Doug Silliman
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NPR News: 05-16-2025 7AM EDT
I think he's really trying to shift the focus of American traditional dealings with the Gulf from the Carter Doctrine of 45 years ago, which was essentially oil for security, to new longer-term and deeper economic partnerships. And I think he has had a pretty good success on this one because the Gulf states also want to have this kind of relationship with the United States.