{"id":151130,"date":"2026-05-10T21:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T21:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151130"},"modified":"2026-05-10T21:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T21:30:05","slug":"why-the-uaes-opec-exit-spells-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-gulf-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151130","title":{"rendered":"Why the UAE\u2019s Opec exit spells the beginning of the end of Gulf unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostOn April 28, the United Arab Emirates informed the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) it was leaving. Three days\u2019 notice. No call to Riyadh beforehand, apparently. The grievance about production quotas was years old: Abu Dhabi had threatened to quit in 2021. What\u2019s changed has nothing to do with the barrel count. It is about who underwrites Abu Dhabi\u2019s security when it acts on a decision Riyadh opposes.<br \/>\nAfter Iran struck UAE infrastructure, Abu Dhabi sent only a foreign&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/world-opinion\/article\/3352666\/why-uaes-opec-exit-spells-beginning-end-gulf-unity?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostOn April 28, the United Arab Emirates informed the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) it was leaving. Three days\u2019 notice. No call to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151130"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}