Joe Biden to meet Qatar leader today as Europe energy crisis looms
President Joe Biden is hosting the ruling leader of Qatar at the White House on Monday as he looks for the gas-rich nation to step up once again to help the West as it faces the prospect of a European energy crunch if Russia further invades Ukraine.
Qatar played a central role in aiding last summer’s US military evacuations of Afghan helpers and US citizen in Afghanistan, hosts the biggest American air base in the Middle East, and served as a go-between with the Taliban for the last three US administrations as they tried to wind down America’s longest war.
Now, with s ome 100,000 Russian troops massed at the Ukraine border, experts say Qatar the world’s second-biggest exporter of liquified natural gas,
