In this week’s episode of the Mideast News Hour I was joined by Dr. Victoria Coates, the Distinguished Fellow for Strategic Studies at the American Foreign Policy Council. During the Trump administration, Victoria served as Deputy National Security Advisor and as the Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Energy and the Secretary’s Representative to the Middle East and North Africa.
Victoria and I discussed the state of the Biden Administration’s Middle East policies and how those policies are endangering the U.S.’s regional allies as well as U.S. national security.
Victoria served as Senator Ted Cruz’s senior foreign policy advisor before joining the Trump administration and she laid out how a Republican majority in Congress could impact the administration’s moves towards the Middle East, beginning in 2023.
We ended with a discussion of the state of the Palestinian conflict with Israel, and how Republicans may look at the conflict and the issue of Palestinian statehood going forward into the midterm elections and the 2024 presidential race.
It was an essential conversation with a woman who played an enormous role in crafting Trump’s Middle East policies which transformed the region for the better.
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