Arab Gulf states… a strategic victory without war

[VCheng]

Gulf countries have such a strangehold on petroleum that multiple discoveries have not changed the fundamental calculus

I would love to see some data that supports your statements above, thanks.

 

[The SC]

Interesting, especially when one considers that GCC countries have been very consistent in their message to USA that a nuclear armed Iran was totally unacceptable to them, and that they would be forced to go nuclear as well.

The bases were created as part of that commitment to prevent Iran from going nuclear, and what you say is merely a veneer of pretending to look the other way to appear clear of their own involvement in this whole process.

That will fool only the gullible.

Just before this war there was no beef between the GCC and Iran..might be because the latter assured them it won't go nuclear.. like it has convinced Trump now.. But the real entity that was after Iran going nuclear is Israel..Natanyahu was boosting last week that he was fighting the Iranian nuclear program for the last 35 years non-stop..
The GCC was concerned too but they've got reassurance from Iran ..that's why the relationship sponsored by China have succeeded..and since than everything was going smoothly between them..This last war just shook up that smoothness..and who else could have benefited from this shake up apart from Israel..

 

[VCheng]

might be because the latter assured them it won't go nuclear.

The GCC was concerned too but they've got reassurance from Iran

And we know this how, exactly, Sir?