One of the few upsides of Trump cocksucking Netanyahu's border expansion war is that it fucked over a lot of rich people.

Hopefully some of the dumb as bricks Republican billionaires remember how incapable of loyalty Trump is during the next few elections. Imagine Exxon Mobil endorsing the DNC lmao.

Never understood the fascination myself. Dust bowl with no natural beauty. Authoritarian government. So hot you can't even go outside for half of the year and worst of all legalised slave labour. Wouldn't live there if you paid me.

Dubai was always an economy built on a bubble. As much as I hate how they treat foreign laborers and as much as I hate their current leaders, I have some respect for how far they were able to get with this model.

But ultimately, they are a country with little land, little water, terrible weather, and surviving on a vast expat population that has no path to citizenship and will always just see it as a destination to milk for as much money as possible.

I don't see how such a model could ever be seen as sustainable in the long run.

Couldn't've happened to a better group of people. Free your slaves and maybe I'll have some sympathy

Dear Iran, please bomb the currently under construction: Disneyland, Abu Dhabi south of Dubai. No one wants that shit.

Every dark cloud has a silver lining.

It'll be fun touring the ruins of Dubai in a few years, after the slave revolt, the looting, and everyone who had somewhere else to go has returned home.

What happens if their tourism fails and Iran destroys their oil/gas infrastructure? Back to pearl diving?

I do believe that as a result of the war that Dubai as well as most of the gulf states are done. It’s no longer safe to travel or to invest money in them when a $50k drone can blow up your lambo or slave camp to build another stupid waste of water and materials.

Aren't they pretty much unimaginably rich? I'm sure they'll be fine.