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Qatar is brokering passage through a war that hit its own coast. Mediation is climbing as the LNG hub it depends on burns.
Doha is running the 2017 blockade playbook again, turning vulnerability into indispensability by becoming the room everyone walks into when nobody else will talk.
The dual-track hedge between Washington and Tehran has collapsed into a single lane, with Qatar now functionally a US security client.
Ras Laffan damage and the Hormuz throttle have stripped Qatar's commercial leverage over Europe and Pakistan, leaving brokerage, not gas, as the instrument keeping it relevant.
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U.S.-Iran War Triggers Hormuz Disruption and Structural Energy Realignment
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