A Crisis in U.S.-Middle East Relations

When the leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates decline telephone calls from the president of the USA, rebuff his requests to assist decrease oil costs, and shrink back from condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and when the U.A.E. hosts Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in Abu Dhabi, there is no such thing as a doubt {that a} main disaster in U.S.-Arab Gulf relations is underneath approach.

This shall be exacerbated within the weeks forward if the U.S. nears an settlement with Iran over its nuclear program, lifting many sanctions within the course of. How Washington handles this unfolding predicament will form the area’s future, and America’s place in it, for many years.