Messenger THE State of Kuwait is scheduled to receive the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken the day after tomorrow on his first official visit to a strategic ally outside NATO. This visit bears several connotations, but what is most important is the guest’s view of the Gulf people particularly Kuwaitis, and the importance of its role in this region, which has become like a boiling cauldron such that it is not known when it will explode. This is due to decades of American fluctuations in the Gulf-US relationship. The Gulf-US relations date back to the 1930s, and they continued to advance after the British exit in the 1960s and 1970s. However, the Soviet Union exploited the political vacuum during that period in order to market its theory through the communist and socialist parties in the Arab world particularly in the Gulf region, benefiting from its propaganda in portraying the United States as an invading power that stands against the freedom of nations.