President-elect Donald Trump has “big opportunities to make some climactic changes in the Middle East,” and he sees the role the U.S. plays in world affairs more clearly than he did during his first term, former NATO Supreme Commander Gen. Wesley Clark said.

“I think now he recognizes [and] he knows what power is,” Clark told CNN on Monday  while talking about the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. “He wants to be a global player. You can’t be a global player by withdrawing from everything.”

Over the weekend, Trump urged the U.S. not to intervene in the Syrian conflict, calling the country a “mess,” but not “our friend” and called on the U.S. to allow the situation to play out as it is “not our fight.”

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