agree. Exxon Mobil is the world's largest publicly traded international oil and gas company, just check the latest stock market report on https://www.newsquantified.com/stock-quote/XOM , it is prosperous and very successful. Moreover, Exxon Mobil is closely related to US goverment.