Advancing Stability and Opportunity in the Middle East and North Africa
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Seventy-Eight Billion Dollars Wasted and KSA Needed to Run to Islamabad
Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) spent more on defence than every country on earth except four, and when Iranian missiles came,…
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Bin Salman is taking Saudi Arabia back to the days of ignorance
Few Muslims would have wished for Saudi Arabia to “modernise” and reach the condition that it is in today in…
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Pariah or Partner?
Instead of deepening its entanglement in the region, the United States should recognize the limited strategic importance of the Middle…
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Project Freedom and the Collapse of MBS’s Strategic Pretence
How Riyadh’s veto of an American operation in the Strait of Hormuz exposed the contradictions at the heart of Saudi…
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The UAE Walks Out, and Saudi Arabia Has Only Itself to Blame
When Suhail Al Mazrouei confirmed on Tuesday that the United Arab Emirates would withdraw from OPEC and OPEC+ on 1…
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MBS’s Losing Bet
Mohammed bin Salman gambled Saudi Arabia’s security on friendship with Iran and has now gone silent.
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How MBS’s Built a Neo-Colonial Order
For nearly a decade, Mohammed bin Salman has worked on his facade. In public he is the reformer: Vision 2030,…
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MBS’s Neocolonial Push Amidst the Iran-US Firestorm
The missiles hitting Iranian soil since March 2026 are not Mohammed bin Salman’s (MBS) weapons. They don’t need to be,…
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Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Is Another Way for MBS to Consolidate His Power
The autocrat has sole and final control over what many experts consider to be the most important, largest, and dangerous…
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The Double Game of MBS and Saudi’s Secret Alignment with the Axis It Claims to Oppose
How Mohammed bin Salman reconciled with Qatar, accepted Doha’s continued links to Hamas and Iran, deepened Saudi Arabia’s military dependence…
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