Title: An overview of the Saudi Arabia-United Arab Emirates rivalry in the Middle East and Africa
Overview of the influence of the two actors Saudi Arabia (KSA= Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
States with a predominant Saudi influence over that of the UAE (order of importance)
United-Arab-Emirates (UAE)
States with a predominant Emirati influence over that of the KSA (order of importance = diplomatic/political/military sectors then economic)
Rebel groups supported financially, economically, diplomatically and militarily by the UAE
Other rebel or terrorist groups fought with Emirati aid
States where Emirati or Saudi influence is limited, or equal + States not concerned
II- The means of influence of the two actors
■■ Economic and financial influence (investments, economic aid), calculated in billions of dollars (No pictogram = low economic influence, trade, and investment)
-> Official figures and press articles, does not take into account hidden funding)(Black = KSA, Red = UAE)
★★ Military and security influence
•· Diplomatic influence, taking into account political proximity, exchanges and visits, as well as alliances/agreements
Legal and illegal gold exports to the UAE (in B$s)
III- Signs of a regional confrontation KSA
Member states of a new tacit alliance with KSA since December 2025 (bilateral rapprochement, regular , position opposed to the UAE)
UAE States & rebel groups that have been part of a tacit alliance with the UAE for the past five years (regular meetings, Emirati f
Somalia and Saudi Arabia sign military and defense cooperation agreement deepening bilateral ties.
Ever since Israel recognition of Somaliland, KSA has stepped up its support of the Somalian government and sliding away from their old genocidal partner UAE.
Various reports of protests across Saudi Arabia against MbS and his connection with the American/Israeli #pedophile#Epstein.
I can not find any reports on social media or news sources other than some telegram channels.
I'm afraid I can not verify them at the moment since censorship in KSA is extreme and any report of anti government protests means long term prisons & even death.
Saudi Arabian Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman stated at a closed-door briefing in Washington on Friday that if President Trump does not carry out his threats against #Iran, the power of the ayatollahs will only be strengthened.
This was reported by Axios, citing four sources who attended the meeting.
This directly contradicts Saudi Arabia's public statements, in which it warned the US against launching a strike on Iran
Who could have thought that #Iran and Saudi Arabia agreeing on anything, least about Yemen.
Iranian News sources claim that IRI's foreign minister spoke on the phone with KSA's FM about the current situation in Yemen and the "need for stability".
It sounds like #KSA is afraid of the ever growing cosines between UAE & #Israel and the role #UAE playing in both #Yemen and South #Sudan.
🔺Phone call between Araqchi and Saudi counterpart
🔹 The Foreign Minister and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan discussed bilateral relations and regional and international developments in a phone call on Sunday evening.
🔹 In this phone call, issues of Iran-Saudi Arabia bilateral relations were discussed and views were exchanged.
🔹 Araqchi, while referring to the developments in southern Yemen, emphasized the need for the unity and integrity of that country and the necessity of implementing the roadmap.
🔹 The Saudi Foreign Minister, while emphasizing the importance of continuing consensus and cooperation among regional countries to preserve peace and stability, emphasized the need to hold the Zionist regime accountable.
🔺تماس تلفنی عراقچی و همتای عربستانی
🔹 وزیر امور خارجه و امیرفیصل بن فرحان وزیر امور خارجه عربستان سعودی، عصر یکشنبه در یک تماس تلفنی درباره روابط دوجانبه و تحولات منطقهای و بینالمللی گفتگو کردند.
🔹 در این تماس تلفنی، موضوعات روابط دوجانبه ایران-عربستان سعودی مورد بحث و تبادل نظر قرار گرفت.
🔹 عراقچی ضمن اشاره به تحولات جنوب یمن بر لزوم وحدت و یکپارچگی آن کشور و ضرورت اجرای نقشه راه تاکید کرد.
🔹 وزیر امور خارجه عربستان ضمن تاکید بر اهمیت تداوم همفکری و همکاری کشورهای منطقه برای صیانت از صلح و ثبات، بر ضرورت پاسخگو کردن رژیم صهیونیستی تاکید کرد.
UAE-backed Hadhrami Elite Forces have captured the city of Seiyun in the Hadhramaut region, eastern Yemen, from the Saudi-backed Hadhramaut Tribal Alliance.
Alright, so as I promised yesterday I've spent much of my day writing up my thoughts about the 2024 Democratic Party National Convention, and what I learned from observing it. Furthermore, as I promised you yesterday, I don't think what I have to say is going to make liberals high on "unity" vibes very happy, but I also don't really give a fuck because I'm just here to call balls and strikes while speaking truth (as I understand it) to power; and that's never going to change.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to say everything I had to say in a single post, and breakdown between sections didn't come in easy 5,000 character blocks, so this is going to be three posts, published one after another - sorry folks, it's either this or just taking the material directly to my website and I already did that once this week.
Finally I'm going to publish a bunch of source links underneath this whole thing; I would encourage low-information Stans caught in their feels to peruse those links before they try to call me a liar. You don't have to agree with my analysis, but if you start insulting my integrity because you have no idea what you're talking about, I will be hostile and you can expect rain. I didn't want to write this, but I feel like the shitshow that was this year's DNC forced my hand.
On the subject of foreign policy, 2020's criticisms of Trump's "race for a war with Iran" have been replaced with celebrations of Biden's escalating military actions against Iranian-linked groups and admonishing Trump for being too soft on Iran, here in 2024. After decrying Saudi Arabia's disastrous war in Yemen and promising to turn the country into a "pariah" in it's 2020 platform, the Dem Party touts Biden's plans to normalize relations between the KSA and Israel; which is both an extension of Trump era policy and entirely unsurprising after Biden lifted his ban on providing Prince Bonesaw's country with offensive weaponry. Given all this it should surprise no one that the 2024 Dem Party platform has also stripped mention of opposing forever wars and regime change operations, while dropping promises to decrease defense funding. Gone too are vague nods to avoiding "a new cold war" with China, and reforming the U.S. sanction regime.
On the subject of climate crisis, Dem speakers at the DNC were mostly silent; although organizers did allow Punchbowl News to hold an event sponsored by ExxonMobil nearby without comment. Hey, what's the big deal, it's not like we're already in a mass extinction event and fossil-fuel driven capitalism is threatening to kill billions of people, right? While the Party Platform offered some assurances on protecting the right of trans people, if anyone pushed back on or mentioned at all the fascist right's ongoing pogrom and eliminationist policies targeting trans folks, I certainly missed it. Don't worry though, I'm sure working behind the scenes and refusing to publicly stand up for a vulnerable minority group being demonized as pedophiles and targeted for extermination by fascists will win Democrats a many as a half dozen cracker suburban voters who want to pogrom trans people out of existence; so clearly doing nothing to push back on that dangerous rhetoric and these monstrous policies has no downside and was the smart play here.
Nowhere however was the Dem's betrayal of its own voter's values more apparent than on the subject of Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza. The Party's 92 page platform appears completely unchanged from Biden's disastrous pro-Israel, pro-genocide Gaza policy. Anti-genocide protesters were assaulted by Chicago Police outside the convention; nobody inside even mentioned it. The DNC refused to allow a single Palestinian American to speak at the convention; despite a wildly publicized sit-in outside the hall by Uncommitted delegates begging for a few minutes of their time while offering officials the chance to vet the speech in advance. Naturally, they Dems allowed Israeli and even Republican speakers. A Harris delegate was physically attacked with "we heart Joe" signs by attendees for raising a banner that read "Stop Arming Israel," while folks calling out to "stop killing women in Gaza" where shouted down by nationalist chants of U.S.A. from the crowd around them. Did I mention that progressive prodigy Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez praised Harris's "tireless work" to obtain a ceasefire despite no evidence that work exists at all? Well now I have. There was also no mention whatsoever of an arms embargo on Israel while it conducts a genocide, which forces one to assume that nothing has changed since a Biden spokesperson said it was off the table even under Harris.
Please keep in mind that all of this is despite recent polling that shows 70% of likely voters, and 83% of Democrat voters support a permanent cease fire and all evidence indicates that nothing short of an arms embargo on Israel will force Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hand enough to grant one. As representatives from the Uncommitted movement itself have stated, even a large number of the delegates at the 2024 DNC support a permanent ceasefire and an arms embargo; there was little to no public indication of this on offer at the DNC however. Furthermore this recalcitrance and silencing in support of a genocide was also going on despite the fact that the slaughter in Gaza has a very real chance of being the number one election issue for folks who might vote Democrat in the must-win swing state of Michigan.
And yes, #Google and #Apple both host the #KSA's "wife-stalking" movement trackibg#App which is #malware of the Govware kind - plain and simple!
The only way #GrapheneOS is not going to get #shafted (i.e. licensed #MacintoshClones like #PowerComputing did when #SteveJobs took over Apple) is by basically not being dependent on Google's "benevolence" and instead collaborate with other vendors.