The UAE's leadership expressed a willingness to sit down with Putin

Though long regarded as the LOYAL ROYALS to the West, the UAE's leadership expressed a willingness to sit down with Putin in the two heads-of-states latest meeting and hear the Russian leader's vision for cooperation in the region and in world markets, aimed at "creating stability."

With Gulf nations such as Saudi Arabia's recent snubbing of Biden's push to control oil prices, its a question just HOW CREDIBLE the GCC's inclinations to turn eastward are.