US troop withdrawals threaten to fuel greater, potentially problematic Gulf assertiveness

By James M. Dorsey
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As far as Gulf leaders are concerned, President Donald J. Trump demonstrated with his announced US troop withdrawals from Syria and Afghanistan that his insistence that the “world is a dangerous place” has never been truer.
The troop withdrawals coupl…
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