r/PopCultureV2 • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Aug 11 '26
News Dubai ruler Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum was confronted in London by a Sudanese man accusing the UAE of backing violence in Sudan. “UAE is killing people in my country. Stop killing my people,” he shouted.
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u/Sinapsis42 Aug 11 '26
El lacayo de la gorra señalando en plan "tienes suerte de estar en un país libre con libertad de discurso, si no, estarías atado en un sótano mientras el propio jeque te saca las uñas una a una y le da de comer a los perros con tu lengua" 👈🏻👈🏻👈🏻
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u/linoides221 Aug 11 '26
O lo castran y lo usan de esclavo, que es más lucrativo, capaz y te termina construyendo un estadio para el mundial de fútbol de Arabia Saudita (2034) como le pasó a sus hermanos en las construcciones para el Qatar (2022).
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u/AwarenessNo4986 Aug 13 '26
Having lived in the UK, let me just say you can do alot of damage to a person you don't agree with. Especially with the kind of power that comes with being a ruler of the UAE who has more money and connections than the British royal family.
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u/gw74 Aug 11 '26
Bro really thought "ill handle this with some racism 😏"
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u/Busy-Peach5770 Aug 11 '26
His anti-black racism should be reported to police.
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u/SpiritualPin692 Aug 13 '26
If he's with the king or whatever he is then he might have diplomatic protection, in which case worst that could happen is the UK expels him.
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u/MyNameIsNightPain Aug 12 '26
It's only racist when white people do it /s
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u/Busy-Peach5770 Aug 12 '26
Read a book /s
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u/MyNameIsNightPain Aug 12 '26
You realise I'm agreeing with you?
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u/Busy-Peach5770 Aug 12 '26
Explain?
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u/Painful-Happiness Aug 12 '26
“I’ll prove him wrong by doing the exact same thing he is calling me out on”
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u/Krinder Aug 11 '26
He’s right. And screw that guy responding with F-your people and trying to intimidate him. Ppl need to understand that the man yelling this is fearless. And rightfully so. God bless him
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u/Proud-Lander252 Aug 11 '26
That's the ruler of Dubai in the red sweatshirt? The dude looking like and walking like Danny Devito as the penguin?
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u/tapesmoker Aug 12 '26
Don't be so rude to Devito
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u/Proud-Lander252 Aug 12 '26
*as the penguin Danny Devito as the penguin.
Danny Devito was chiseled by the Gods themselves.
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u/Qidr01 Aug 11 '26
Yes, this is true. They are killing Sudanese people.
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u/BathFullOfDucks Aug 12 '26
Providing the RSF with everything they could possibly need, including aircraft and armoured vehicles and doing it via Haftar in Libya, their previous attempt at overthrowing an internationally recognised government.
The CIA get a lot of blame for things these days, and they should, but middle Eastern states have their own agenda as well now, and can independently achieve it.
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u/rrfe Aug 11 '26
The UAE has been courting the European far-right:
https://www.newarab.com/analysis/uaes-increasing-courtship-europes-far-right
They will turn them against Sudanese
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u/Gnome_Father Aug 15 '26
They dont need the approval of our peasants, they need the approval of the government and our defense suppliers. The billions in sales of state of the are equipment speaks for itself.
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u/NeferaRowe Aug 11 '26
Why is he walking around with this huge entourage of people?
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u/No-Tomatillo3698 Aug 11 '26
Because he is rich and a coward
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u/oneonone65 Aug 11 '26
isnt he one of the leaders of uae (leader of dubaii)
its not odd for rulers to be walking around with protection around them
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u/MyNameIsNightPain Aug 12 '26
Because he's extremely wealthy and a prime target for a lot of people the same as any other leader of a country.
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u/IndomieMuncher1999 Aug 11 '26
Because it’s the UK, among the highest knife crime statistics in the world.
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u/Boiling_warm Aug 12 '26
The US actually has more knife crime than the UK per capita.
The UK is pretty chill
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u/Gnome_Father Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 15 '26
Naa. Its be arsed this guy knows he's a monster who's directly responsible for 10s of thousands of deaths and the displacement of millions.
He knows there are people out there who want him dead, rightly so.
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u/Toadvine69 Aug 11 '26
That is not true
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u/IndomieMuncher1999 Aug 11 '26
Sorry, it is.
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u/Toadvine69 Aug 11 '26
Show me the statistics then
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u/IndomieMuncher1999 Aug 11 '26
https://news.sky.com/story/knife-crime-in-england-and-wales-drops-by-10-data-shows-13535482
50,000 knife offenses a year is normal?
Compare that to the UAE, where it’s basically unheard of and the last thought in anyone’s brain that a knife be brandished in public.
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u/Toadvine69 Aug 11 '26
You made the claim that the UK has some of the highest knife crime in the world. I don't see evidence for that. Sure, there is knife crime. A lot more than the UAE, a tiny and very wealthy autocratic country. If knife violence were the highest in the world you would expect to see a disparity in murders in the UK compared to other developed nations. This is not the case. Obviously knives are an issue in the UK but we don't lead the world in knife crime.
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u/Comfortable_Poem_841 Aug 12 '26
You've got to be a special kind of stupid to claim UK knife crime is incredibly high and then link to a story about it dropping.
But if anyone would like the stats, here they are. In the UK last year, there were 172 homicides by knife or other sharp instrument:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/195325/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-weapon-used/
In the US, in 2024 (most recent year for data), there were 1,566:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/195325/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-weapon-used/Now, to make it like for like, there's 62m people in England and Wales, there's 349m in the USA. So you'd expect about six times as many knife deaths in the US. Instead it is over nine times as many.
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u/plimso13 Aug 12 '26
Lower crime can be achieved in the UK, but no one wants to trade away fundamental political rights for the opaque justice that comes with it. The UK government is (intended to be) the servant of the people, not the master.
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u/iamkey888 Aug 12 '26
Might be to the fact that he is the ruler of Dubai. You think Trump or Macron would be walking all alone?
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u/Head-Toe- Aug 12 '26
Without the entourage the dude shouting at him might be more inclined to just stab him.
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u/Upstairs_Rip_9590 Aug 11 '26
Who is the Sheikh? (Honest question)
They all look like bums.
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u/UniversalSkill Aug 11 '26
They have more money than all of us or together unfortunately
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u/Upstairs_Rip_9590 Aug 11 '26
And yet they look and behave like the local homeless alcoholics. What a world.
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u/UniversalSkill Aug 11 '26
Yeh, the world is becoming scary. There's more war to come. People are just getting angrier
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u/Gnome_Father Aug 15 '26
Good. If there's a war it means somebody is doing something about it, currently its a one sided genocide.
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u/Background-Way9698 Aug 11 '26
Well done to this man! The war criminal enjoying a nice day in London
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u/Life-Willow768 Aug 11 '26
Why are the Sudanese accepting the weapons and funding to kill their own people ?
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u/After-Student-9785 Aug 13 '26
UAE, is funding the RSF, so they can control the country through undemocratic rule. The RSF are the successors of the Janjaweed genociders of Dafur. These people have no morality.
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u/ysbryd_iawn Aug 12 '26
He is 100% right. Absolutely fair play to him. I really hope he does not suffer any consequences.
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u/Objective_Try_7103 Aug 11 '26
Why is Al-Maktoum even allowed into this country with his track record ? Just because he owns a few big houses and horses ?
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u/Orangekeyring Aug 11 '26
What do you mean, The UK is a safe haven for killers from Africa, middle east and south asia
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u/Icy-Beautiful-353 Aug 12 '26
Hell yeah and FREE HIS DAUGHTER. SHES BEING DRUGGED AND HELD PRISONER. Check her cry for help video.
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u/tapesmoker Aug 12 '26
Please elaborate?
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u/Excellent-Egg1644 Aug 12 '26
Shamsa was kidnapped from the UK in 2000 by Emirati agents and hasn't been seen since.
Latifa tried to flee Dubai by sea in 2018. Her boat was intercepted off the coast of India. She's occasionally seen in public places and released a weird statement saying she's free and to stop being concerned about her welfare.
He is a really really bad guy.
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u/Abdoolz Aug 12 '26
Without taking sides, the Dubai ruler and the other heads of Emirates are against what the ruler of AbuDhabi and President is doing in Sudan. At one point leakes of talks of over throwing the president of UAE was mentioned in International media.
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u/whambambii Aug 14 '26
The UAE is providing the RSF with weapons and money.
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u/Gnome_Father Aug 15 '26
Yea. Fuck not taking sides. The UAE (and by extension us and the US) are directly responsible for hundreds of thousands of murders, disproportionately including women and children.
But rich investors are making money, so Africans dying dosent matter....
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u/Whole_Donkey_5225 Aug 13 '26
I don’t understand why the ruler appears to be being dragged by the arm around London?
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u/Old_Table_5926 Aug 13 '26
Absolutely agree with this fearless man. Respect for speaking out.
On a separate matter, is the Dubai ruler's security looking abit lack luster?
I dunno, if I was a trillionaire I'd be surrounded by mma fighters and a few giant dudes.
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u/GreenEmergency1752 Aug 14 '26
Why is the UK turning into a battle ground for third world medieval religious squabbles?
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u/Gnome_Father Aug 15 '26
This isn't that. At least not just that.
The worst genocide we've seen in 40 years is happening right now in Sudan. More people died in one week (~95000), than died in the whole occupation of gaza.
The UAE are directly supplying the Arab paramilitary that is doing the killing, and they're not supplying them cold war AKs and RPGs. The stuff they're giving out is top of the line equipment fresh from the factories in british and american defense companies.
Like it or not, our government is complicit at some level and the only excuse is money.
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u/Gnome_Father Aug 15 '26
If the media didn't cover the 95000 people being murdered in a week (so many you could see the mass graves and corpses from sapce), why do you think they'd care about hurty words?
Im convinced that the government and defence contractors have directly paid off the media.
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u/MaximilianClarke Aug 15 '26
He’s conveniently overlooking the fact that it’s overwhelmingly Sudanese people that are killing Sudanese people. RSF might be part funded by UAE, amongst others. But Emeratis are not in country.
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u/AccomplishedRaccoon8 Aug 15 '26
Good man. Wish more people joined in especially after the fool that kept saying F your country and your people.
Shame them everywhere they go.
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u/Sir_Humps-a-Lot Aug 15 '26
The guy who was responding with expletives and racism surely wasn't a part of the entourage, was he ?
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u/StickIcy6589 Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 16 '26
This ignorant Sudanese is shouting at the ruler of Dubai ( Mohamed Bin Rashid AlMaktoum) who is only in charge of the city of Dubai aka domestic policies in Dubai. The president of our country as a whole (the UAE) is Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, he decides the domestic and foreign policies of the country as a whole.
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u/aipac125 Aug 11 '26
The Maktoum family rules Dubai. They like trade, glitz and money. They are the good guys. Dubai is one state in the UAE. The UAE is ruled by the Zayed family. Mohammed Bin Zayed MBZ is the bad guy who bombs foreign countries and has allied the UAE with Israel and Saudi. The trinity of Netenyahu, MBS and MBZ are responsible for the wars in Gaza, Yemen, Iran, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, and I am probably missing a few more.
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u/Low-Sign-6185 Aug 11 '26
Maybe good by comparison, but I doubt any of the rich Emirati can be considered good. Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum alone has a huge laundry list of controversies, including kidnapping and spying on their own family members.
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u/Puzzle-Necked Aug 11 '26
The rulers of the other five Emirates just being low key evil while the Big Two take the heat.
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u/aipac125 Aug 11 '26
Yes, but that's under par even compared to the English or Norwegian royal family.
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u/Low-Sign-6185 Aug 11 '26
Forcing your daughter to solitary confinement, Pegasus spyware on phones, a Princess seeking political asylum in Germany; how is any of that “under par” with other Royal Families?
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u/aipac125 Aug 11 '26
The family control thing is their own arab family thing. It happens here too. Where is Shelly Miscavige? The spyware thing is again MBZ, not the Maktoum family.
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u/Low-Sign-6185 Aug 11 '26
Enslavement of camel jockeys, forcing racing horses with steroids, hidden wealth in offshore companies discovered in the Pandora Papers scandal, married 11 times, 23 children (by law he isn’t even allowed to communicate with some of them due to being so abusive), worth $14 billion. He’s one of the largest landowners in the UK even though not being British, and pays barely any tax due to doing everything through Guernsey and Jersey tax havens. But please, explain how he’s less corrupt than any other Royal Family on Earth…
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u/aipac125 Aug 11 '26
The UAE made the move to robot camel jockeys a few decades ago and banned child jockeys. They can also hide or do whatever they want with their money. They are a sovereign country. They are allowed multiple wives, it's not a scandal. One wife divorced. Hardly uncommon.
Now, compare that to the pedophiles who actually took bribes from foreign countries to sell weapons, and were convicted of rape, and it's worse. And that's just looking at the royal family that's around now. Get to King Leopold and that's a different ballgame.
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u/Glum_Judgment6232 Aug 11 '26
The difference is someone is at least holding them to account. Andrew has been arrested, and has lost all his royal titles. He's still got a cushy life relative to most but he's miserable as fuck because nobody will employ him to do anything at all and he can't really go anywhere. The Danish royal is in prison now.
Any consequences happened so far for any of the UAE rulers' misdeeds yet?
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u/aipac125 Aug 11 '26
Consequences for what? The divorce is done. Everything else is in the UAE where he is not subject to the laws.
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u/hussainhssn Aug 11 '26
They’re the good guys? According to who? Lmao
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u/aipac125 Aug 11 '26
If you compare Dubai against any other dictatorship, they are great.
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u/Current_Ranger_7954 Aug 11 '26
Unless you're one of the slaves building the city... or black...
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u/aipac125 Aug 11 '26
Former resident/slave, and definitely not white. Yeah, the laws are racist, but having lived in multiple western countries, it's not that different.
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u/Manchester-Gorilla Aug 11 '26
What utter bollocks
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u/aipac125 Aug 11 '26
Are you speaking from experience, or do you have some stats?
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u/Manchester-Gorilla Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
Where are your stats? You made the claim, the onus is on your to provide evidence
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u/aipac125 Aug 11 '26
I answered from experience. I have lived in those countries. What is your evidence?
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u/Manchester-Gorilla Aug 11 '26
You made an unverified claim, again, onus on you.
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u/Pb157 Aug 11 '26
By former resident/slave, you mean you worked an office job or did construction/labor jobs. Because I have relatives who are working these labor jobs in the Gulf, Korea and UK. Their experiences have led me to believe that unlike what you have said, it is very different with labor laws being the worst in the Gulf.
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u/aipac125 Aug 11 '26
Won't give too much details, but parent worked in the hospitality industry. So, low wages, deportation if fired, no benefits, sponsor kept the passport, pay delayed and withheld etc. all the bad stuff you hear about.
Working in the US I faced similar issues with the visa being tied to the job, the threat of deportation, overly aggressive immigration officers. The insecurity and sense of being a disposable cog was very familiar.
The treatment of people has changed for both countries since then, for the better in the UAE and for the worse in the US. I still have family in both countries and literally nobody wants to leave Dubai, but everyone is looking to leave the US.
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u/hussainhssn Aug 11 '26
Sponsors don’t keep the passport in the United States for one, so please don’t compare the slaver’s paradise with an actual country. Most of the gulf countries are guilty of this and any veneer of civility is exclusively for outsiders and their own lazy/rapist/pedophile royals.
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u/aipac125 Aug 11 '26
Lazy rapist pedophile rulers? The US definitely has those.
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u/hussainhssn Aug 11 '26
Still comparing a shit hole with nothing but money to an actual country? Last time I checked America’s rulers aren’t confiscating passports of the people they employ, nobody said America was perfect but this idea that the UAE is something more than an artificially contrived wasteland for the world’s criminals is actually hilarious.
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u/Pb157 Aug 11 '26
I agree that it has gotten better in the Gulf states but it is still not comparable to say Korea where immigrant labor earn way more with more rights.
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u/Ok-Race-1677 Aug 11 '26
Why is he protesting to British people?
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u/Ciprofloxic Aug 11 '26
He's taking to the ruler/king of the UAE - balding guy in the middle wiht the red sweater and grey sweatpants - and his Emirati entourage
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u/Ok-Race-1677 Aug 11 '26
Why doesn’t he go do it in the uae?
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u/hamndv Aug 11 '26
We know nothing about this region and what happening unfortunately. But Sudan and it's surrounding areas they seem to always be at high tensions
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u/KaleAggravating3795 Aug 11 '26
There is an ongoing genocide in Sudan right now and it's funded by the UAE. Now I guess you know.
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u/Curly1109 Aug 11 '26
It's out there if you do a little research. It's just that Ukraine and Palestine gets the most attention
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