During the 1970s in Saudi Arabia, there was a well-known joke about Kuwait that went something like this: King Faisal asked the members of his cabinet to look into what the great powers were thinking regarding an issue facing the kingdom and to report back. At the subsequent cabinet meeting, the foreign minister reported on the US position, the finance minister discussed the Soviet view, and so on and so on. When they were all done, Faisal said they had forgotten one of the great powers. Everyone was stunned. Who could it possibly be? Ah, the king told them, it is Kuwait.
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