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Dubai has only ten days of fresh food left after the closure of the Straits of Hormuz has cut the United Arab Emirates (UAE) off from all its imports, including food. In Abu Dhabi, with the prospect of the region becoming unliveable, real estate prices are also collapsing.

As bne IntelliNews reported, the Hormuz chokepoint could kill Dubai, a hub of investment and business in the region. The Gulf countries don’t have any water and don’t produce much food for their combined population of around 60mn people. Fresh products in particular like vegetables and fruit are almost all imported. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) closed the Straits of Hormuz to oil exports on March 2, but the embargo also effectively blocked all food imports at the same time.

The Emirates imports between 80% and 90% of its food, with roughly 70% of food shipments to Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries normally passing through the Strait of Hormuz on the 100- odd ships that traversed the Straits until a week ago.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Shouldn't have been an ally of the US and Israel.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why not? It's not like the true "Allies", the billionares of Dubai, will be affected by the food shortage. They will just fly off and abandon every worker and tenant (if any?) in dubai.

It's imoral, but the scumbags lose nothing.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Two wrongs don't make a right.

If nothing happens that society and its practices will never change and the pain will continue.

If the whole castle of cards collapses due to this, whilst it's a small consolation for the current slaves given the pain they'll endure, it's way more pain spared for would be future slaves.

Further, the scumbags will definitelly lose if the whole slave-using realestate-bubble empire whose value supports their wealth collapses back to nomads camel fucking in the desert.

[–] dude@lemmings.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

They’re not allies of the US nor Israel but just try to play being allies of everyone, just like Qatar, Turkey or India

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If you're hosting some other country's military bases you're either its Ally or its Vassal.

I can understand why they do it, but none the less there's no such thing as a free lunch.

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Spec Ops: The Line was a very good game.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Never finished it and won't.

Game directly tells you you can stop killing Civilians at any time by just not playing.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's kind of silly. I get where you're coming from, but since it's a video game that's telling a story with a beginning, middle, and end, and since the people are not real people in any sense of the word, wouldn't it make sense to just finish it to see how the story ends?

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Yeah. The story is on rails. It's not an RPG where you can choose the good path or the evil path. I can imagine feeling bad about playing the evil path in a game where you had the option not to do it. But, if you want to see the story in a linear game like that you have click the mouse in the way required to get to the next save point. Feeling superior about not finishing a game like that is like feeling superior because you read a book where the main character is an antihero, and you chose not to finish the book.

Besides, it's "deep" for a modern AAA shooter video game, but not particularly deep or upsetting in terms of storytelling.

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[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

You got it right.

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It's a food pipeline they need, none of them gas ones.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In a city of billionaires, 10 days of food is about enough for 1 days of food for one of them.

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[–] SpankyDoodle@eviltoast.org 9 points 1 day ago

Damn, one of my co-workers just left to go visit there. He had some serious reservations about going home for a couple weeks. I hope he makes it back okay…

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 49 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Explain to me how this doesn’t encourage a United bombing run on both Israel and the states.

They’re starving working class plebs like you and me right now. Something about the internal class war in the states makes me livid about that wherever it’s happening. Viscerally.

A handful of guys decide to shit on one another and the rest of us are supposed to bathe in the excremental splatter and like it. Why FFS?

These same assholes are supposed to be in power for the express purpose of shielding their people from said shit.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Explain to me how this doesn’t encourage a United bombing run on both Israel and the states.

Nukes. The US has a lot of fucking nukes. We've used them before, when a sane government was in control. If anyone bombs the US it will literally be the end of civilization.

That's not hyperbole. This orange fuck will absolutely let the nukes rip.

Israel also has a lot of nukes.

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[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

lol It's Dusell now I guess.

[–] 6stringringer@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 day ago (6 children)
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[–] Teknikal@anarchist.nexus 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shouldn't they be more worried about water hasn't Iran started targeting desalination plants that are 90% of the supply there (I think).

[–] starsoaked_lily@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 day ago (5 children)

yes, after the us attacked iran's desalination (which it depends on much less than other countries in the region do) opening the door to in-kind retaliation

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago
[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

Let them eat those stupid ass chocolate bars

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