As President Donald Trump searches for an exit from the war in Iran that he initiated, his abandonment of Ukraine to a grinding Russian invasion has shaken Gulf allies' confidence that the United States will be around much longer to defend them from Iranian retaliation.
Three heretofore U.S. allies—Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates—have pivoted to Ukraine for new security and defense cooperation deals that will provide them with state-of-the-art "drone killers" to take down Iran's Shahed drones now blasting the Gulf region.
Iranian-built and Russian-enhanced Shahed drones have been fired on Ukraine for more than four years as Russian President Vladimir Putin presses his campaign to conquer the former Soviet republic. Nightly barrages of...
As President Donald Trump searches for an exit from the war in Iran that he initiated, his abandonment of Ukraine to a grinding Russian invasion has shaken Gulf allies' confidence that the United States will be around much longer to defend them from Iranian retaliation.
Three heretofore U.S. allies—Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates—have pivoted to Ukraine for new security and defense cooperation deals that will provide them with state-of-the-art "drone killers" to take down Iran's Shahed drones now blasting the Gulf region.
Iranian-built and Russian-enhanced Shahed drones have been fired on Ukraine for more than four years as Russian President Vladimir Putin presses his campaign to conquer the former Soviet republic. Nightly barrages of...