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ABU DHABI // Donald Trump’s acceptance speech as the Republican US presidential nominee offered a contradictory vision of America’s role in the world and did little to address questions by Washington’s traditional allies about his commitment to the global security order it has led for decades. Mr Trump portrayed a US under attack by terrorists, beset by immigrant criminals and forced to carry an unfair burden abroad, while calling for an isolationist foreign policy and a more muscular strategy with regional allies to destroy ISIL.

He devoted a large part of his speech to the Middle East, blaming everything from the rise of ISIL to the upheaval in post-Arab Spring countries on the decisions made by his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, when she was secretary of state.

While some of his criticisms of Middle East policy under president Barack Obama echo the sentiments of some Gulf leaders, any points Mr Trump may have scored will have been undermined by the underlying message of retreat. Trump,

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With no signs of a shift towards the political centre, his lack of detail, unpredictability, continuing xenophobia and attacks on Muslims, will also colour leaders’ views of his candidacy, and fears that he is fuelling the extremist narrative. “Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo,” Mr Trump told the Republican convention on Thursday. “As long as we are led by politicians who will not put America first, then we can be assured that other nations will not treat America with respect – the respect that we deserve. The American people will come first once again.”

The speech followed an interview with The New York Times on Wednesday in which Mr Trump said that under his administration the US would go to the aid of Baltic Nato member states if they were invaded by Russia only “if they fulfil their obligations to us”. The remark fuelled outrage in Europe, and seemed to indicate that Nato’s mutual defence guarantee may be ignored by a president Trump. Beyond Nato, the message to Asia, and to US partners in the Gulf with no alliance treaty with the US, is that they will be less secure and will have to rely less on Washington. The position will exacerbate concerns by GCC leaders who already feel the US is more ambiguous than before about its commitments to them. But even Mr Obama has said an invasion of a GCC country would be a US red line, and Mr Trump’s insinuation that such policies may have to be renegotiated will be deeply troubling.

Mr Trump also said he would do away with free trade agreements with blocs of countries. GCC countries already prefer to engage bilaterally with the US, their most important ally and a major trade partner, and do not have multilateral trade deals with Washington, but an isolationist trade policy is unlikely to be viewed positively.

On fighting ISIL, Mr Trump said: “We must work with all our allies who share our goal of destroying ISIS and stamping out Islamic terrorism and doing it now, doing it quickly.”