Saudi Arabia planned to invade Qatar last summer. Was Tillerson fired because he tried to stop it?

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https://theintercept.com/2018/08/01/rex-tillerson-qatar-saudi-uae/

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1. This:

"But in the months that followed his departure, press reports strongly suggested that the countries lobbying hardest for Tillerson’s removal were Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, both of which were frustrated by Tillerson’s attempts to mediate and end their blockade of Qatar. One report in the New York Times even suggested that the UAE ambassador to Washington knew that Tillerson would be forced out three months before he was fired in March.

The Intercept has learned of a previously unreported episode that stoked the UAE and Saudi Arabia’s anger at Tillerson and that may have played a key role in his removal. In the summer of 2017, several months before the Gulf allies started pushing for his ouster, Tillerson intervened to stop a secret Saudi-led, UAE-backed plan to invade and essentially conquer Qatar, according to one current member of the U.S. intelligence community and two former State Department officials, all of whom declined to be named, citing the sensitivity of the matter."

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2. knr

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3. Probably...nt

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4. That explains Chump's sudden outburst against Qatar, one of our few friends in the Middle East

I figured it must have been either MBS or Erdogan who told him to get nasty with Qatar. What happens when we lose our strategic military base in Qatar? Then what do we do? Move everything to Saudi Arabia? I doubt that very much.

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5. Why?