Shortly after President Trump returned from his Middle East trip, Saudi Arabia and other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) broke diplomatic relations with fellow GCC member Qatar and established a blockade around the tiny country. The Saudi pretext was that Qatar supported terrorism and interfered in the affairs of other countries – something the Saudis do in spades. President Trump initially signaled support for the Saudi move, but his Secretary of State and Defense Secretary, likely understanding that the largest US military base in the Middle East is in Qatar, have urged the countries to patch up their differences. US interventionism has backed us into a corner in that corner of the world. We discuss options in today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report:
Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.
qatar refuses to share or cut a price break to big brothers SA and also decided that it needed Iran’s help to become the natural gas global leader………now they’re persona non grata and the new enemy of America…..What a bunch of military/media propaganda…….the fact that trump is playing along says a lot about who really dictates washington foreign policy……..
Trump quite realistically asks a bunch of arab leaders to cut the shit and stop funding radical Islam, and the biggest kid on the block ironically points the first finger. Funny that the source of funds for the most notorious terrorist attack on the USA came from SA.