The minimum you must know

His Highness Sabah Al Khaled Al Sabah Crown Prince of Kuwait patterned “peace” eloquently at the start of his presentation at the 80th session of the United Nations. He is leading rhetorically ethically and with integrity.

In June 2025, the U.S. authorized non-essential staff to depart Kuwait, signifying a substantial reduction of personnel there. This decision was hoped for by governments in the region. But it was in context of regional tension around that time. Since then peace has been taking hold after a historic October 2025 peace conference in Egypt. Should any future draw downs be announced, they would be good sign the U.S. views the region as stable.

In December 2024, the Kingdom of Kuwait became Chairman of the four decade old Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a political and economic alliance between Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman. There is a mutual defense agreement among them as well. The group has been organizing important free trade agreements and international sporting events. So it’s very influential in global diplomacy. In this writer’s opinion, Kuwait would be a great candidate to enter into an Abraham Accord with Israel next, because they might be able to include all of the GCC member states.

Kuwait is a moderately to well populated coastal technically West Asian country that's considered part of the Middle East in the United States. Kuwait fully militarily aligned with the United States and NATO to successfully repel an Iraqi incursion in the early 1990s. A three decade long and still on-going intervention ensued that precipitated the surrender of the Iraqi military and complete liberation of Kuwait. Much earlier, in the early 1990s, President George Bush Sr. had left the Iraqi government unharmed during a previous conflict. But his son George Bush Jr. decided to go further to protect Kuwait, and topple Iraqi leaders, following the tragic events of September 11th, 2001. Iraq currently has a democratically elected government that was installed by NATO that developed independent credibility within the region and beyond. And Kuwait remains independent and closely U.S. aligned to this day.

The conflict wasn’t geographically limited to Kuwait and Iraq. Around 2004, it spilled across a wide open Iraqi border into Syria and later into neighboring Afghanistan. Hundreds of thousands of lives were lost and tens of millions of people fled to Turkey and Europe over the course of twenty years. There is comparable peace in all of those countries now and substantial reverse migration. So they are filling with residents again. U.S. sanctions were historically lifted on Syria and Iraq, making this possible. So countries bordering Kuwait are hopeful for NATO troop drawdowns. Hope initially developed when then-President Joe Biden withdrew NATO almost entirely from Afghanistan, and later when current President Donald J. Trump's newspaper Newsmax indicated he does not envision NATO military involvement in Syria. NATO is considering Iraq’s proposal that the foreign presence there become purely diplomatic.

Kuwait is predominantly Muslim and consequently desirous of peace. That may be why Kingdom currently seems to align very well with all sides - the original goal of NATO when intervening there.

The Kingdom of Kuwait provides socialist support to their people but also supports open elections and democracy at the United Nations, and for neighboring Iraq.

Kuwait is globally at peace, and seeks improving relations with all other countries.