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>Frustration with Trump grows among U.S.’s Persian Gulf allies, officials say

>Gulf leaders worry the president is unable to manage the diplomacy necessary to secure peace with Iran, according to Arab and Western officials.

>Trump in recent weeks has repeatedly issued threats against Iran, only to withdraw them, citing progress in talks. After months of conflict, and continuing missile and drone strikes by Iran and its proxies, three officials and a former U.S. diplomat told The Washington Post, the governments of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain are now united in their aggravation with the administration. Some have begun to debate the utility of continuing to host large U.S. military installations on their territory.

>“Trump started this war,” one Gulf official said, “and we are paying the price.” Like others in this article, he spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive subject. Anger with the United States, the official said, was at its highest point since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran in February.

>There has been frustration from the get-go,” said Firas Maksad, director for the Middle East and North Africa practice at the Eurasia Group. U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf, he said, feel they were “unnecessarily entangled” in a war that Trump is now struggling to resolve

>Maksad, who has extensive contacts within Gulf leadership, said Trump’s Iran policy is often described in the region as “erratic” and “unpredictable.”

>Anna Jacobs, a fellow with the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, said there has been “diminished trust” of the U.S. since the start of the war. U.S. allies think the country’s “conduct in the region is making them less safe, not more safe,” she said.

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didn't read anything
suffice to say, you lost tranny
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not my problem
Death to America
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>One Western diplomat in the region said these changes don’t amount to a significant shift in sentiment toward the United States.

>Even before the war with Iran, he said, U.S. forces in the region were not “enthusiastically” welcomed. “It was more something that was a necessary evil,” the diplomat said. “Now, the necessity of it is being put in question.”

>Attitudes toward the war among Gulf leaders have shifted. Oman has opposed the conflict from the outset, but Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain have at times backed it.

>Emirati forces have conducted “numerous” strikes on Iranian territory in recent months, according to the Western diplomat, and Saudi forces have struck back at Iranian-backed groups attacking from Iraq.

>“At the beginning of the war, they were — I don’t want to say, supportive — but honestly, they were not totally against the war,” the senior European official said. The thinking in Abu Dhabi and Riyadh, he said, was that a quick, definitive victory could prove beneficial.

>That began to shift in the lead-up to the first round of talks between Iran and the United States in April, the official said, when it became clear that not only would the Iranian regime not fall, but it would not reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

>In the months since, Trump’s inconsistency has alarmed the Gulf, said Bader Al-Saif, an assistant professor of history at Kuwait University.

>“Even before all this back and forth with Trump, there was no clear strategy,” said Al-Saif, a fellow of the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. He cited the Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran in June.

>“The MOU was a joke,” he said. The agreement didn’t address the Gulf states’ top concerns, including Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal or Tehran’s support for proxy forces.

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>>540828092
What does Trump have against the Gnu C Compiler?
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>>540828092
>another bunch of vavue statements attributed to alleged parties with secondhand involvement.
shoot journalists
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That migger "frog" has been seething in every thread related to the orange bitch or jewsa today.
Holy kek
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>>540828092
All according to Israel's plan to replace the US as the hegemon in the area.
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>>540828145
You won tranny
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>>540828092
>Trump started this war
Wrong. I knew (((they))) would work hard to make people think it's Trump's war though.
Netanyahu started that war and Trump is just being Netanyahu's bitch. A golem obeying its jewish master
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>>540828092
I voted for this. You lost, Arab trannies.
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>>540829883
>t.unimportant country flag sucking off Iran in every thread.
keep spouting that astroturfed buzzword mr. tourist
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>>540830510
Too bad bathhouse Marco already admitted the truth at the outset on camera
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>>540828092
Trump has the touch of shit
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>>540828092
Trump is perfect for America's enemies
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>>540830217
Israel is an irrelevant tiny shithole, all those arabs will answer to Iran post-war as the new regional hegemon
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>>540828318
It's not kosher, it was made by a white guy.
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>>540828092
Arab leaders are the dumbest on the planet next to Africans
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>>540828318
He hates that it's libre and not open-source.
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>>540828184
Those greedy Jews and those crypto-Jew dune coons planned this for decades, and now they're crying that they can't defeat Iran?
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>german flag
>caring bout goatfuckers
kek
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>>540828092
Lol its not like those sand nigger are innocent. They egged on murrica to attack iran thinking it gonna be fast and easy likes Venezuela.
Fucked around and found out of highest order
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>>540828092
>TL:DR
Let me guess "a person familiar with"?
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>>540828092
>lugenpresse
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>>540831630
Israel wants to seize the Strait and Suez and direct energy pipelines through their territory and charge tolls on all of it. They need the USA to do this but afterwards they will discard them. If they pull it off they would be extremely powerful.



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