Republican presidential candidate front-runner Donald Trump has said he would consider stopping US oil purchases from Saudi Arabia unless the Saudi government provide troops to fight Islamic State (IS).
According to reports in the New York Times, the business tycoon made the comments in a lengthy foreign policy published by the newspaper on Saturday and came in response to a question about whether, if elected president, he would halt oil purchases from US allies unless they provided on-the-ground forces against Islamic State.
He said:”The answer is, probably yes. And yet, without us, Saudi Arabia wouldn’t exist for very long.
“… We’re not being reimbursed for the kind of tremendous service that we’re performing by protecting various countries. Now Saudi Arabia’s one of them.”
Trump also told the NYT he was willing to rethink traditional US alliances if he was to become president.
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