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After the turmoil of the Arab spring and the disaster of the Syrian conflict, Trump’s speech on Sunday marked a deliberate bookend to his predecessor’s values-led approach. It was delivered in an ostentatious hall to absolute rulers, hosted by a regime with an appalling human rights record and it promised that the US would no longer question the way they went about running their countries.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/21/trumps-tough-talk-on-extremism-weakened-by-backing-for-autocracies