"The UAE’s role in Sudan is not an anomaly. It is part of a coherent, well-financed, and regionally expansive project: a subimperialist agenda that combines economic extraction, authoritarian alliance-building, and counterrevolutionary politics under the cover of diplomatic sophistication and global partnerships."

by Husam Mahjoub: https://spectrejournal.com/uaes-subimperialism-in-sudan/

#Emirates #RSF #oilAndGas #interference #allies #Dubai #AbuDhabi #UAE #salafists #mercenaries #stateViolence #imperialism #subImperialism #fossilFuels #civilWar #PersianGulf #Gulf #geopolitics #Sudan #LNG #military #longRead #Harvard #Wimbledon #ManchesterCity #foreignInfluence #arms #armsTrade #normalisation #SaudiArabia #weapons #HusamMahjoub #UK #Britain #foreignPolicy

"From North Africa to the Gulf, the UAE has aggressively expanded its counter-revolutionary strategy in the wake of the Arab Spring"
by Andreas Krieg: https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/abu-dhabi-built-axis-secessionists-across-region-how 🧵

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Long read: How a peripheral state can leverage its wealth, strategic geography and alliances to exert outsized influence on regional and global affairs

"How the UAE can simultaneously be both a subject of imperialism and an agent of imperialist practices within its spheres of influence while challenging traditional imperialist actors": https://www.tni.org/en/article/the-emerging-sub-imperial-role-of-the-united-arab-emirates-in-africa

@israel @geography 🧵

#geography #CivilWar #Africa #Emirates #oilAndGas #internationalTrade #interference #allies #Houthis #MiddleEast #RedSea #Dubai #AbuDhabi #UAE #Yemen #MuslimBrothers #terrorism #counterTerrorism #salafists #mercenaries #stateViolence #imperialism #fossilFuels #civilWar #PersianGulf #Gulf #geopolitics #hegemony #MAE #Sudan #Egypt #MENA #geoStrategy #sanctions #LNG #military #nuclear #power #longRead #lobbying #foreignPolicy #USA #Libya #influence #development #revolvingDoor #revolvingDoors #Clinton #Trump #Harvard #Wimbledon #ManchesterCity #foreignInfluence #arms #armsTrade #normalisation #SaudiArabia

The United Arab Emirates commission assassinations to combat their political opponents. Since 2015: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Z51MTI9sbFY

(Featuring the villain Mohammed Dahlan.)

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