Bob Kagan
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first heard Feb 2026
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They've suffered enormous damage throughout all this, and not just the immediate physical damage, but their entire economies, especially the UAE, is now based on attracting Western investors and, you know, come to Dubai, it's really great, and you can set up your business here, you can set up your data centers here, etc., etc.
Well, if the place is dangerous, they're going to lose all that.
They're going to lose all that business.
And that's why, by the way, they were imprisoning people for taking pictures of the damage that Iranian strikes were having on the UAE because they didn't want that to get out there.
So the Gulf states have suffered.
They saw that the United States was not as concerned about them as it was about Israel.
By the way, another fact came out.
The
on Thursday, something I thought was really astonishing, which is the United States used up more of its interceptor THAAD missiles and other interceptor missiles defending Israel than Israel used of its own missiles to defend itself.
Among the point being that, A, we have now depleted our stocks to the point where we're extremely low, which raises all other questions about why Trump doesn't want to get into another round of conflict.
But also, we did not give...
the interceptors to the Gulf states even when they asked for them because we didn't have enough.
And now the Gulf states are turning to everybody else in the world, Turkey and others, to find interceptors because the United States doesn't have anything for them.
So the bottom line is,
The Gulf states must feel that they have picked a very wrong horse in the United States and Israel, and it has led to their being subjected to Iran.
And now they're staring down the barrel of Iran really being a much more powerful player in the region and controlling their fates through its control of the Strait of Hormuz.
Guess what they're going to do?
They're going to have to cut deals with Iran.
And those deals with Iran are not going to be favorable to the United States and they're not going to be favorable to Israel.
So that's what's been accomplished.
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