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Russia’s Collective Security Vision For The Gulf Is Now A Realistic Possibility
Russia’s Collective Security Vision For The Gulf Is Now A Realistic Possibility
The Third Gulf War is radically reshaping the Gulf Kingdoms’ perceptions of American reliability and leading them to consider the need to negotiate a post-war regional security arrangement with Iran.
Reuters reported that “Behind the scenes, resentment is mounting in Gulf Arab capitals at being drawn into a war they neither initiated nor endorsed but are now paying for economically and militarily”. They added that “At the same time, analysts say the war has left Gulf states reassessing both their security dependence on Washington and the prospect of eventually engaging Tehran on new regional security arrangements — even as trust in Iran has collapsed.” That would be the best outcome for everyone.
It was assessed here at the start of the Third Gulf War after Putin’s calls with regional leaders that one of the goals that his envisaged mediation aims to achieve is for the Gulf Kingdoms to rescind the permission that they gave the US to use their territories and airspaces for attacking Iran. That would force the US into the dilemma of defying them at the risk of rupturing their relations or acceding to this new regional military reality and then pursuing what would likely be a (Russian–mediated?) compromise with Iran.
As surreal as it may seem, Lindsey Graham of all people arrived at a very similar conclusion last week. He wrote on X, “why should America do a defence agreement with a country like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that is unwilling to join a fight of mutual interest?… Hopefully Gulf Cooperation Council countries will get more involved as this fight is in their backyard. If you are not willing to use your military now, when are you willing to use it? Hopefully this changes soon. If not, consequences will follow.”
The US military’s departure from the Gulf would solve three problems at once: Iran would no longer be threatened by these forces; the Gulf Kingdoms would be safer since Iran wouldn’t attack them anymore for hosting them; and the US wouldn’t have to defend partners that have proven themselves to be freeloaders. Far from the security vacuum that critics imagine would follow, the Gulf Kingdoms and Iran could begin work on a three-phased regional security plan mediated by their shared Russian partner.
The end goal is for the Gulf Kingdoms and Iran to agree to Russia’s long-proposed Collective Security Concept for the region that readers can learn more about in detail here. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also recently referenced it when articulating Russia’s official position towards the Third Gulf War and its hopes for the direction in which the region will go afterwards no matter how unlikely it might now seem to some. Two preliminary steps are required, however, which will now briefly be touched upon.
The first is what can be described as a Gulf Non-Aggression Pact (GNAP), the specifics of which remain to be negotiated but would reasonably include limits on where certain military assets can be deployed, codes of conduct, and crisis communication channels, et al. Once this is agreed to, and it admittedly won’t be an easy task, then Iran could join the Saudi-Pakistani alliance like it’s reportedly considered doing since late last year. This can then form the core of Russia’s envisaged collective security bloc.
To review, the military-political sequence that Russia hopes to mediate in the Gulf is a cessation of hostilities through a series of reasonable mutual compromises, the departure of the US military from the region, GNAP, Iran joining the Saudi-Pak alliance, and then a collective security bloc forming afterwards. Up until the Third Gulf War began, most would have dismissed this strategic vision as a political fantasy, but Reuters’ recent report suggests that this is now a realistic possibility for the region’s post-war future.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.
#ArabWorld #Geopolitics #GulfCooperationCouncil #Iran #IranIsraelWar #MuslimUmmah #Pakistan #Russia #SaudiArabia #USA -
>Three Of Three< means there is
a pattern..."Are we sensing a pattern yet?"
#War against #Iran & the
#ArabWorld
1. Crashed the economy
2. Started a War in the middle east
1. Crashed the economy
2. Started a War in the middle east
1. Crashed the economy
3. Started a War in the middle east
#MakeAmericaDemocraticallyAgain
http://youtube.com/post/UgkxEvwrlEK_Jx4rCKTtDZADN3ZlNHmEps5d?si=2Jp5__O8Z4TVlVa5
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>Three Of Three< means there is
a pattern..."Are we sensing a pattern yet?"
#War against #Iran & the
#ArabWorld
1. Crashed the economy
2. Started a War in the middle east
1. Crashed the economy
2. Started a War in the middle east
1. Crashed the economy
3. Started a War in the middle east
#MakeAmericaDemocraticallyAgain
http://youtube.com/post/UgkxEvwrlEK_Jx4rCKTtDZADN3ZlNHmEps5d?si=2Jp5__O8Z4TVlVa5
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MENA Highlights Zuhur News 13 Feb. ‘26 on #Iran #Sudan #Palestine #Syria #Libya #Refugees #SaifGaddafi #Yemen #STC #SaudiArabia #Qatar #ArabWorld #Israel #Mossad #Egypt #Somalia
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20th Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces Longlists for All Categories
In its 20th year, Abu Dhabi-based Sheikh Zayed Book Award announces longlists for the prize selected from over 4000 submissions from 74 countries.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/12/20th-sheikh-zayed-book-award-announces-longlists-for-all-categories/#ArabWorld #ArabicLiterature #Awards #Literature #SheikhZayedBookAward
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20th Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces Longlists for All Categories
In its 20th year, Abu Dhabi-based Sheikh Zayed Book Award announces longlists for the prize selected from over 4000 submissions from 74 countries.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/12/20th-sheikh-zayed-book-award-announces-longlists-for-all-categories/#ArabWorld #ArabicLiterature #Awards #Literature #SheikhZayedBookAward
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Sunday, May 11, 2025
Why Ukraine isn’t building its own version of US Patriot — Witkoff uses Kremlin translators in meetings with Putin: “If they speak to each other in Russian, he doesn’t know what they are saying,” — Zelensky says demilitarized zone idea dead — US approves transfer of 125 long-range missiles, 100 Patriots from Germany to Ukraine … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/05/sunday-may-11-2025/
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Some fantastically enlightening analysis on the politics of #Chad vis-a-vis the current civil war in #Sudan, also with some interesting analysis of #UAE and its support for the #RSF
https://sudantransparency.org/the-implications-of-the-current-war-for-the-chad-sudan-relationship/
#africanpolitics #Sahel #geopolitics #OSINT #Darfur #geography #Zaghawa #ArabWorld #MENA @geography @geopolitics
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Some fantastically enlightening analysis on the politics of #Chad vis-a-vis the current civil war in #Sudan, also with some interesting analysis of #UAE and its support for the #RSF
https://sudantransparency.org/the-implications-of-the-current-war-for-the-chad-sudan-relationship/
#africanpolitics #Sahel #geopolitics #OSINT #Darfur #geography #Zaghawa #ArabWorld #MENA @geography @geopolitics
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New Arab Cinema Focused Int’l Sales Company MAD World Unveils Inaugural Slate Ahead Of Cannes Launch
#Festivals #News #Arabworld #Cannes #CannesMarket #MadSolutions #MadWorld #MENA -
New Arab Cinema Focused Int’l Sales Company MAD World Unveils Inaugural Slate Ahead Of Cannes Launch
#Festivals #News #Arabworld #Cannes #CannesMarket #MadSolutions #MadWorld #MENA -
#SocialMedia #ArabWorld #TrollFarms #Disinformation #DigitalLabor: "This article investigates the production culture and routines of “troll farms” in three Arab countries—Tunisia, Egypt, and Iraq—from a production studies approach. A production studies approach enables us to focus on the working conditions of paid trolls. We employed qualitative methods to look inside the “black box” of Arab troll farms. From February to April 2020, we conducted semi-structured interviews with eight disinformation workers at both managerial and staff levels. We propose to understand disinformation work as a specific type of digital labor, characterized by very intense shifts and emotionally burdensome daily tasks, absence of legal job contracts, and highly surveilled work environments. The article contributes to understand disinformation practices outside and beyond the West; it situates disinformation activities within the broader context of digital media industries; it provides a detailed analysis of the features that distinguish troll farms in the Arab world from those that emerged in other regions of the Global South; and it reconnects the research on disinformation to digital labor studies."
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051231224713
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Biden administration privately warned by American diplomats of growing fury against US in Arab world
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/09/politics/biden-diplomats-warn-middle-east-fury
#CNN #BidenAdministration #AmericanDiplomats #MiddleEastFury #ArabWorld #USRelations #Politics #News