Tag: UAE

Fossil Fuel Industry

COP28 Advisor Quits Over Alleged UAE Oil and Gas Deal-Making

Former Marshallese President Hilda Heine

When a Fossil Fuel Nation takes over COP28 what can you expect? It’s like the  Tobacco Industry taking over the QUIT campaign and declaring they are the biggest promoters of anti-smoking while promoting VAPING.

United Nations Climate Change Conference advisory board member Hilda Heine resigned on Friday, citing reports that the Emirati oil executive presiding over COP28 has been busy pushing for fossil fuel deals in the run-up to the event.

Source: COP28 Advisor Quits Over Alleged UAE Oil and Gas Deal-Making

Trump, Trumpland Revealed

Arms Sale to UAE Proceeds Despite U.S. Probe Into Wagner Ties

Business befor Politics as far as National Security is concerned for Trump

U.S. intelligence agencies received reports indicating that one of the U.S.’s closest Middle Eastern partners had signed a collaborative agreement with a sanctioned Russian mercenary group operating in Libya, according to a current U.S. intelligence official and two former officials with knowledge of the matter. U.S. intelligence agencies have been looking into whether the United Arab Emirates is helping to finance the Libya operations of the Russian Wagner Group. Both the UAE and Wagner have intervened to support Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, who has tried to overrun the United Nations-backed government in Tripoli.

Arms Sale to UAE Proceeds Despite U.S. Probe Into Wagner Ties
Middle East

Was F-35 Stealth Jet Sale to Arab UAE at heart of deal with Israel and Trump? Did Netanyahu Lie?
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BBC Monitoring translates a report in the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot that alleges a high UAE official told its correspondent that “The aircraft are part of the deal.” That is, an arms deal was part of the agreement between the two countries, and that the US would sell Abu Dhabi F-35s was openly specified. So the United Arab Emirates made the treaty with Israel not to bring peace to the Middle East but to ensure that it is armed to the teeth. The UAE has a citizen population of only about a million (plus 8 million guest workers), so it is the Rhode Island of the Middle East. The country has enormous oil wealth, however, and has used it to begin asserting itself throughout the region, from Libya to Yemen. It joined Saudi Arabia in an air war on the Shiite Houthi rebels of Yemen, and Abu Dhabi clearly sees its sophisticated fighter jets as one key to regional dominance.

Was F-35 Stealth Jet Sale to Arab UAE at heart of deal with Israel and Trump? Did Netanyahu Lie?
Israel, Uncategorized

Don’t be Hoodwinked by Trump’s UAE-Israel “Peace Deal”

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