Krystal Ball

But this is a relatively well-developed

educated country with a lot going for them.

They have natural resources, not just oil.

Obviously very strategic positioning in the globe.

That's why when Robert Pape says they have now emerged as a new fourth world power, I don't think that that is overstating the case whatsoever.

And so that's what makes it so difficult to see how this is resolved and why obviously the decision to get into this disastrous war was such a horrific, catastrophic mistake from the interests of the U.S.

empire perspective.

Because in order to bring it to a close, you are going to have to agree to something like what those 10 points from the Iranians are.

And I just I don't know if even Donald Trump, who is perhaps the greatest bullshit artist in history, if even he can sell that as some sort of a victory to his base in this country.

I mean, I would say it's more existential for UAE than it is for Israel.

I mean, Israel's nuclear arms, you know, they throw their weight around.

Obviously, they've still got our backing, etc.

UAE has been exposed as completely vulnerable.

I mean, this is basically sort of like a fake state to begin with.

And so they now that they're in this position.

are like, okay, how are Dubai and Abu Dhabi ever gonna come back so long as we have the specter of this same government in power that was hitting our high rise luxury hotels and all of the wealthy expats are fleeing and probably a lot of the indentured servant labor force, exploited labor force will also look for greener pastures as well.

So they feel that this is quite existential for them and I don't think that they're wrong about that.

So that's why they are now so committed

That they're the ones that went to the UN to try to pass this resolution through Security Council, which failed to open the Strait of Hormuz by any means necessary.

That was the provision they took, the resolution they took to the UN.