Gregg Carlstrom
speaker
496 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 21 Jul
Gregg Carlstrom’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And yet, I think in many ways you could argue this is the greatest shock the Gulf has ever been through, even though the consequences of this war might seem less visible than previous ones.
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Yes and no, you've had thousands of Iranian missile and drone strikes on Gulf states, and they've caused tens of billions of dollars in damage.
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But mercifully they killed very few people.
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Compare that to the invasion of Kuwait, for example, when hundreds of Kuwaiti civilians were killed.
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So we haven't seen anything like that this year.
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And despite the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, even though you could bring almost nothing through.
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For four months.
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We haven't seen shortages in the Gulf.
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Countries in this region have spent huge amounts of money to keep shelves stocked and to keep their economies somewhat functioning.
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So they've managed to blunt the most direct impact of the war for their residents.
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But this war comes at a time when the Gulf is a very different place than it was in the 1980s or the 90s.
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Back then, it really was the
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The world's petrol station.
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Dubai was a sort of sleepy trading town on the coast.
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It wasn't yet a household name.
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Saudi Arabia was a dour place that didn't even offer tourist visas.
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Today it's something much different.
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It's a huge player in everything from finance to logistics.
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Some of the world's biggest airlines are in this region, some of the world's biggest sovereign wealth funds.
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You have millions of expats who have moved here.
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