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Dubai's economic model depends on American protection, Gulf oil geography, tourism, finance, logistics, and a reputation for neutral safety; Iranian attacks destroy that reputation.
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American Protection
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"But given past actions from the Israelis, this is fairly consistent with what they've done. So we can assume that this is something the..."
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"...the world. And Dubai, for the longest time, was flourishing under American protection. And Dubai said to the world, listen, we're like Switzerland. We're..."
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"At one point, the rich people in Dubai were willing to pay. They were willing to pay about $25,000 US dollars just to get..."
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"...desalination that they don't have their own water supply naturally and american protection uh you say correctly they were built in open desert with..."
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"...is part of the first island chain. And so, they're under American protection, right? And China doesn't have half the military capacity to actually..."
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"Okay? Israel does not actually need American protection. If the entire Middle East got together... If the entire Middle East got together and attacked..."
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Piers brings Jiang on because two earlier predictions already landed and a third appears to be unfolding: Trump won, war with Iran came, and now the question is whether America can survive the kind...
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Jiang starts from the harshest frame available: Iran is not one more crisis but the hinge on which the next half-century turns.
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Iran's missile strike is read not as a failed attack, but as a demonstration of asymmetrical strategy: choose the battlefield, satisfy four goals at once, and make the dominant power fight on terms it...
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