set up to capitalize on the revolution spanning the region by supporting islamist movements particularly the muslim brotherhood various offshoots to in the early days of the uprisings and electoral successes looked to be critical new players shaping the region's future. but when the revolution spread to the golf this proved to be a little too close to home for the all sunny in both bahrain and yemen atar if strategy was very limited. the network still remain and can be easily redeveloped when the region witnesses more people's. lastly, the uae like saudi arabia, the uae has focused primarily on delegitimizing political activism and promoting obedience to establish authority. the uae along with sally was leaving the regional counterrevolution of the middle east and bankrolled much of the efforts to squash the uprising. but the main focus so far as religion is concerned has been on the messaging toward the west. namely projecting an image of tolerance moderation and progress towards in particular the united states to remain saudi arabia uae security, the case par excellence of the so-called government-sponsored

pro-political islam, that's the last thing, egypt is better than islamist trna, last thing you want is a huge influx of people who want the muslim brotherhoodhamas which are the same thing to take over your country. stuart: give me a end game here, where do you think they go? >> the end game shift the attention away from the palestinians to deter them militarily, degrade their capabilities. hezbollah is in big trouble because they are shiites and syria got taken over by sunni jihadists. but the attention iran which is the paymaster and the ideological support for all these terrorists groups that strike in europe and want to strike the united states which is what trump did the first time. the conventional wisdom is solve palestinian issue, trump said no, if you solve iran or put iran on the back foot you improve the middle east and he did once and we can do it again. stuart: it would be nice if one of the states returned to prosperity but it doesn't look likely, does it? thanks for joining us. appreciate it always. joe scarborough went off on elon musk's handling of doge. was this all about usaid? >> reporter: he said the move to end usaid w

islamist advocacy movement movement. they wanted to be people to be more islamic to live a life and to live a more decent life. they came out of the muslim brotherhood tradition, which started way back in the in the 1930s and the arab world. but they evolved. and this is one of the critical things about hamas, which people don't understand. and hezbollah is similar. it's remarkable how similar they. but the evolution of hamas from its origins as an islam movement to one that focused heavily they had made a decision on that they're not going to get into politics. they're not going to have a military wing. they're going to do social justice, kindergartens, bakery is a women's literacy group. so whatever they were focused on the ground and this is, as you know, starting this was in the early 1980s, the late 1980s, when they came into being very focused on social side of of of life think that if we just strengthen the vitality and the integrity and the capabilities of our people we will achieve what is our right eventually. but eventually they turned to resistance because after first intifada and the second intifada, they saw that they existing palestin

what you have in here is islamist muslim brotherhood, and they control the narrative in various stuff. for example, the grooming when it happened of the children and all that, and the raping of children in britain because of certain members of the muslim society. why didn't we have a protest as much as we had it for gaza, in the street, in the street, and raising their pictures and asking the justice to bring them back into prison at least, or at least put the trial back and so on. why didn't we have that? that's because you have the muslim brotherhood, who are the party that organised this protest and controls community. when to go out and not to go out. and it controls everything. when you have illegal immigrants coming all the way to britain, for example, the way to britain, for example, the muslim brotherhood, all the way in iraq, all the way in somalia, all the way in birmingham, in sheffield. well, they do they actually bring them lawyers, change their cases. they literally work on changing their cases where it fits the home office that they give, going to guarantee them citizen

and the muslim and the muslim brotherhood and the islamists are do when he came he said he would do when he came in, which is then these wars and the war in gaza and the war in ukraine. he's really looking at short term outcomes here. and i think that that's what we're going to be seeing going forward with this potential forced peace deal >> an irony, a paradox as far as i'm concerned. donald trump is putting america first, but apparently happy to see russia, the historic enemy, triumph in europe. i mean, triumph in the short term by getting, you know, a good result for putin in ukraine. but, i mean, if europe is to be defenceless, there's been quite a lot of talk this morning about what russia's next move might be. is this really in the interests of the united states? >> i don't think it's in the united states interest at all to be negotiating with a bully and an authoritarian like vladimir putin. i think it's a very worrying moment for europe. as you say. it feels like we've been left defenceless on our own. america clearly no longer going to stand up for europe and for the for the sha