The victory of Donald Trump in the presidential elections in the United States and his return to power agitate everyone. And there are reactions for all tastes that go from the joy of Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel, to caution in China to almost total indifference in Iran. Meanwhile, Türkiye believes that the magnate’s victory is a “good opportunity” to reduce tensions in both Ukraine and the Middle East. For now, we will have to wait until January, but International actors are already preparing for the Trump 2.0 era.
It is quite clear that Trump will align himself with Israel in its war against Hamas, and that harms the situation in Palestine. This is what a Netanyahu who is very happy with the change in the US takes for granted, even though Biden has also been at his side since the beginning of the conflict. “His historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a powerful new commitment with the great alliance between Israel and the United States,” said the Israeli prime minister, who was one of the first to react to the election result.
It is, for Netanyahu, “the greatest comeback in history.” A return that has also had a reaction from Hamas, which asks Trump to stop being “blind” in his support for Israel. “Our position on the new US Administration depends on its positions and behavior in practice towards the Palestinian people, their legitimate rights and their just cause“, the terrorist organization said in a statement. They also want “real work to end the war of extermination and aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.”
There is not that effusiveness, much less on the part of Beijing, which even expects trade clashes with the United States, especially taking into account the tensions that already existed in the magnate’s previous mandate. The Asian giant, for now, prefers “not to make hypotheses” about the future relationship with Washington and assures that he “respects” the results of the polls. The spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Mao Ning, assumes that these contacts “are at a very low point” and hopes that the new stage will “decrease.” mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and cooperation that offers advantages for both parties.” There have been no mentions so far of a trade war, although the risk of one seems quite real according to experts.
Iran behaves as if nothing had happened. The Asian power says there is “no concern” with Trump’s returnwith whom nuclear tensions increased with the departure of the United States from the nuclear agreement during his first term. There the mediation was by the EU, but the talks may not be resumed now. “It does not matter who becomes president in the United States, since our plans have already been adopted,” the spokesperson for the Iranian Executive, Fatemé Mohajerani, told the press.
Likewise, in the context of the conflict in the Middle East, precisely the Iranian Revolutionary Guard issues a warning. “We do not consider a preemptive attack by the United States unlikely. and the Zionist regime to prevent Iran from carrying out its response operation against Israel,” warned Deputy Commander Ali Fadavi. “We have enough weapons,” he concluded. This possibility, however, does not seem close: “We have not wasted time to when working in this field. “The geography of the Zionist regime is small and we have an archive with important and influential targets.”
“Having taking into account the history of sanctions over the last four decades“Iran has faced them and is not worried about Trump’s re-election, since it does not make a difference with the other person,” in reference to Joe Biden. In addition, the power says it is “prepared to face” new coercive measures if Washington decides. increase crashes.
Türkiye For its part, it enters a phase of certain optimism about the role of the United States in the world. Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Trump “a friend” and hopes it will help “end wars” through a “constructive” role in the current international context. This statement is relevant insofar as the Ottoman country is at the same time a member of NATO, a key actor in the Middle East and has tried to act as a mediator, without effect, in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.