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Leaked documents expose a stunning plan by the UAE and tangentially Saudi Arabia to wage covert financial war on Qatar and to steal Qatar's turn to host the World Cup.
https://theintercept.com/2017/11/09/uae-qatar-oitaba-rowland-banque-havilland-world-cup/
The lines between war and peace are blurring even more these days as nations like the UAE and Saudi Arabia (to name but two) covertly disrupt national, regional and global economies to meet their national interests. The great damage they do to the well being of hard working average women and men on the street is seemingly of no consequence to these potentates of oil and finance as they play macroeconomic chicken with their rich counterparts in Qatar and the greater Middle East. Meanwhile tens of thousands die and millions starve or succumb to disease in Yemen as the Saudis and the UAE tighten their blockade of that beleaguered country.
Is it time to create an economic and humanitarian Geneva Convention on Economic Warfare and peacetime military blockades? Is it time to constrain those who control capital from abusing that control by waging de facto economic warfare, unless a formal declaration of war exists between two states? Is it time to jail or hang the rich and those who manage and control great concentrations of capital if they abuse others through covert and hostile financial manipulation during peacetime?
With great power must come great responsibility, not majestic impunity.
Cheers.
Evilroddy.
https://theintercept.com/2017/11/09/uae-qatar-oitaba-rowland-banque-havilland-world-cup/
A PLAN FOR the United Arab Emirates to wage financial war against its Gulf rival Qatar was found in the task folder of an email account belonging to UAE Ambassador to the United States Yousef al-Otaiba and subsequently obtained by The Intercept.
The economic warfare involved an attack on Qatar’s currency using bond and derivatives manipulation. The plan, laid out in a slide deck provided to The Intercept through the group Global Leaks, was aimed at tanking Qatar’s economy, according to documents drawn up by a bank outlining the strategy.
The lines between war and peace are blurring even more these days as nations like the UAE and Saudi Arabia (to name but two) covertly disrupt national, regional and global economies to meet their national interests. The great damage they do to the well being of hard working average women and men on the street is seemingly of no consequence to these potentates of oil and finance as they play macroeconomic chicken with their rich counterparts in Qatar and the greater Middle East. Meanwhile tens of thousands die and millions starve or succumb to disease in Yemen as the Saudis and the UAE tighten their blockade of that beleaguered country.
Is it time to create an economic and humanitarian Geneva Convention on Economic Warfare and peacetime military blockades? Is it time to constrain those who control capital from abusing that control by waging de facto economic warfare, unless a formal declaration of war exists between two states? Is it time to jail or hang the rich and those who manage and control great concentrations of capital if they abuse others through covert and hostile financial manipulation during peacetime?
With great power must come great responsibility, not majestic impunity.
Cheers.
Evilroddy.
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