🇺🇸🇦🇪 Washington's Gulf partners are furious but still silent
The MOU collapse split the GCC: some security officials now want U.S. ground forces inside Iran or the seizure of Kharg Island to force Hormuz open.
Qatar wants the opposite, working with Pakistan to de-escalate.
Iranian missiles have hit Kuwaiti utilities and air operations, plus targets in Jordan, Iraq and Oman. Tankers are being struck near the strait. Gulf producers are now sailing with transponders off.
Several capitals have quietly opened talks with Europe on alternative defence and mine-clearing.
Deficits are widening. The AI, finance and tourism diversification plans are the collateral. And they've refused to help fund the $300bn Iranian reconstruction package. Declining to pay to rebuild the country that bombed them.
Ali Vaez of Crisis Group: frustrated, but powerless to stop either belligerent.
The states with the most to lose have the least say. How long does that hold?
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