President Donald Trump’s administration will face challenges in the Middle East, but also opportunities due to the changed environment, former UN envoy for aid to Gaza David Satterfield says.
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00:00David, until May of last year, you were President Biden's U.S. envoy for humanitarian assistance
00:06for Gaza.
00:07You're also the U.S. ambassador to Lebanon and Turkey, and I'd just like to sort of pick
00:12up on what Donald Trump was saying in his inaugural address and just ask you what stood
00:17out for you in terms of what a return for Donald Trump means for his allies.
00:23Well, the administration will face a number of challenges in the Middle East and beyond,
00:29but it also will face very significant opportunities, and I think that's the critical theme here.
00:35The picture in the Middle East is quite a different one than would have presented even
00:39a few short months ago.
00:42You have a very diminished Iran.
00:45You have Hezbollah, its leadership decapitated, its military strength diminished.
00:52That was compelled by circumstances to agree to the ceasefire a short while ago.
00:58You have the fall, after 50-plus years, of the brutal, kleptocratic Assad regime.
01:05All of this, all of this provides opportunities for the incoming administration.