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Keep your eye on Beacon Red. A for profit spy agency hiring a lot of expats supporting the Emirati dictatorship and their regional #fuckery and "strong man" agenda. What could possibly go wrong?
It appears that the UAE is shifting from petrodollars to war dollars as they invest family money in weapons, intel and offensive capability as a business model. The ultimate mercenary company marketing as a defense business. https://www.army-technology.com/features/can-edge-help-the-uae-build-a-new-market/
The ultimate goal is to survive any threat from Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood. And of course internal threats that dissidents. An offtake from the desperate need to outsource skills and labor, around 8:1 with only around a million actual citizens. https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/12/22/uae-unrelenting-harassment-dissidents-families
Their dumber slower richer dictator brother from another mother also has a serious problems with dissidents. So bad they have to kidnap and kill them just to keep everyone in line. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/how-saudi-arabia-makes-dissidents-disappear
The King of Saudi Arabia just announced that he will not normalize relationships with Israel, creating a crack in Jared's "Peace" Plan. Trump's fawning devotion to his post indictment bolthole is not quite working out. And where is our Iran war Donald? https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/02/07/what-i-told-jared-kushner-about-his-middle-east-peace-plan-pub-81010
The consolation prize may be US support for a UAE/KSA coup attempt inside Qatar much like Haftar's run at the GNA. Rex Tillerson and a bunch of hackers ruined everything for Jared the last time the UAE tried to ratfuck Qatar. https://english.alarabiya.net/en/features/2020/05/07/After-bizarre-coup-rumors-is-Qatar-s-ex-PM-plotting-against-the-Emir-
Saudi efforts to "normalize" the relationship between dictators may be a Trojan Horse to replace the rulers. Same drill in Jordan where the brothers are being groomed and incentivized to replace the King. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/coronavirus-qatar-saudi-arabia-coup-middle-east-trump-uae-a9501536.html
Why is this important? These nations are petro-family colonial era fiefdoms aka tribes with no accountability or transparency. Yet they consistently seek to suppress their people, destabilize democracies and neighbors simply to to survive. http://graphics.wsj.com/saudi-arabia-family-tree/
Within these families are rifts that drive each to create small cliques and businesses. Many have monopolies on state services through cutout investment banks. Their history of internecine warfare rarely surfaces but it makes for a fascinating read https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7094169/Grandfather-prospective-Newcastle-owner-killed-brother.html
Backward regions faced with sudden resource wealth held by one family are all faced with the same problem: How to stay alive, develop their region and not create a demand for democracy that would unseat them. Read the story of Sheik Shakhbut and Abu Dhabi. http://whynationsfail.com/blog/2012/9/25/the-strange-tale-of-sheik-shakhbut.html
And also read the very real story of MBS and Khashoggi. A man who pretended to let women drive while ordering the kidnapping and brutal butchering of a moderate dissident.
"None of the newly convicted people were identified Monday." https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/saudi-arabian-court-issues-final-verdict-8-people-death-journalist-n1239468
"None of the newly convicted people were identified Monday." https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/saudi-arabian-court-issues-final-verdict-8-people-death-journalist-n1239468
and lets wrap up this thread. Beacon Red is "Edge" which is run by Faisal Al Bannai, the same person who created DarkMatter https://www.consultancy-me.com/news/2476/uae-defence-group-ceo-faisal-al-bannai-sells-cyber-consultancy-darkmatter Yes the same company that help target dissidents for MBS to kill. https://www.dw.com/en/will-the-israel-deal-pave-the-way-for-emirati-repression/a-54636945
Read and weep. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spying-raven/
Read and weep. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spying-raven/
