The implications of the US elections for the Arab world

Posted by Bilal Bou Ali in Al-Khabeer on 02-11-2020

It seems that the whole world is in a state of anticipation as to what will happen to the American elections which will take place tomorrow, Tuesday. For its part, the Arab world is watching this event with great interest, following everything that is new. The results of opinion polls conducted by the British YouGov Foundation revealed that the majority of Arabs are in favor of the victory of the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden. But this majority believes at the same time that the two candidates are led by the same policy and that there is no differentiation between them. But Biden’s balance remains preponderant at the Arab level, and perhaps the reason is mainly myself, because what the Arabs have seen from the current President of the United States of America does not go beyond- beyond being continuous violations and encroachments on Arab countries, and no one can deny it. American foreign policy has become very hostile and cynical since Trump came to power …
As for the American level, the Democrat “Joe Biden” is ahead of the current president “Donald Trump” and this progression is relatively constant, but the race remains still inconclusive so far, because the American states know a great disparity, like the ‘showed the results of recent opinion polls. She strongly supports the current president, and some of them support the new presidential candidate.
Will the change of the current president affect US foreign policy towards the Arab world?
Most opinions are that the approach of the United States of America has not changed in its relations with the Arab countries and that the American policy towards the Arab world remains the same.
Returning to the debates that took place between Biden and Trump, we will see that most of the topics that have been raised concern American internal affairs, no Arab country being mentioned, not even the Israeli-Palestinian problem mentioned. So it looks like the world will live as Trump chose whether or not he stays in power.
Ultimately, what matters to us as Arabs are the directions of the new US administration, towards conflicts and violations of our countries’ sovereignty in the Arab world, as we have become vulnerable to de many external interventions, which seek to control our decisions in order to run the helm of these countries as they wish to interfere.
Biden and Trump remain the representatives of brutal capitalism, which seeks to monopolize power and leadership around the world, so that the fate of the Arab world remains unknown, but reason says that a superpower like America will not be in its interest to let the Arab countries develop, because in this way it will become a strong competitor and a competitor of America itself.

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