Sovereignty on Paper: Saudi Escalation, Sudan's Southern Front, Baghdad's Militia Reckoning, and Cairo's Nile Gambit

With the US coalition out of Iraq, Houthi drones reaching Saudi airports, and Egypt expelling Ethiopian diplomats over the GERD, this episode argues that formal sovereignty announcements mean little when the instruments of state coercion remain contested. Abdulaziz Alkhamis examines four Arab capitals where the gap between declared authority and actual control is the defining political fact of this week.

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