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2017-06-07 Arabia

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Posted by Fred 2017-06-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Background on the geopolitics. And is often the case, the geo is more important than the politics.

Posted by phil_b 2017-06-07 02:13|| 2017-06-07 02:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Problem with American bases in Turkey. Think about American basing in Qatar.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-06-07 07:40|| 2017-06-07 07:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Qatar's Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani recent call for warmer relations with Iran has annoyed Saudi Arabia. I got that. But how much financial and intelligence support is Qatar giving Iran? And why? What is in it for Qatar?

Posted by Chesney Wittlesbach8478 2017-06-07 07:47|| 2017-06-07 07:47|| Front Page Top

#4 What is in it for Qatar?

Shared gas field. Got it.

Posted by Chesney Wittlesbach8478 2017-06-07 07:54|| 2017-06-07 07:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Problem with American bases in Turkey. Think about American basing in Qatar.

It will be like the British bases in Cyprus when the Turks invaded. Strictly a local affair they will stay out of.

Posted by phil_b 2017-06-07 08:36|| 2017-06-07 08:36|| Front Page Top

#6 I find the Turks authorizing troops for Qatar rather ominous.

What a tangled web the region is becoming.

Posted by phil_b 2017-06-07 20:49|| 2017-06-07 20:49|| Front Page Top

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