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For decades, Gulf countries built their security doctrine on one assumption: American military protection is the ultimate insurance policy. But this war with Iran is exposing the brutal reality that Washington’s priority is Israeli security, not Gulf security, and the U.S. footprint in the Gulf is a magnet. Those...

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