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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي
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The anniversary of Jamal's murder looms heavy. I can almost feel it in my body. It's so heavy I can barely stand.
I have a gratitude journal that I fill every night. I write within it notes about what I feel grateful for. What would one feel grateful for on the eve of such a heavy anniversary?
I feel grateful that I knew Jamal.
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Quick thread about the UAE and its core unsustainabilities:
The UAE has a population of 10 million. Only 1 million out of these are Emarati citizens. The other 9 million are foreigners, some of whom have lived there for a couple generations.
If things remain the same, the UAE is fine. It's rich and its current economic model can provide a very nice welfare system for 1 million citizens. And most of the 1 million are happy to exchange safety and prosperity for political quietism. *If things stay the same*.
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي
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"The US stood behind every Saudi king historically and so it'll continue to stand behind MBS even after Trump". There are actual people pushing this argument. By this logic if I keep up my current weight loss for another three years I'll weigh 5 kgs. History is not linear, folks.
2019 is not 2001.
2019 is not 1991.
And 2021 will not be 2019.
In 1991 Saudi Arabia got massive US support in response to Saddam's aggression. It was a great period for US-Saudi relations. In 2001, again US-Saudi relations actually improved.
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي
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The center of gravity of Arab tyranny is in Riyadh and that is where we need to concentrate our firepower. The Saudi regime is the most serious bulwark against Arab freedom and no Arab revolution is safe so long the Saudi regime is empowered.
If you're working on freedom in Bahrain or Yemen or Egypt or Sudan etc, you need to reserve a fair amount of your firepower to Riyadh. Our persecutors are reliant on support from Riyadh.
What about the UAE? The UAE is that little jockey hiding behind the large camel. Without the camel, it's weak and exposed. The camel is the Saudi regime.
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