Graeme Wood

In Ukraine, there were these apps that would tell you when a missile was incoming.

And before too long, people would just ignore those in a lot of cities because they happen so frequently.

And Dubai seemed to have skipped right ahead to that stage.

So even two days after the war had begun, it seemed like nobody was heeding any of those alerts whatsoever and life was proceeding.

I mean, an enormous skyscraper is not a – it's not built as a military target.

If you want to take down the Burj –

Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, it would be very difficult to stop Iran from doing that if it wanted to concertedly send a fleet of drones to do so.

One thing that I think has been saving Dubai in particular, though, is that its cosmopolitanism is part of its shield.

There are Iranians there, hundreds of thousands of Iranians who are in the Emirates.

There are Russians, there are Chinese.

So if they were to destroy one of those malls that I said was operating at lower capacity but still operating,

they would definitely be a bunch of Russian, Chinese, and Iranian body parts strewn about.

So the Iranians, if they really wanted to destroy Dubai, they could do so, but they haven't.

And that, as you mentioned, goes for infrastructure as well.

If they really wanted to hit oil infrastructure in the Gulf,

hard, I think they could do much more damage than they already had.

But there would be consequences for their doing that.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, even... They being the Iranians, I should say.

Yeah, the Iranians have their money and their people.