from technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to world@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 23:42
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/65080969
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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Good.
Who do you think will go hungry first?
The powerful or their slaves?
Goddamnit you’re right. Nevermind. Hopefully the elite there will evaporate in a big hellfire.
The slaves for sure, but it also creates a situation where the powerful may not be giving enough food to their security forces, and their security forces turn on them, joining the slaves in outright rebellion.
Not that this will bring more food in, but it could result in some of those “powerful” people suddenly not being so powerful.
But how many toilets do they have left?
That Dubai some time, just not enough
If they’re unable to reopen the strait, perhaps they can force Trump to halt attacking Iran by stopping their own fossil fuel production. Something oil embargo.
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.
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.
with the context from the rest of your comment, the fact you still believe this is astounding.
Oh NO! RICH people live in Dubai!
-The Media!
But let’s just send our food over to them. Surely it will trickle down this time!
I don't know what's scarier. The fact that half the commenters didn't read that far into the article or that they couldn't figure out for themselves that fresh food is not all food.
What you say as a piece of shit is swirling around the toilet? Doo-doo, bye! Or watching Trump & Netanyahu make out… Du… Bi?!?
No need to brag about it, Dubai.
Let them eat those stupid ass chocolate bars