Lori Siegel
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Why?
Because for them, they've taken hits now in Aramco, Dharan.
They've got these Houthis down in the Red Sea.
They've had their refineries at Yanbu hit.
They've had the straits closed.
This is an insane actual existential threat to Saudi Arabia, to the UAE, to Qatar, to all of these countries.
So Qatar has been courageous.
I'll give them credit.
They're like, look, we have to live with Iran.
It is what it is.
You know, we're a small country, they're a big country.
We're not that far away from each other.
But Saudi UAE means they're filthy rich, large powers.
For them, they've had tremendous economic damage and they rely on foreign investment and foreign buyers more than anything.
So you mess with oil,
We can't be having this, right?
So for them, they're actually itching to try and get into the war, the Saudis.
They've been calling Trump, hey, yeah, let's do it.
Let's put ground troops in there.
That's another issue, is now you have allies who have divergent interests from ours.