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11 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Tahnoon's new Friends and Frenemies Frequent Flyer plan is going well. The UAE wants to be a global power by 2030. carnegieendowment.org/sada/86130
The Nahyan family have high aspirations and are starting to memorialize this goals. Some are public some are secret. MBz will soon take over from his ailing father and Tahnoon will become Crown Prince. khaleejtimes.com/news/governmen…
There are actually a lot of noble goals in Abu Dhabi. Number one of course, being preserving family control over the remaining oil and future investment income. Something political islam disagrees with. u.ae/en/more/uae-fu…
The Nahyan biggest success has been violently or secretly extinguishing every Arab democracy created after Arab Spring. Yet islamic and regional groups operate successfully at asymmetric levels to frustrate the "strong man" plan.

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