Gregg Carlstrom
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Sep
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to bypass the strait.
So they're in a much better position than a country like Bahrain, which went into the war with one of the highest debt to GDP ratios in the world, with limited foreign reserves.
Those problems have been exacerbated by the war.
Bahrain hasn't been able to export oil, which has strained its finances.
It's probably going to rely on bailouts from its Gulf neighbors for some time to come now.
And so I think it's going to be very difficult for Bahrain
to try and grow its economy going forward.
And then you have a lot of countries that are somewhere in the middle.
And I think what we've seen over the past four months, particularly because those countries don't have alternatives to the Strait of Hormuz, I think it's going to make it harder for them to position themselves as tourism hubs or hubs for business or look for ways to diversify away from hydrocarbons.
so in a lot of ways this war has made at least some of these gulf countries work on changes that were kind of already underway it's going to speed them up and it's going to perhaps take them in a different direction i think one lesson for the gulf from these past few months is they need to invest a lot more money in strategic sectors to try and mitigate this newfound risk that they face so i think you're going to see a lot of investment in defense
in logistics, building these ports and pipelines and things to bypass the Strait of Hormuz.
Food security is going to be a big conversation, hydroponic farms and other ways to try and grow food.
I think you're going to see a lot of money pouring into that and probably less money going into ski resorts in the desert and sci-fi cities on the Red Sea coast and the sorts of things that they were focused on before.
The other lesson from this, and it's one that I'm skeptical the Gulf states will actually learn, is that they need to be more united going forward.
What do you mean by that?
What we've seen over the past few months, indeed, is that Gulf countries have very different views of Iran.
Some want to try and reconcile with it now.
Others think it's a threat and they're focused on trying to contain it.
And they don't trust one another.
We've seen even their air defenses over the past few months have not been properly integrated despite years and years of pleas from the Americans.
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