This competition happpening behind the scenes can have an impact on Kuwait’s position vis-a-vis relations with Iran and Iraq, as well as on its capacity to mediate the crisis is Qatar
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Turkey believes that a slowly emerging superstructure of political, economic, and security interests will inevitably challenge its regional position. This has transformed an economic competition into an existential struggle
The Danish newspaper quotes from the Deep Sea Rivals report
Behind the scenes, however, younger princes would likely continue to compete to succeed him
What we have seen in the past weeks is that France and Turkey flexing their muscles
This makes it even more important for Sultan Haitham to try and keep Omanis close to one another and close to him because there is this other vulnerability
There was an almost generalized breakdown of authority
The only way out of this deadlock is to get Turkey and Greece to sit and talk
Le Monde quotes Ibrahim Kalin's discourse in an ECFR event of Eastern Mediterranean
Since their position might be unanimously rejected by the Security Council, it would not be surprising to see the US prepare a new array of unilateral sanctions against the countries that would not follow them blindly