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US Foreign Policy in Shambles: NATO and the Middle East. How Do You Wage War Without Allies? ------------------------------------------------------------ By Prof Michel Chossudovsky (https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/michel-chossudovsky) and Bonnie Faulkner (Guns and Butter) (https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/bonnie-faulkner) Global Research Click to read this article in your browser (https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-foreign-policy-shambles-nato-middle-east/5684713) . Michel Chossudovsky discusses the recent US/Iran clash in the Persian Gulf; Iran’s capability as a military power; the breakup of the Gulf Cooperation Council; the Al-Udeid military base in Qatar the largest US base in the Middle East, and Qatar an ally of Iran; the flop of the proposed Middle East Strategic Alliance, also known as the Arab NATO; the July 2016 failed coup d’etat against Turkish President Erdogan; the US/Israel/Turkey “triple alliance” now a Turkey/Iran/Russia “triple entente”; Turkey’s purchase of the Russian S-400 missile defense shield constitutes its de facto exit from NATO; the geopolitical realignment of the Middle East and its repercussions on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.