Rift with Qatar is most important foreign confrontation in the world -Bannon

The “most important foreign confrontation in the world” right now is the Arab isolation of Qatar, US President Donald Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon says, according to Bloomberg. “What’s happening in Qatar is every bit as important as what’s happening in North Korea,” Bannon said, noting that he believes Qatar must be held accountable for funding the Ikhwan. He added that Trump’s speech on Middle East policy was a milestone. “I don’t think it was just by happenstance that two weeks after the summit that we saw the blockade” on Qatar, he said.

… Separately, Kuwait’s ruler Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah cautioned that the Qatar rift “could see more complications” even as he continues mediation efforts, the Associated Press reports.