The minimum you must know

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. However, Israel and Iran remain on the offensive towards one another.

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. The group organizes important free trade agreements and international sporting events. So it’s very influential in global diplomacy. In this writer’s opinion, they are a perfect 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 populated coastal technically West Asian country that's considered part of the Middle East in the United States. Kuwait militarily aligned with the United States and NATO to repel an Iraqi incursion in the early 1990s. A three decade long and still on-going intervention ensued. NATO quickly freed Kuwait. President George Bush Sr. had left the Iraqi government unharmed during his presidency in the early 1990s. But his son George Bush Jr. decided to go further and topple Iraqi leaders after countless airplanes went down over both Iraq and the United States. Iraq currently has a democratically elected government that was installed by NATO.

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. There is comparable peace in all of those countries now. But there are also still opposing militaries in the region. But NATO's mission seems to be evolving to deterrence and withdrawal. President Joe Biden, for instance, withdrew NATO almost entirely from Afghanistan. And President Donald J. Trump's newspaper Newsmax indicated he does not envision NATO military involvement in Syria. NATO is also 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 aligns very well with all sides - the original goal of NATO when intervening there.

The Kingdom of Kuwait provides socialist welfare to their people but 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.