Melhem Hamdan @melhamdan

فقد اباه راشد وبعده زايد و فارقه اخاه مكتوم وبعده ولده راشد وحزن على وفاة عضيده حمدان وبعدها خليفة واليوم يفارق آخر اخوانه أحمد الله يربط على قلبك يا بوراشد ، حمال الثقايل كلنا لله وكلنا اليه راجعون

📌🛢️📈 HOW THE UAE LED THE REGION IN RESTORING PRE-WAR EXPORTS AND BROKE THE HORMUZ TRAP 1/ Six months into the war, TankerTrackers says Iran is effectively unable to get its crude to market, while the UAE is exporting almost exactly what it was before the war. Iraq and Kuwait have fought their way back to roughly 2/3 of pre-war exports. Saudi Arabia remains relatively the most heavily disrupted Arab exporter, a particularly consequential setback given the sheer scale of its export system and the fact that both its Gulf and Red Sea routes are under pressure. Same chokepoint, radically different resilience. 2/ Iran: –100%. It had the oil, terminals and tankers, but lost the route to the buyer. It weaponized geography and ended up trapped by it. 3/ UAE: –0.02%. Almost complete preservation of pre-war crude exports. Fujairah was only the first layer. 4/ The real advantage was an integrated export system: bypass pipeline, multiple terminals, controlled shuttle crossings, STS transfers, storage, shipping flexibility and commercial control. 5/ Resilience was also a military choice. The UAE moved early to keep its tankers crossing Hormuz, adding shipboard defenses and, at times, fighter protection. Later, it partnered with the U.S. in the broader operation to secure passage through the strait. The UAE built the bypass—and helped break Iran’s ability to control the route itself. 6/ Iraq and Kuwait at -36% are the giveaway. Both restored roughly two-thirds of pre-war exports despite having far less bypass infrastructure than the region’s biggest systems. Their recovery depended on Hormuz becoming usable again, a process the UAE helped enable through Fujairah’s STS ecosystem and, more importantly, the U.S.–UAE operation securing the southern channel against Iranian attacks. 7/ Saudi Arabia, at around –48% in TankerTrackers’ estimate, sits in a distinct category. Other trackers vary because of AIS gaps and dark shipping, but the disruption is still substantial. Saudi also starts from a much larger export base, so improving the percentage means moving millions of additional barrels, and taking on more shipping risk. Its East–West Pipeline and Yanbu provide major redundancy, but that alternative corridor became contested as well, by the Houthi attacks. 8/ That is the UAE achievement: moving from infrastructure redundancy to export-system resilience. • Geography helped. Fujairah opens directly onto the Gulf of Oman and Asian markets beyond Hormuz. • Pre-war planning added pipelines, terminals, overseas storage, shipping capacity, flexible trade arrangements and global infrastructure ownership. • Once war began, political will and military commitment kept the system moving. The result: an integrated export architecture built to function even when normal routes fail.

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The targeting of Barakah is a terrorist attack on a peaceful project, built to the highest safety standards, that powers homes, hospitals, and industries across the UAE, and on the right of every nation to build, to progress, and to deliver clean energy to its people. Barakah will keep running. The UAE will keep building. Our resolve only grows stronger.

Around 2010, while everyone else was arguing about whether smartphones were a fad, a small group of men inside a glass tower in Abu Dhabi started buying things that did not yet make sense. A nuclear power program that wouldn't deliver electricity for sixteen years. A semiconductor company that wouldn't matter for another decade. Renewable energy stakes before renewables were profitable. Diplomatic depth with India that nobody else in the Gulf bothered with. A relationship with Israel that nobody thought was possible. Chinese trade missions and American defense secretaries hosted in the same week, every week, for years. None of it made sense at the time. All of it makes sense now. The artificial intelligence race is no longer about software. The software is converging. The race is now about three things: the chips, the gigawatts of electricity to run them, and the political relationships to keep both flowing in a world where the United States is choking China's chip access and almost every country in between is being asked to pick a side. The country that put those three things together first, and quietly, is the United Arab Emirates. It is the only player on the board with all four foreign-policy arrows at once. Washington, where Stargate UAE is being built right now as the largest AI campus outside the continental United States. New Delhi, where G42 is building two gigawatts of compute capacity for the next billion users. Tel Aviv, where the Abraham Accords held through a war and the cross-border tech trade rose four hundred and thirty percent year over year. And Beijing, where one hundred billion dollars in non-oil trade and a working channel to the next ruler of Abu Dhabi remain intact, even after the AI side of the relationship was firewalled off. Saudi Arabia has the money but not the alliance breadth. Singapore has the neutrality but not the energy. Ireland has the legal scaffolding but froze its data center permits in 2022 because the grid couldn't carry it. Nobody else is even in the conversation. In December 2025, the UAE and Israel founded a framework called Pax Silica, a trusted-supply-chain agreement for advanced AI chips. The United States joined as senior partner. India signed in February of this year as the fourth founding signatory. That list is the four arrows of a fifteen-year strategy, no longer four separate bilateral relationships, now joined into a single working architecture for the most strategically important industry of the century. The UAE is the central routing node. The Western press is still asking whether the UAE belongs in the AI race at all; the question they should be asking is whether anyone running the AI race can afford not to route through them. The full briefing on how this was built, and what to watch in the next two years, is on my Power Pundit briefing: thepowerpundit.com/p/the-uaes-qui…

والشقيق هو من تشاركه المستقبل لا الأطلال @NadimKoteich

Nadim Koteich @NadimKoteich

7 months ago

الشقيقة كوريا الجنوبية.. لماذا!؟ يتجاوز إعلان الإمارات العربية المتحدة رفع تصنيف كوريا الجنوبية (واليونان) إلى مرتبة "الدول الشقيقة"، سياق المجاملة الديبلوماسية، ليشكل انعطافة في صميم مفهوم الهوية والسياسة. في قاموس منطقتنا، ليست الأخوّة لقباً عابراً، بل عقداً وجودياً قائماً

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لدينا فائض من السياسيين في العالم العربي ولدينا نقص في الإداريين. أزمتنا أزمة إدارة وليست موارد ..انظر للصين واليابان لا يملكان موارد طبيعية أين وصلوا .. وانظر لدول تملك النفط والغاز والماء والبشر،ولا تملك مصيرها التنموي ..ولا تملك حتى توفير خدمات أساسية كالطرق والكهرباء لشعوبها

My friend @MikeBloomberg knows the UAE well. ln this compelling article, he lays out our strong fundamentals. thenationalnews.com/opinion/commen…

The Iran war has neither derailed nor stalled the Gulf's progress Michael R Bloomberg The National thenationalnews.com/opinion/commen…

Accurate analysis by Singapore FM on straits in general

Eric 𝕏 @WorldStrategist

7 months ago

Singapore’s Foreign Minister on why he cannot accept negotiating with Iran for safe passage of ships. Definitely worth listening to:

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"وطن لا نحميه لا نستحق العيش فيه"🇦🇪 . إهداء إلى حماة الأرض إلى كل من أقسم أن يبقى هذا العلم خفاقاً، وألا تُمس ذرة رمل من ترابنا الطاهر. أنتم الرهان الرابح، والدرع الحصين، والردع الذي لجم الطامعين. سلامٌ على من جعلوا صدورهم دروعاً، وأرواحهم فداءً لتبقى راية الوطن عالية خفاقة تعانق السحاب . كفيتم ووفيتم يا حماة الدار . . #فخورين_بالإمارات #اللهم_احفظ_الإمارات #لتطمئن_القلوب_الدار_بخير #كفو_القوات_المسلحة_الإماراتية

#فخورين_بالإمارات 🇦🇪 وطن الأمان والكرامة، الذي يواصل مسيرة البناء بثقة ووعي وصلابة، وتبقى رايته عالية بفضل أبنائه الأوفياء، ومواقفه مشرفة في كل ميدان #ProudoftheUAE 🇦🇪 a nation of safety and dignity, advancing its path of development with confidence, awareness, and resilience, its flag held high by the loyalty of its sons, and its standing honorable across every field #وزارة_الداخلية_الإمارات #الامارات_أمن_وأمان #MOIUAE

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حصنتك باسم الله يا وطن… 🇦🇪

Spot on as always from @NadimKoteich

Nadim Koteich @NadimKoteich

7 months ago

📌🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱 بدأ الآن سريان وقف لإطلاق النار لمدة أسبوعين. سيُفتح مضيق هرمز، ثم تبدأ في إسلام آباد محادثات إيرانية أميركية بحلول نهاية الأسبوع. الحرب توقفت مؤقتاً ولم تنتهِ بعد، وقد أوضح بيان القبول الإيراني ذلك صراحةً بقوله: "هذا لا يعني إنهاء الحرب". 🔴 النتائج العسكرية قبيل

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Exclusive🇸🇦: #SaudiArabia's crude exports averaged 5.3mn b/d in March and refined products exports stood at around 800,000 b/d, sources told @ArgusMedia, after Riyadh successfully rerouted flows to its west coast following the closure of the strait of Hormuz. Crude exports averaged 3.3mn b/d from the Red Sea port of Yanbu and 1.1mn b/d from the kingdom's main Ras Tanura hub, according to trade analytics firm @Kpler, bringing the total to 4.4mn b/d. But Saudi Arabia also tapped into its "international storage in Japan, South Korea and the Netherlands for a few days, until rerouted cargoes began arriving at Yanbu," the sources said. #oott 🔗: argusmedia.com/en/news-and-in…

أعظم ما ظهر خلال هذه الأزمة هو إحساس كل المقيمين فى الأمارات أن هذه بلدهم بإختلاف جنسياتهم و تضامنهم بقوة معها ...👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 الف تحية

Spot on as always @AnwarGargash

د. أنور قرقاش @AnwarGargash

7 months ago

لطالما كان الساحل الشمالي الإيراني للخليج العربي مساحةً للتواصل والازدهار بين شعوبه من العرب واللور والفرس والبلوش، وارتبطت فرص العيش الكريم فيه بازدهار دول الخليج العربية. لكن النظام الإيراني حوّله إلى منصة لعدوانه على جيرانه، بعدما كان جسراً للتقارب والتنمية. ويأتي بيان وزارة

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📌🚨🇦🇪 Today, in the middle of an active war, Abu Dhabi closed a $60 billion industrial deal, one of the biggest in its history. @XRG_official, @ADNOCGroup’s international investment arm and @omv completed the formation of Borouge International: a global polyolefins champion combining Borouge, Borealis, and NOVA Chemicals. The world's leading pure-play polyolefins company. Fourth-largest producer on the planet. Triple investment-grade ratings from S&P, Moody's and Fitch. Signed, sealed, delivered. While the Strait of Hormuz burns. That's the headline. But it doesn't exist in a vacuum. This is the economy that produced that deal: ↓ 🔴 @aldar paid $422 million to contractors in March alone. All 141 construction sites are active. 30 million working hours logged, up 20% versus March 2025. Three new sites were activated mid-conflict. The cranes didn't stop. 🔴 @emaardubai Development approved a $1.1 billion dividend on March 26, 100% of share capital, on the back of record 2025 sales of $19.4 billion. The message to shareholders: we're not in crisis mode. We're in business mode. 🔴 #Fujairah crude loadings hit 1.9 million bpd last week, up 57% from the 2025 average. The Habshan pipeline is running near full capacity. Iran has struck Fujairah at least seven times. It keeps exporting. 🔴 @blackstone committed $250 million to Abu Dhabi in one of the first major foreign investments since the war started. Their COO's words: "We see significant opportunity to deploy capital at scale in the UAE." 🔴 The #UAE quietly reaffirmed its $1.4 trillion US investment pledge without interruption, as Yousef Al Otaiba, UAE Ambassador to Washington @UAEEmbassyUS wrote to the US-UAE Business Council in mid-March. 🔴 Repatriation flights organized by foreign governments left Abu Dhabi and Dubai with more empty seats than passengers. Expats chose to stay. ➡️ This is the economic context in which Borouge International was born. Not despite the war. Inside it. Abu Dhabi spent a decade building for exactly this: bypass pipelines, diversified economy (75%+ non-oil GDP), sovereign buffers at 184% of GDP. The war didn't interrupt the strategy. It validated it.

OMV Group @omv

7 months ago

#OMV and @XRG_official, @ADNOCGroup ’s international investment arm, today announced the successful formation of Borouge Group International AG, to operate under the brand name “Borouge International”. More information: omv.com/en/media/press…

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@sentdefender Does thunder qualify as ‘explosions’?

@sentdefender Fake news

@DXBMediaOffice beautiful dubai 🇦🇪

Dubai Media Office @DXBMediaOffice

7 months ago

دبي Dubai

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