Susan Glasser

Oh, sorry.

That was just somebody honking.

Well, I think the F-35 sales and that greeting, I'm sure a lot of people saw Trump coming to the portico of the White House to greet MBS in a fanfare-laden ceremony, not only rolling out the red carpet, according in the full honors, essentially, of a state visit, even though he's not the head of state.

His father, technically speaking, still is.

And this flyover of the F-35s, which the U.S.

government, which Trump has agreed to sell, that's something that previous senators

administrations had, including Trump's own previous administration, have resisted.

Saudi Arabia already has a military cooperation channel with China.

And one of the concerns is, you know, possible proliferation of sensitive defense technology that the U.S.

has.

And

You know, this goes back to what we mentioned with Trump and Israel and Gaza, which is that Donald Trump wants to be seen as a dealmaker, seen as a peacemaker, especially in the Middle East, but is often really not a very strong negotiator, not a strong dealmaker.

So

He appeared to give Saudi Arabia a lot of what it had wanted in terms of security promises from the United States and defense cooperation without the part that the U.S.

had been demanding in exchange, which was please join

the Abraham Accords and normalize your relationship with Israel.

And Donald Trump just threw that conditionality out the window, right?

And sort of said like, oh, well, we didn't get there on this one.

So here, I'll just give you all this stuff anyways.

And