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Dumb country makes dumb statements. NEXT!
A corrupt World Cup and a few tourism ads and suddenly Qatar think they can yap their mouths off about world affairs. >

Smart enough to backpedal at least >

The smart thing to do would be to not say anything stupid in the first place. >

Especially when you're a tiny "country" converted from a bunch of primitive tribes thanks to a natural gas well.. someone needs to teach those buffoons that it doesn't take skill to win the lottery. >

Sorry Qatar, but this is not  FIFA World Cup, where people forget about all the bribery and human rights violations. >

Thank you.. to fuck with Qatar already.. the place is basically a natural gas well turned into a country.. their workforce is almost entirely foreign and they wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for the US protecting them from Iran..
Idiots feel like they have the right to speak for global powers that could literally swat them like flies. >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 78%. (I'm a bot)


Qatar's found itself caught in a foreign relations pickle this week after the country's energy minister said Europe could eventually "Forgive and forget" Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Qatar supported a UN General Assembly resolution in March 2022 that demanded Russia's withdrawal from Ukraine.
"At the end of the day, from our perspective and our policy, as state of Qatar, we never politicize the energy. We see that food, medicine, energy, those are items that need to be protected, because they are for the people, they are not for the government, or for political reasons," he told CNBC. Qatar's energy and foreign ministries did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.


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"I understand that the Europeans today are saying there is no way we're going back to Russian gas. We're all blessed to have to be able to forget and to forgive. And I think things get mended with time," Saad Sherida al-Kaabi, Qatar's energy minister

I mean, he's not wrong. Europe might forgive and forget a few decades after Russia loses the war, coughs up Crimea and every other territory they stole, Putin steps down and Russia pays restitution for destroying Ukraine.
But probably not >

Shocking a Qatari would make an idiotic statement about a totalitarian state >

Sure.. in 50-100 years we might give them another chance, but realistically they aren't worth much and have no leverage. It's not like the world needs fossil fuel more and more, quite the opposite. Long term Russia doesn't have much to offer. >

Mail order brides? >

Why wouldn’t they? WWII anyone? I mean FFS Germany didn’t even have as much to offer Europe as Russia does and I think we can all agree that forgiveness was pretty swift for the nation that almost conquered the world, twice! Thrice if you’re willing to admit it.