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Gulf monarchies, which have bought American for decades, are looking at Kyiv as the partner for drone warfare.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Africa has become a place of economic competition between multiple powers, including the United States, China, Europe, Russia, Turkey and Gulf monarchies.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

The feeling in the U.A.E. and fellow Gulf monarchies after Tehran restarted the missile and drone strikes on Monday is that Mubarak might have had a point, diplomats and analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

Anwar Gargash, a diplomatic adviser to the Emirates’ ruler, lashed out this week at the Gulf Cooperation Council, saying the position of the group representing the Arabian Peninsula’s monarchies “is the weakest in history.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

Their many societies had developed rigid social and economic class structures in which wealth and power were concentrated among monarchies, aristocracies, and the Catholic Church.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz