{"id":1415,"date":"2025-10-02T04:07:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/aarts-paul-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T04:07:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:07:49","slug":"aarts-paul-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/experts-and-authors\/aarts-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Aarts Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left author content view\" id=\"content\">\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<div class=\"share\">\n\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    var addthis_config = {\n        ui_language = 'en'\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis sharing\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style\" addthis:title=\"Aarts Paul\">\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_twitter\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_pinterest_share\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_preferred_4\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_compact\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style\"><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">var addthis_config = data_track_addressbar;<\/script><br \/>\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"addthis article_options\">\n    \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"children\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n<div class=\"img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/current-global-affairs\/middle-east-events-as-a-mirror-for-experts\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/blogs\/current-global-affairs\/middle-east-events-as-a-mirror-for-experts\/73446-8-eng-gb\/middle-east-events-as-a-mirror-for-experts_column.jpg\" alt=\"Middle East events as a mirror for experts\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3 class=\"blog_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/current-global-affairs\/middle-east-events-as-a-mirror-for-experts\/\">Middle East events as a mirror for experts<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/experts-and-authors\/aarts-paul\/\">Paul Aarts<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/experts-and-authors\/de-vries-stephan\/\">Stephan de Vries<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t08 March 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tLet us start with a confession: in the last couple of months we both wrote articles and made statements claiming that most Arab regimes \u2013 including the Gulf monarchies \u2013 were still steadily in control for some time to come. 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