October 22, 2026 | Doha – Arabian Gulf
It seems Washington has finally decided to confront its Arab allies with a bitter truth: Pay the price of the alliance, but don’t expect us to fight your wars for you!
Speaking at the Global Security Forum in Doha, Trump’s envoy Tom Barrack declared that the era of American security guarantees, which lasted 80 years, is over. He even compared the restructuring of Washington’s relationship with Gulf states to
“raising a teenager”
who must learn to stand on his own feet!
Diplomatic humiliation disguised as advice: Barrack speaks about sovereign nations as though they were children requiring American supervision. The irony is that some Arab governments spent decades reinforcing this security dependence, only to discover that Washington never considered its commitment permanent.
Yemen forces a strategic reassessment: Barrack acknowledged Saudi Arabia’s difficult position and described deploying American ground forces against Ansar Allah in Yemen as pointless, noting that previous military interventions had failed to achieve their objectives.
We won’t protect you… but we aren’t leaving! Washington insists it will maintain its presence and logistical support while stepping back from its role as a security guarantor. In other words, the United States wants to preserve its military and political influence without bearing the full consequences of the region’s wars.
Even the prophets couldn’t solve the region’s problems! Barrack went further, invoking the Middle East’s thousands of years of history and the prophets who emerged from the region to justify Washington’s inability to resolve its conflicts. As though decades of American military interventions, wars, and regime-change operations deserve neither scrutiny nor accountability!
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The real irony lies not only in Barrack’s arrogance, but in the fact that an American official can openly compare his allies to teenagers while certain Arab capitals continue treating Washington’s approval as a guarantee of their security and political survival.
As for Yemen, Barrack’s admission that a ground intervention would be futile carries significant military implications: Washington recognizes that air superiority and advanced military technology do not necessarily guarantee victory over a force capable of sustaining its resistance and imposing substantial costs on its adversaries.
This reinforces Sanaa’s position that the solution cannot come through further bombardment and foreign military intervention, but through ending the aggression and reaching a political settlement that respects Yemen’s sovereignty.
The bottom line: After decades of purchasing American weapons, hosting US military bases, and relying on Washington’s security umbrella, Barrack now arrives to inform America’s Arab allies that they must learn to defend themselves.
And the question that should be asked in every Arab capital is this:
If Washington itself declares that the era of American protection is over, why does the era of Arab dependency continue?