13/01/2026
“ ’s Bin Zayed is reeling from Bin Salman’s 🇸🇦 sweeping onslaught on his empire:
- cancels its contracts with the and turfs Bin Zayed’s bases;
- is close to establishing a defence pact with and is conferring with the emphatically resurgent Crown Prince on , , the Red Sea, and (where a galvanised government has finally relocated back to the capital );
- avoids antagonising and strays from UAE by refusing to recognise ;
- Bin Zayed’s STC proxy in is dissolved, its remnants bombarded, and remaining allies cede and turn themselves over to Bin Salman as he turfs the and spectacularly ruins Abu Dhabi’s treacherous and ruinous 10 year project in a mere 10 days;
- Bin Zayed struggles to find a single regional power to lend support or mediate or stop the unravelling of his empire.”
Saami Hamdi
“Bin Zayedka Imaaraadka Carabta ayaa wajahaya dib-u-dhac weyn kadib weerar siyaasadeed oo ballaaran oo uu ku qaaday Bin Salman 🇸🇦, kaas oo ruxay saamayntiisii iyo mashruuciisii gobolka:
-Soomaaliya waxay baabi’isay dhammaan qandaraasyadii ay la lahayd Imaaraadka, waxayna dalka ka saartay saldhigyadii Bin Zayed;
-Madaxweyne Erdoğan ayaa ku dhow inuu heshiis difaac la galo Riyadh, wuxuuna wadahadallo la yeelanayaa Dhaxal-sugaha sida xooggan ugu hawlan arrimaha Yemen, Soomaaliya, Badda Cas, iyo Suudaan (halkaas oo dowlad si weyn u mideysan ay ugu dambayn dib ugu soo laabatay caasimadda Khartuum);
Hindiya ayaa ka fogaatay inay caro geliso Sacuudi Carabiya, waxayna ka leexatay gabi ahaanba xodxodashada Imaaraadka iyada oo si cad u diiday inay aqoonsato Somaliland;
Kooxda STC ee Yemen, oo ahayd wakiilka Bin Zayed, waa la kala diray; wixii ka harayna waa la duqeeyay, halka xulafadii hadhayna ay is dhiibeen oo u wareegeen Bin Salman, kadib markii uu si buuxda uga saaray Imaaraadka Yemen kuna burburiyay mashruucii khiyaanada iyo burburka ahaa ee Abu Dhabi 10 ka sano dhisaysay, 10 maalmood gudahood;
Bin Zayed ayaa ku dhibtoonaya inuu helo hal quwad goboleed oo taageerta, dhex-dhexaadisa, ama joojisa burburka iyo kala daadashada saameyntiisii iyo boqortooyadiisii siyaasadeed.”
Saami Hamdi
