Three Arab nations are on the verge of war with each other, and two of them own Donald Trump
It’s a conflict of interest that Donald Trump is maintaining personal financial ties to various foreign nations while occupying the office of President of the United States. But the real problem is that he’s deeply in debt and cash-poor, meaning he doesn’t just do business with foreign nations; they own him. So now that three Arab nations are suddenly on the verge of war with each other, it’s a wee bit of a problem that Trump is owned by at least two of them.
What’s happened is that the decades old Gulf Cooperation Council has suddenly fallen apart. Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates are accusing their own longtime ally Qatar of sponsoring ISIS (link). Things are deteriorating so swiftly that the feuding nations are closing ports of entry with each other and expelling each other’s citizens. While it’s not a given that they’ll end up at war with each other, they seem to be on the brink of it.
Ordinarily, it would fall on the U.S. President to step in and help prevent all-out war by flexing the diplomatic muscles of the United States. But that only works when the President has any muscles to flex. In this instance we’ve got Saudi Arabia having just given $100 million to a phony charity that’s really a slush fund for Trump’s daughter (link). And we’ve got the United Arab Emirates having finally allowed Trump’s long stalled Dubai golf course to get off the ground shortly after Trump took office and ordered the Yemen raid as an apparent favor (link).
So we already know which side of this conflict Donald Trump is going to have to side with: the one that’s floating him cash and allowing his golf course to finally prosper. Is Qatar really supporting ISIS, or is this just a convenient accusation that Saudi Arabia and UAE are using in the name of squeezing their own former ally, knowing that Trump isn’t in a financial position to intervene? This is why the President of the United States isn’t supposed to have foreign financial ties – particularly when that President is so deep in debt as to be a puppet of his foreign debtors.
