UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain Cut Diplomatic Ties With Qatar…

This will have a large effect on the war in Syria. Qatar has been trying to push their pipeline through Syria to sell their natural gas to Europe. Their natural gas comes from one of the world's largest fields off-shore of Qatar. Qatar owns one half of the field. Iran owns the other half. Now with Qatar splitting from Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf States and joining up diplomatically with Iran Qatar will be unlikely to continue the fight in Syria since Iran is aligned there with the Syrian government that Qatar has, until now, been trying to overthrow. Continuing the fight in Syria now would leave Qatar with ZERO friends in the Gulf.

I have no idea what has caused this split among the Gulf States but I know it's a big thing geopolitically. It might be that Qatar has decided to join with Iran in selling its gas to China (instead of trying to get it to Europe) and if so this will have a huge impact on the petro-dollar. World wars are fought over things like this.

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