President Trump’s vision for the Middle East is bold: bring Gulf states into the U.S. ecosystem through trade, investments, and partnerships; align Arab nations with Israel; isolate Iran, eliminating its nuclear enrichment capability; shift attention to countering China. He believes Qatar, lured by economic deals, will join the Abraham Accords and normalize ties with Israel — a grand coalition with the capitalist West.
It’s audacious. But is it realistic?
For more than 25 years, Qatar — a tiny Gulf emirate with roughly 300,000 citizens and 12 percent of the world’s natural gas — has used its obscene wealth as a geopolitical weapon to buy global power. The goal? Control the narrative, shape Western discourse, and whitewash its radical Islamist agenda behind a diplomatic mask.
Qatar’s American and Global Influence
This isn’t conjecture. It’s a sophisticated, calculated, and well-funded campaign. As The Free Press exposed in “How Qatar Bought America,” the influence Qatar gained in the U.S. has no modern parallel. Doha, Qatar’s capital, has spent nearly $100 billion propagandizing U.S. institutions — Congress, universities, media organizations, think tanks, and corporations. It has transformed Middle East studies programs into Muslim Brotherhood indoctrination mills, radicalizing students against America, Israel, and Jews. //
Qatar is hardly moderate. It is ideologically aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood — a transnational Islamist movement bent on establishing Muslim world dominance via a global caliphate under Sharia law. Its strategy is simple: ignite chaos, then offer to fix it — for a price. It wants to appear indispensable to all, but accountable to none. //
The Saudis, for all their flaws, have cracked down on the Brotherhood, opened to Israel, and eased some of their hardline policies. Qatar has done none of that.
In 2017, President Trump noted that the nation of Qatar “has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.” //
American presidents must stop mistaking money for loyalty or diplomacy for morality. Hosting U.S. troops doesn’t grant absolution. Economic deals don’t erase terror ties.
If Trump’s visit becomes just a PR win for Doha, the message is damaging: buy enough jets, host enough troops, grease enough palms, and anything is forgiven.
Qatar is not a confused ally. It is a highly sophisticated player with a clear, dangerous agenda. That agenda is not ours.
President Trump has the leverage. He must use it — not to flatter, but to demand accountability. Insist on transparency. Force real change.
If he doesn’t, Qatar’s friendship will remain exactly what it has always been: a polished performance masking something far darker.
