Once advocates for U.S. strikes on Iran, Gulf capitals now seek restraint, using their diplomatic ties with Tehran to avoid being caught in the crossfire. They view unpredictable U.S. support for Israel as a growing risk to regional stability.
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From hosting summits to expanding development assistance, India seeks to unite emerging nations while modernizing its military, promoting economic integration, and balancing regional security challenges. Its Global South outreach reflects both historical grievances and ambitions for greater international influence.
From Dubai’s logistics and financial growth to Abu Dhabi’s strategic partnerships, the UAE navigates great power competition with nimble governance. By maintaining multiple international relationships, it safeguards its sovereignty while asserting influence across energy markets, trade, and global diplomacy.
With Assad’s fall and shifting regional dynamics, the United States and Türkiye now share interests in preventing renewed Syrian conflict, limiting migration, countering ISIS resurgence, reducing Iranian and Israeli escalation risks, and supporting a unitary Syrian state through coordinated diplomacy and security cooperation.
Qatar leveraged the 2017 blockade by Saudi Arabia and the UAE to intensify lobbying, defend Al Udeid Air Base, secure arms sales, preserve its major non-NATO ally status, and strengthen military cooperation, successfully defeating congressional efforts that threatened U.S.–Qatar defense relations.
The analysis shows how Iran has adapted through sanctions evasion, eastward trade with China and Russia, de-dollarization, alternative banking systems, and welfare patronage networks that protect regime loyalists, ensuring state survival while shifting economic burdens onto the general population.
It proposes a phased transition: maintain strategic ambiguity, strengthen allies, bolster Taiwan’s self-defense, revitalize the One China Policy, expand diplomacy with Beijing, and reassure regional partners. Only after these steps should Washington clearly rule out direct military intervention.
Experts discussed a potential thaw in EU-China relations amid a shifting geopolitical landscape. While China expressed willingness to aid Ukraine’s reconstruction, European participants were cautious, citing distrust over Beijing’s alignment with Russia and its neutrality as a potential peacekeeper.
A study argues the U.S. missed three key chances to prevent Yemen’s war between 2011-2015, including by not restraining former President Saleh or moderating Saudi war aims. These failures, rooted in short-term priorities and flawed assumptions, enabled the Houthis’ rise to global disruptors.
The strikes have severely damaged Iran’s nuclear program, but the long-term effects remain uncertain. Analysts debate whether this will spur nuclear proliferation or deter it, while examining the muted response from Iran’s supposed allies like China and Russia.