Avril Haines: Pulling away from the Middle East ‘often doesn’t work out well’ | FT #shorts

As America attempts to reduce its footprint in the Gulf region, former US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines has warned that 'often it doesn’t work out well'.⁠ ⁠ ‘Honestly, when you try to pull away from it and you sort to minimise to the greatest degree your resource allocation, often it doesn’t work out well is what you see,’ Haines said in conversation with FT editor Roula Khalaf at the FT Weekend Festival.⁠ #shorts #shortsvideo #shortfeed #shortsviral #shortsyoutube #shortsvideos ► Enjoying FT content? Get a daily slice of the very best FT journalism with FT Edit. Free for 30 days then just £4.99 a month See if you get the FT for free as a student (http://ft.com/schoolsarefree) or start a £1 trial: https://subs.ft.com/spa3_trial?segmentId=3d4ba81b-96bb-cef0-9ece-29efd6ef2132. ► Check out our Community tab for more stories: https://www.youtube.com/@FinancialTimes/community ► Listen to our podcasts: https://www.ft.com/podcasts ► Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/financialtimes ► Follow us on Instagram: https://www.tiktok.com/@financialtimes