UAE's obsession with Mogadishu

[Che -Guevara]

The UAE has tasked Asmara to smooth relations with Mogadishu. Considering UAE has the ears of Addis Ababa, Asmara, Washington D.C and presence in Puntland and Somaliland, why does Mogadishu matter to them politically?

 

[maakhiri1]

yeah getting wierd

[Duufaan]

They are desperate. It is like a millionaire who scare that his poor neighbors will become billionaire one day. Uncontrolled panicke to maintain the status quo. Like Fircoon trying to kill each new born baby. It is not gone work.

[Old_Observer]

21 hours ago, maakhiri1 said:

yeah getting wierd

Very wierd. But that is how it always have been. fate of peoples countries determined by seemingly inocious things.

When it rains it pours. America, UAE, Saudi, even EGYpt as begging bowl,...storm for horn of Africa. Somalia is just lucky or unucky being the physical and one time moral horn of Africa.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Because the Turks the qataris the Brits the west ameica all have their hands in Mogadishu. The  UAE wants Mogadishu on its side by  anymeans necessary. Because qatar is to smart for the sacuudis and Emirates qatar is deep in bed with Iranian terrorists international jihadists 

[Che -Guevara]

3 hours ago, Xaaji Xunjuf said:

qatar is deep in bed with Iranian terrorists international jihadists 

Iran is UEA's second biggest trading partner in the region. Don't let them fool you.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Che remember when qatar said  they going to hold talks between Taliban and usa in Qatar. I dont trust qatar. Qatar is smarter than sacuudis and Emirates  when It comes to wallstreet and investing money stocks.

 

[Che -Guevara]

Xaaji,

 

I don't trust any of them. Americans are actually getting ready to start direct talks with the Taliban. They are  finally  accepting  the Taliban can't  be defeated. Qatar is better positioned  to host  those talks.

[Old_Observer]

11 hours ago, Che -Guevara said:

Xaaji,

 

I don't trust any of them. Americans are actually getting ready to start direct talks with the Taliban. They are  finally  accepting  the Taliban can't  be defeated. Qatar is better positioned  to host  those talks.

They already did one round. Talks will continue.

UAE and SAUDI are also competition. Qatar must have one big life saving secret they know and have kept it in safe place. That is the only way they survive. That secret must be big enough to affect US, Britain...with terrorism and related. Otherwise even Gaddafi could not survive alive.

 

[Che -Guevara]

SAUDI ARABIA PLANNED TO INVADE QATAR LAST SUMMER. REX TILLERSON’S EFFORTS TO STOP IT MAY HAVE COST HIM HIS JOB.

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Some Gulf watchers speculate that the incentive for the planned invasion may have been partly financial. Saudi Arabia’s “cradle to grave” welfare system relies on high oil prices, which plummeted in 2014 and have not fully recovered. Since the current king came to power in 2015, the country has spent more than a third of its $737 billion in reserves, and last year, the Saudi economy entered a painful recession. In response, the government has looked for ways to raise money, including by selling shares in the state-owned oil company, Saudi Aramco.

“It’s unsustainable,” said Bruce Riedel, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute and 30-year CIA officer, in a lecture last November. “In the three years since [King Salman] ascended to the throne, one third of Saudi Arabia’s reserves have already been spent. You don’t need to have an MBA from the Wharton school to figure out what that means six years from now.”

If the Saudis had succeeded in seizing Doha, they would potentially have been able to gain access to the country’s $320 billion sovereign wealthfund. In November of last year, months after the plan collapsed, the Saudi crown prince rounded up and detained dozens of his relatives in the Ritz-Carlton Riyadh, forcing them to sign over billions in privately held assets. The government justified the detentions as a corruption crackdown, but it allowed the state to recoup billions in assets for government use.