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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Lol, that’s cool. haha <3
The people with wealth have already fled to their spring palaces, the people left to starve there are the workers and migrants.
Haha, that’s the fun part. This news is truly awesome. All that matters is that the important people are safe and sound. Who would care about those others? They’re just casualties of war.
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God I fucking hate being trapped in this country… 😣
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It’ll be fine. Maybe they could build a 100km long trench and call it a city, like MBS is doing in Saudi Arabia.
They have run out of money and apparently will now only build 550m of it!
The property values will sore!
Lmao NSFW this pls.
Oh, anyway
UAE Does not have/grow any Local Food???
or is that for all Middle east countries.It is literally in the last paragraph of the write-up.
UAE imports 90% of its food while overall the gulf countries import 70% of their food.
Not much of a surprise, they are not known for their swathes of farm land.
Okay thank you.
I should read more next time.
Thoughts & prayers.
Considering the only people at risk of starving there are the migrant workers and indentured servants to royalty, then yeah, we should probably give a fuck about the innocent people who didn’t ask for this.
They’re not starving.
I’m sure the uber wealthy have plenty & will share unselfishly.
I see you want to poison them with tater tots.
Is that a Harry & David gift box by chance? I caint see shit b/c I caint find my dang spectacles. There they are. Nope. Not Harry & David but much better than they are getting.
Dubai had no problem using slaves to build the Burj Khalifa. Maybe they should have their slaves bring some food for their masters?
Perhaps a few cocktails as well
I propose the slaves eat their masters
Spec Ops: The Line was a very good game.
Never finished it and won’t.
Game directly tells you you can stop killing Civilians at any time by just not playing.
You got it right.
You know, that’s an interesting point. I think it can be really interesting to explore the „darker“ sites of one’s psyche through choices offered by better RPGs.
I refuse to play games which revolve around what I perceive to be normalization of and desensitization towards amoral killing, though. I simply don’t enjoy them because I can’t help but wonder what playing them does to people’s minds.
I refuse to play games which revolve around what I perceive to be normalization of and desensitization towards amoral killing, though. I simply don’t enjoy them because I can’t help but wonder what playing them does to people’s minds.
I think this has been bleeding over into television as well. There have been series I have just stopped watching because there was no longer someone I could consider a protagonist. Not everyone has to be a shining paragon of virtue, but for fucks sake, if you just give me a bunch of sociopaths running amok am I supposed to keep watching and hope they all die in the end? The latest series I dropped for this reason was Alien Earth, which was pretty decent up until near the end of season 1.
The only shooter I’ll play is Hell Let Loose because it really makes you feel like canon fodder.
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?
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.
The story isn’t strictly on rails - you do get some choices (especially how your character reacts in the end.) When you reach the part where you are told that you have to kill one of two guys, you can actually refuse to kill either and take on a massive firefight.
Does that actually change anything beyond the firefight though?
Yup. Undertale’s Geno Route is much better at this. Not only can you avoid it, you need to actively go for it and make sure you don’t “fall” out to the Neutral route halfway through. Not to mention the skill curve walls (if for no other reason, you should do the Pacifist route first for practice).
Yeah, it’s a cool game, but you could just read Heart of Darkness instead and prob be better off
Yeah. I read Heart of Darkness long before I saw that, plus I’d watched Apocalypse Now, which is a movie adaptation of Heart of Darkness. I saw a list of their influences in making the game, and I’d already seen all of the other ones too. So… it was definitely taking FPS military games in a new direction, but it wasn’t anything really new overall.
Still worth playing in 2026? I have it and never played. I just have a hard time pulling the trigger (no pun intended) and starting to play mms’s. And that’s even with all the old guard game reviewers like tb praising it, which is why/how I own it in the first place. It just sits uninstalled in my steam library and I think about it every few years.
Yes, its still worth playing.
It may have lost its cultural significance some since the 2000’s US invasions have been forgotten a bit, but its not all about that anyway. Its still poignant. Maybe it will make it easier to decide if I tell you its a short campaign.Still one of the best games with a story that subverts its own genre alongside KOTOR 2, definitely worth experiencing.
Absolutely, especially if you care about good story and atmosphere in games.
I played it again last year on a whim and was not disappointed.
Let them eat those stupid ass chocolate bars
Good.
It’s a food pipeline they need, none of them gas ones.
No need to brag about it, Dubai.
But how many toilets do they have left?
All the Andrew Tate bro types are going to FAFO.
Do they not have land trade routes?
Yes land and flight (I imagine limited now) freight but surely orders of magnitude more expensive.
First example I found https://www.cnbctv18.com/world/dubai-allows-alternative-route-for-jebel-ali-bound-cargo-freight-costs-jump-nearly-fivefold-ws-l-19864680.htm “a nearly fivefold increase in freight charges.” which I also imagine is a margin error if you ship expensive technological equipment or luxury goods but if it’s “just” tomatoes and salads, quite different.
Why drive through a desert when you have a port?
To not starve?
I think the point is that they werent doing it before the war. (Because it was so much more costly)
Getting that kind of infrastructure set up will take time. Were talking hundreds of refrigerated trucks and a couple thousand miles. Longer depending on where they come in from. Are they trucking across Saudi Arabia? Landing shipping vessels in a port outside of the strait and running along the coastal roads within Iran’s drones range?
Sure but you’d think they’d have a plan b or something for such an obvious threat they lobbied for getting into themselves.
Nah someone will bail us - let’s build more fake island shaped like flaccid cocks.
Capitalism does not like redundancies. Most of the globe is relying on single points of failure in their supply chains
Do you have any idea how hard it would be to logistically set up? This isn’t driving to the grocery store, it’s feeding a whole damn city
Even if they wanted to do this, it would take months to set up even at a breakneck pace
They do, but their sources would be Oman or Saudi Arabia. Both are already helping their neighbors but the UAE has sabotaged their relationship with both of them.
Oman: old issues.
Saudi Arabia: they have been attacking it over refusing the Abraham Accords, destroying their Yemen separatists supply lines, and backing the Sudanese government in their fight against the UAE backed RSF. They don’t want to look weak by resorting to Saudi who have been helping all the other GCC countries. Also have been playing Israel’s advocate and attacking Saudi for not joining the war against Iran.
Edit: Saudi dedicated an entire airport near the border for Kuwait airlines, and dedicated a terminal for Bahrain in an other airport. For Qatar they announced free transit for any shipments coming via Red Sea ports headed to Qatar.
There are roads between the eastern side of the strait and Dubai and there is a cool technology called “trucks” that can be used to transport produce. Yes, it’s more expensive than boats but I read somewhere that Dubai is very rich.
Trust me. They know about trucks. From 8 in the evening to 6 in the morning it’s miles and miles and miles of trucks going from the north to south
If your infrastructure is all geared around getting everything in by port, it might not be possible to switch to getting it all in by truck.
There might not be enough trucks, or enough truck drivers. If they can get enough trucks and drivers, the roads may not be able to support that much traffic. And, that’s assuming they even have enough ports, and the right kinds of ports to unload any ships that come in on that side.
There’s thousands of trucks driving every night
There’s so many trucks they are not allowed to drive during the day. So the night it’s just one straight line of trucks from RAK to Abu Dabi
They don’t have trains so its the main way of moving goods between the emirates
No, surely they just didn’t think of it.
You need ships to get those trucks there in the first place. Also they have to be manufactured and bought.
What, you mean you dont actually need helicopters to do that?
See the problem there is, that they don’t have the oil /s
No for real they don’t have the trucks they would need and to acquire them takes time
You need the trucks in place now, and port capacity in the off coasts. It’s fair that they can work out an alternative to starving.
