Saturday, October 20, 2018

GCC Disintegrates Further: Kuwait Seeks Military Support From Turkey

This comes completely out of the blue!😲

In the middle of the world’s worst geo political crisis between Saudi-America-Turkey, Kuwait has bailed out of GCC straight into the arms of Turkey.

Everyone needs to survive as a nation because what’s coming is going to be lethal.

Things are happening faster than any one can imagine this weekend.

It’s going exactly as we have predicted that there will be no GCC by Dec 2018, Qatar has gone, now Kuwait is gone. But it’s happening in a much worse manner than even what we have predicted.

In June 2018, Saudi-UAE went on their own creating an irreparable rift in the GCC and we warned this will lead to the dissolution of GCC.

Major step taken towards dissolution of GCC and first meeting of Saudi-Emirati Coordination Council         

Just a few days later, Oman issued a warning to UAE which again was unprecedented.

Oman issues warning to UAE as the GCC infighting escalates

Qatar left GCC for Turkey-Iran in June 2017 (after being blockaded by Saudi-UAE), and now in 2018, Kuwait has left Saudi-UAE and gone looking for safety towards the Turkey-Iran axis!

Nobody knows what’s going on but the problems this will create will hurt every single business in the GCC.

So far they have not even depegged their currencies from the US dollar nor accepted yuan for oil! Imagine what happens when they make THAT decision!

On 30 Sept, Saudi Crown Prince MBS visited Kuwait that was cut short from a 2 day trip to just a few hours due to tensions between the two nations.

Then immediately afterwards on Oct 10, 2018, Kuwait signed a military agreement with Turkey and is also seeking support from China. We expect Turkish troops to come into Kuwait in the next few weeks just like they did in Qatar in June 2017 and helped prevent an invasion of Qatar by Saudi-UAE.

Kuwait calls on Turkey to set up a military base on Kuwaiti territory  

Turkey, Kuwait sign military cooperation agreement for 2019

"The (regional) situation is not stable, so every country should think how to protect itself," Saleh Ashour, a member of the Kuwaiti parliament, said.

Oil output from Saudi, Kuwait shared zone on hold as ties sour   

Turkish-Kuwaiti rapprochement disturbs Gulf countries    

The enmity between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia dates to the border dispute during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Saudis had rejected the 1913 British-Ottoman Accord that drew the borders of Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and the Shatt al-Arab and declared war on Kuwait. In 1922, under the Uqair Protocol imposed by the British, two-thirds of the Kuwait territory was given to the Saudis. Kuwaitis, who were not invited to the bargaining table, were represented by British envoy Percy Cox. Kuwaitis have never forgotten this stab.

Except Saudi-UAE, all other nations like Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Bahrain are basically on their own. 

Bahrain is the weakest so it has no option but to continue to cling on to the Saudi-UAE axis for now.

Goodbye GCC, you were a great place while you lasted!👋


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