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Something changed in American foreign policy during the 2016 presidential campaign. The shift was not subtle. Longstanding alliances were questioned. Traditional adversaries were embraced. Career diplomats found themselves sidelined. And nobody could quite explain why.
**Author:** Seth Abramson **Estimated Reading Time:** 45 minutes
**What You'll Learn**
How a clandestine alliance of foreign powers worked to influence the 2016 American presidential election and shape U.S. foreign policy during the Trump administration. You will understand the secret meetings, the back-channel communications, the financial entanglements, and the systematic dismantling of traditional diplomacy that defined this extraordinary period.
**Who This Book Is For**
Anyone who wants to understand the hidden forces that reshaped American foreign policy between 2015 and 2020. This book is for readers who sense that the official story is incomplete and want to follow the evidence wherever it leads, through the complex web of relationships connecting Washington, Moscow, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Tel Aviv, and beyond.
Something changed in American foreign policy during the 2016 presidential campaign. The shift was not subtle. Longstanding alliances were questioned. Traditional adversaries were embraced. Career diplomats found themselves sidelined. And nobody could quite explain why. The explanations offered publicly made little sense. Candidate Trump praised Vladimir Putin, suggested NATO was obsolete, and questioned America's commitment to its oldest allies. Once in office, President Trump imposed a blockade on Qatar while embracing Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. He withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal. He attempted to lift sanctions on Russia. He treated the State Department as an obstacle rather than an instrument of policy. To many observers, these decisions appeared chaotic, impulsive, the product of an unconventional president following his instincts. But Seth Abramson saw something different. He saw a pattern. Abramson, a former criminal investigator and attorney, began connecting dots that others had missed. He noticed that key foreign policy decisions consistently benefited a specific group of nations: Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt. He noticed that these nations had something else in common: their leaders had been meeting secretly since late 2015, coordinating their efforts to reshape the Middle East and influence American politics. What Abramson uncovered was not a conspiracy theory in the popular sense. It was something more concrete and more troubling: a conspiracy of evidence. A series of documented meetings, financial transactions, communications, and policy decisions that, when examined together, revealed a coordinated effort by foreign powers to influence the highest levels of American government. The story begins on a yacht in the Red Sea in the fall of 2015. It moves through the 2016 campaign, with its secret meetings and covert communications. It continues into the White House, where personal relationships replaced diplomatic protocols. And it extends into investigations that sought to understand what had happened and why. This book is the product of years of meticulous research. Abramson draws on court documents, investigative journalism, congressional testimony, the…
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Seth Abramson is an author, poet, and academic with a diverse background. He holds degrees from Harvard Law School and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and is pursuing a doctorate in English Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Abramson has published poetry collections and contributed to writing handbooks. His work has appeared in prestigious literary journals, and he has received recognition for his poetry, including the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize. Abramson's writing spans m…
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