Nancy Youssef

In the run up to this, you'll remember that the president threatened to attack Greenland.

And you saw the sort of shocks of that go through Europe in terms of could they count on the United States as a reliable partner.

During this conflict, he threatened to leave NATO immediately.

because they wouldn't come to the defense of the Strait and then later said that we didn't need NATO because we don't need the oil and we don't care about the Strait.

So again, there was sort of a tension there.

The Gulf states had really pinned their security on their relationship with the United States.

They had bases throughout the region because they thought those bases would be a security guarantee.

As it turns out, it made them a bigger target.

they had built defense relationships with the United States, hoping that that would lead to security.

And again, it ended up making them a target.

Now, there are a few options for the Gulf in terms of how they look at alternatives, but I do think we're going to see them start to diversify in light of how these past 39 days have gone.

And so I think the most immediate takeaway is we're going to see another consequential part of the

world really reassess its relationship with the United States, given the events of these past 39 days and how the war has played out and the impact that it's had on them and the US response to that.

Thank you.

So it kind of depends on who you ask.

If you talk to the Americans, they would say that they want the talks to include several sort of categories.

First, the future of Iran's nuclear program.

Second, the future of its ballistic missile capability.

Third, the use of its proxies across the region.

The Iranians would say that the talks have to focus strictly on their nuclear program, that asking them to limit their ballistic missile capability goes against their sovereignty and their ability for self-defense.