AP: "It's been a year since three of Qatar's neighbors plus Egypt severed ties with the Gulf state [...] Qatar looked to Iran and Turkey to plug the gaps. Qatari flights were rerouted over Iranian airspace. Turkey boosted its military presence in Qatar."https://apnews.com/amp/d30a0730b0a94f49a8f4b3820ec699a3 …
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@hxhassan: "A year on, however, Qatar has not only weathered the storm — it also appears to have emerged as the main winner of the conflict. ... the countries of the quartet, rather than Qatar, ... have suffered the most significant reputational setbacks"http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/06/04/qatar-won-the-saudi-blockade/ …Show this thread -
“Beginning weeks before the crisis, Qatar’s enemies recruited Western companies to help wage a relentless propaganda campaign on social media that shows little sign of abating. Key to this strategy has been Twitter bots”https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/06/05/fighting-the-weaponization-of-social-media-in-the-middle-east/?utm_term=.e16958851671 …
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@AlexEmmons: "the countries lobbying hardest for Tillerson’s removal were Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates ... Tillerson intervened to stop a secret Saudi-led, UAE-backed plan to invade and essentially conquer Qatar"https://theintercept.com/2018/08/01/rex-tillerson-qatar-saudi-uae/ …Show this thread -
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@jricole: “Tillerson no doubt played a role (and Exxon-Mobil will likely do well out of Qatar’s expansion of its natural gas exports). But Mattis also likely swung into action, and he wasn’t thereafter sacked. And Turkey was enormously important.”https://www.juancole.com/2018/08/tillerson-stopping-invasion.html …Show this thread
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