Two of America’s most important Gulf partners are no longer pursuing identical regional interests. Their competition is reshaping oil policy, Yemen, Red Sea security, investment and the future balance of power in the Arab Gulf.
Jafaj | Sept 2, 20026
Prince Mohammed Bin Salman visits UAE|Meets Sheikh Mohammad Bin Zayed. Screengrab via Youtube.
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The Saudi-UAE relationship is not collapsing. It is changing.
For much of the past decade, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were treated as the core of a new Gulf partnership: closely aligned on Iran, hostile to political Islam, active in Yemen, supportive of regional normalization with Israel, and determined to reduce dependence on Western security guarantees.
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