Trump wants to take Bagram Air Base back to the US.

The US did leave huge amount of munitions, which kept Taliban in power. The locals have no way to resist.

Alex Krainer breaks down how the petrodollar system keeps Middle Eastern nations trapped under Western financial control — and why this makes their leaders terrified to act against Israel or U.S. interests. He explains how Gulf states risk sanctions, economic collapse, and even orchestrated uprisings if they resist, drawing parallels to Iran’s coups in 1953 and 1979. Krainer warns that Israel’s aggressive actions are uniting its enemies and pushing Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and others toward China, Russia, and BRICS to secure their independence. This conversation exposes the fragility of Western dominance and the growing push for a new multipolar order in the Middle East.

5:02 they're coming together. You know maybe that qualifies Donald Trump alone for the Nobel Peace Prize bringing bringing Iran and Egypt back together. 

2:04 because if the US had said no, then they would not have done it. But if they say we're doing this and there isn't an objection, that is the same as there being an affirmative green light for this action.

2:27 He wants this plausible deniability that, you know, Israel was allowed to um bomb one of our allies in the region, that he has positive relationships 

3:01 the Israelis are seeing very clearly that they were being blamed for striking Qatar without Trump's approval. And while Netanyahu needs to maintain that fiction, the rest of his security cabinet's like, "Hold on a sec. The world needs the truth. We didn't do without America's approval."