Soft Power Masterstroke: Russia Sends Food Relief to Qatar

21st Century Wire says…
As 21WIRE reported earlier this week, the situation in the Gulf is now on a knife-edge, with Qatar and Turkey moving closer together – while Saudi Arabia, the UEA and the US also close ranks against the newly appointed emirate whipping boy.
Once again, Russia makes another shrewd move on the international stage, and increases its own geopolitical leverage in the process…
Andrew Korybko
The Duran
The Qatari-Saudi Cold War is a geopolitical scheme cooked up by the US and the UAE, as I explained in my 21st Century Wire article about ‘The Machiavellian Plot to Provoke Saudi Arabia and Qatar into a ‘Blood Border’ War’, but it’s not exactly a surprise that it happened.
My September 2016 forward-looking analysis about ‘The GCC: The Tripartite’s Big Barter In The ‘Eurasian Balkans” presciently forecast that a second round of Gulf tensions was bound to occur, and that the Great Power Tripartite of Russia, Iran, and Turkey could cooperate with Qatar in helping to break Riyadh’s stranglehold on the GCC. Moreover, my Geopolitica. Ru analysis from earlier this week about ‘Russia’s Energy Diplomacy In The Mideast: Boom Or Bust?’ accurately predicted that Russia will play a role in mediating tensions between the two feuding GCC countries, which has now officially come to pass with the Qatari Foreign Minister’svisit to Moscow this weekend.

This post was published at 21st Century Wire on JUNE 14, 2017.