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But their closest European alliance is with France? If so, then we have only ourselves to blame. Britain's longstanding ties to the Arab world are for some reason less well-known in the population at large than used to be the case, whereas a word has been abroad that we have particularly close links to a country set up by anti-British Marxist terrorists and with which we have only the most limited economic or cultural dealings.
However, no teenage British conscript was photographed being hanged with barbed wire by those seeking the independence of the Trucial States, and relations ever since have reflected that. With Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, the UAE was a Clinton campaign backer on whose instruction she therefore promised to nuke Iran. But the Emiratis' bonds to Britain are older and stronger. And the Emirates would make for a much less difficult or demanding outpost of British influence than Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are outposts of American influence.
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Well, with Mozambique and Rwanda in the Commonwealth, why not the UAE? Maybe the Commonwealth can help clean up Dubai, since the Commonwealth represents good values. I doubt the Americans would ever do much on that score, too many of our own have benefited from the sleaze.
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