Ukraine joins Afghanistan and Yemen in shaping Gulf rivalries
Geopolitical shockwaves from the Taliban takeover reverberate and are now magnified by the war in Eastern Europe.
James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, a syndicated columnist and the author of the blog, The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer. A veteran, award-winning foreign correspondent whose career focused on ethnic and religious conflict, James focuses at RSIS on political and social change in the Middle East and North Africa, the impact of change in the Middle East and North Africa on Southeast and Central Asia and the nexus of sports, politics and society in the Middle East and North Africa and Asia.
Geopolitical shockwaves from the Taliban takeover reverberate and are now magnified by the war in Eastern Europe.
Israeli officials admit that they’ll have little choice but to toe the Western line — and the Gulf states may soon face a similar choice.
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