Alleged coup attempt in Jordan, ~20 arrests, including royal

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From a collapse in turnout to a universal decimation of nearly a decade of growth recently, the Jordanian monarchy has responded to pressure of changing the economic and political sphere by brute force. The crackdown that will ensue now will only get worse as there's very little hope that US and Israeli aid will be enough to get an antiquated monarchy's economy out of the hole.

Jordan is conforming to similar trends in the Arabian Gulf, and the current king isn't as able to maneuver over this as Oman's Qaboos was.

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Huh, the alphabet soup agencies haven’t had much success doing much of anything with the Don at the helm. Even still, I’m a bit skeptical. The arrested prince *is* a cosmopolitan liberal relatively speaking, so I’m not sure what the Trump administration could get out of him.

Oh well, at least if this was a wasted operation, it hit at the seams the Jordanian monarchy.