The recent photos of Putin and the Saudi smiling belie their insecure future.
The group that initiated the blockade, which also includes Egypt, the UAE, and Bahrain, accused Qatar of supporting terrorist groups and being too close to Iran... Qatar has denied the accusations and launched counter-accusations against the leader, Saudi Arabia, of trying for a regime change in the Gulf state.
However Qatar is the smallest producer in Opec and didn’t have much say in how things went with Opec anyway.