Russian expert, Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Russia’s State Academic University for the Humanities Grigory Lukyanov explains how Moscow and Beijing can try to resolve the crisis as soon as this October. But the side effect of such a decision was the literal removal of immunity from Qatar – an immunity it valued, which the emirate had been building around itself for many decades through active foreign policy, by positioning itself as a neutral state, a mediator in negotiations, oriented toward rejecting the use of force in military relations. All this was meant to create, in the eyes of the regional and global public, an image of Qatar as a country not seeking to use violence, but determined to defend itself, including with the support of allies – such as the US since Iraq’s aggression against Kuwait, or Türkiye since the Qatar crisis of 2017.
Author: RT
Published at: 2025-09-09 21:13:39
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