Last month, the Trump administration announced it would sponsor and organize a multilateral conference on the Middle East, a region inundated with problems as varied as the generations-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the diplomatic cold war between Saudi Arabia and Qatar. After getting considerable resistance from European governments about the event’s focus on Iran, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo changed the agenda to include Middle East security more broadly.

The two-day conference in Warsaw, Poland, was designed to be an opportunity where nations across multiple continents could sit together and brainstorm ideas. Evidently, the meeting isn’t going as planned.