The UAE-Saudi Divorce: How the GCC Collapsed into a Zero-Sum Struggle for Middle Eastern Hegemony
For two decades, Western strategists, energy traders, and foreign ministers spoke of “Saudi-UAE” as though it were a single geopolitical organism – a hyphenated superpower anchoring the Gulf’s stability and America’s regional architecture. That organism is dead. What has replaced it is not a managed rivalry but a terminal fracture: two states pursuing incompatible visions…
