Just four months or so on from the development of the Red Sea Conspiracy, MBZ expresses to Barrack through the Emirati ambassador to the United States, Yousef al-Otaiba, that “confusion about your friend Donald Trump is very high,” adding that Trump “has many people extremely worried” because of his call for a travel ban impacting certain Arab nations.29 Despite MBZ’s trepidation, the Emirati prince knows, as presumably does his emissary al-Otaiba, that a select group of Sunni Arab leaders has lately chosen Donald Trump to be their future American partner in realigning the balance of power in
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