Royalty & Rulers feud: Qatar -v- neighbours

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A simple title for a dispute that threatens regional stability and basing for Western forces, notably USAF. With only one clear winner IMHO: Iran.

This is a clear explanation, which starts with:

The Gulf Arab monarchies are currently in the depths of a deep and painful spat. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain have joined forces to compel Qatar to change its policies and its approach to foreign policy. We can offer educated guesses as to what is irritating the troika this time, not least through extrapolating from similar difficulties in recent decades. But, aside from some generic complaints emanating from the media outlets hostile to Qatar, there are, in reality, few actual details available. Nor are there any official statements of demands from the troika currently available for Qatar’s elite to consider and respond to.
(Ends with) Though it is not easy, and there are important and keenly-felt divisions, the states need to realise that, ultimately, far more unites them than divides them.

Link:https://defenceindepth.co/2017/06/19...y-in-the-gulf/

There are some posts on this spat elsewhere, which defy easy copying to here, so use this link to see them, approx. twenty-five:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ighlight=qatar
Finally last Twitter had a film clip of a small number of Turkish APC's arriving in Qatar; which I suspect came by sea.