Commodities
When U.S. Protection Stops Feeling Secure
Date: 2025-10-14 00:04:34
🛡️ When U.S. Protection Stops Feeling Secure
If you’re Qatar and you watch what’s happening in the region, one rational conclusion is this:
Allegiances don’t equal immunity. If a powerful actor decides you’re “part of the problem,” your capital can be at risk—full stop.
That changes the calculus.
We’re likely to see more security diversification across the Gulf—rekindling old ties, building new ones, and reducing single-point dependence on any one patron.
The bigger lesson for smaller states:
Redundancy over reliance
Options over obligations
Self-insurance over promises
In a world where one relationship can override all others, not having a single “big protector” may be the new form of protection.
🎙 Featuring Dr. Pascal Lottaz — Assistant Professor for Neutrality Studies at Waseda University (Tokyo), expert on neutrality during the World Wars & Cold War, and author of Sweden, Japan, and the Long Second World War (Routledge, 2022).
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