[rapsey]

Russia is still an energy provider to Europe. Do we provide any security guarantees to Qatar or can protect the shipping lanes? We can not. It is controlled by the US, which is also a major supplier.

For every political squeeze EU can do, the US can squeeze 10x as hard.

ASML also has quite a lot of US suppliers. We are all tech dependent on each other, but China is working hard to fix that and the US also.

[RandomLensman]

The US is providing security guarantees to Qatar? When did the Senate vote on those?

[dragonwriter]

> The US is providing security guarantees to Qatar? When did the Senate vote on those?

Treaties aren't the only mechanism of security guarantees.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/assu...

[csomar]

They have a large military base there and provide arms and training. They do the same for the rest of the Gulf countries except Iran.

[rapsey]

The US is the security guarantor of the worlds shipping lanes. This is a corner stone of US led globalism. Read any geopolitical comentator or book and it will be there.

[fakedang]

Last I checked, Qatar was kicking out US personnel from Al Udeid because of Trump's threats to use it as a forward base against Iran.