QATAR PERSPECTIVE

Doha poses the question Europe dares not ask: can NATO survive without the United States? Al Jazeera publishes an in-depth analysis titled 'Closer to Rupture Than Ever' exploring post-American scenarios for the Alliance. The article documents European options — defense budget increases, bilateral cooperation, European pillar — with the detachment of a Qatari outlet for whom NATO was never a security guarantee. A second article reports that Starmer and Trump discussed 'military options' to reopen Hormuz, placing Britain in the paradoxical position of planning operations with a president it no longer supports. Qatar, which hosts the US Al Udeid base and depends on regional stability, reads this crisis as a test of what happens when the boss loses interest in his alliance.