US President Donald Trump with Abu Dhabi's crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the White House in 2017. Photo: AFP/Pool
David P. Goldman, Asia Times: ‘America First’ pays off in the Middle East
The fact that America no longer needs to play policeman in the Persian Gulf compels Gulf states to act responsibly as a matter of self-preservation.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan (“MbZ”) of the United Arab Emirates, the “most powerful Arab ruler” according to the New York Times’ David Kirkpatrick, is also the Arab world’s most sagacious political leader. With the UAE’s current account surplus of US$109 billion in 2019 (vs. Saudi Arabia’s $47 billion), he wields enormous economic heft.
MbZ has mentored Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, 20 years his junior, since the Saudi leader’s youth. His agreement to normalize relations with the State of Israel, almost certainly the first of several Arab states to make such agreements, vitiates the Islamist agendas of Iran and Turkey and improves the prospects for a long-term solution to the Syrian civil war.
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Kay: There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they do not know about it!”
https://www.moviequotes.com/quote/kay-we-do-not-discharge-our-weapons-in-view-of/
Of course these people are angry, they are the real life equivalent of the fictional Men in Black (organization).
They had purpose saving the world and patting each other o the back afterwards. Now that Trump is doing it better, not as many of them will be needed or as important.
Sociologists tell us that organizations like organisms do not like to die. Even if, there is no longer a reason for the organization to exist.
Trump is doing it better than them. they are obsolete or at leader downsize 10% or more.
"The fact that America no longer needs to play policeman in the Persian Gulf compels Gulf states to act responsibly as a matter of self-preservation.' - Goldman
Those 73 Turkeys are mad, but they have no skin in the game. They are not going to end up in Walter Reed or in Arlington. The way the soldiers see it, they might have to spill their blood, but their blood should not be spilt just because some muckety muck can do it on a whim or for something unimportant.
If Trump wins re-election and this takes hold in the Middle East Trump will be seen as brilliant despite how many times liberals write, rewrite and trash Wiki or falsify biographies.
I would appreciate, if the imposter does not try to piggy back on the above comments.
Agreed anon. Sour grapes syndrome, I suspect. Rigid. Ossified mindsets.
As oil becomes a "dinosaur" - the rest of the world won't have to dance to the tune of the Arabs. Two thumbs up!
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