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Trump Has a New NATO—in the Middle East | Opinion

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David Rothkopf : C-SIPA could soon become the NATO of the Middle East .

He says the deal was signed by the Biden administration with the Kingdom of Bahrain in September 2023 .

The agreement contains " three core pillars of increased bilateral cooperation," he says.

The deal survived because it was overshadowed by the October 7 attack on Israel , just three weeks later .

Biden purposefully antagonized Riyadh by making it a pariah over the gruesome death of Jamal Khashoggi .

Trump, on the other hand, will almost surely move closer to the House of Saud .

Now he has a perfect vehicle to entice the kingdom into the American orbit and out of the Chinese one.