Leon Hadar
When the missiles began arcing across the Persian Gulf in late February, falling on Riyadh’s Eastern Province as well as on American bases in Bahrain, Qatar, and the UAE, the editorial pages in Washington reached for a familiar refrain: now, surely, the Saudis would have to choose.
The Iran war, we were told, would clarify what years of frustration with the kingdom’s “drift” toward Beijing and Moscow had not—that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s flirtations with multipolarity had been a luxury the Gulf could afford only in peacetime, and that the iron logic of deterrence would soon restore the old American-led order.
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