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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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.
be dubai
build city in the middle of the desert
literally nothing grows here
we import all our stuff
trade blockade
gonna starve
mfwAlso how did people historically live there? Before desalination plants
In XVIII they lived from fishery and hunting clams. In XX they lived from port and trade. In second half of XX they lived from petroleum. Now they live from youtubers who are testing rooms and food there.
It should also be mentioned that considerably fewer people lived there back then.
Good.
Damn, one of my co-workers just left to go visit there. He had some serious reservations about going home for a couple weeks. I hope he makes it back okay…
Maybe one of those vanity projects could have been a greenhouse or something, but I guess it’s too late for that.
With what water?
It’s a desert. Solar powered desalination plants might have been a good idea.
That’s a nice soft target there. Would be a shame if something, oh iran bombed one already.
water.fanack.com/desalination-plants-water-weapon-gulf/
The American Israeli coalition directly and intentionally destroyed a desalination plant in Iran. Barhain’s desalination plant was damaged by debris from a drone strike on another target. Those are very different statements and very different levels of destruction.
But yes, they’re soft targets if the people attacking you are complete degenerates willing to commit way crimes!
I’ve had a look at their bank balances, they could afford a few backups
Shouldn’t have been an ally of the US and Israel.
Why not? It’s not like the true “Allies”, the billionares of Dubai, will be affected by the food shortage. They will just fly off and abandon every worker and tenant (if any?) in dubai.
It’s imoral, but the scumbags lose nothing.
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
If nothing happens that society and its practices will never change and the pain will continue.
If the whole castle of cards collapses due to this, whilst it’s a small consolation for the current slaves, it’s way more pain spared for would be future slaves.
Further, the scumbags will definitelly lose if the whole slave-using realestate-bubble empire whose value supports their wealth collapses back to nomads camel fucking in the desert.
They’re not allies of the US nor Israel but just try to play being allies of everyone, just like Qatar or India
If you’re hosting some other country’s military bases you’re either its Ally or its Vassal.
lol It’s Dusell now I guess.
i hope nobody starves but fuck Dubai
Oh don’t worry. The modern day slaves - the Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nepali, Sri Lankan, Indonesian, and Filipino workers will absolutely suffer.
Now would be a great time for these overworked and underpaid masses to do the funny thing to the besieged city of millionaires.
Except that they wouldn’t be obtaining the land they toil on to feed their children because the land there is a fucking desert, and their land and families are an Emirates’ long haul flight away.
Pile of rolexes (blood rinsed off) would fund a plane ticket home and some home improvements back in Bangladesh.
I was thinking more they’d do it to get what food remains or they’d starve.
The starving have nothing to lose, slave or not.
Oh, that great, I almost worried anyone important might have to skip their favorite breakfast. /s
The families responsible for why everything is unaffordable will be fine.
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.
In a city of billionaires, 10 days of food is about enough for 1 days of food for one of them.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Still one of the best games with a story that subverts its own genre alongside KOTOR 2, definitely worth experiencing.
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.
Oh NO! RICH people live in Dubai!
-The Media!
there’s also many slaves who live in dubai
i sure wonder who, of the two, will be denied food
I wonder if the LARGE NUMBER of slaves might discover an alternate source of nutrition?
Nobody, because there is plenty of food. The article even says so.
Maybe they’ll eat the rich
But let’s just send our food over to them. Surely it will trickle down this time!
Horse and sparrow ftw
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.
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.
The UAE is not about to starve. It maintains strategic grain reserves and holds significant stocks of frozen and packaged foods, meaning the country is not facing a broader food shortage.
To be fair, that title says fresh food.
UAE and specifically Dubai live on PR and marketing
When the surgically perfected bikini-clad Dubai influencer has to eat barley porridge and frozen veggies, it’s not good content 😆
People will survive, they won’t starve. But how will their PR machine spin this?
I kind of hate how we now have “content creators” who make “content” instead of, you know, people who make videos and stuff. Bland corporate language.
Maybe we should tell snobbier sort of influencers in Dubai that if they want to produce the Content, they unfortunately have to eat the Food.
Watched a clip by some standup comedian who described an odd encounter and then unironically said “Well, I went to my car, you know, created some content, uploaded on Insta.” I had to rewind and hear it again. Felt like I glimpsed into some parallel bizarro reality.
Move over unhealthy Dubai Chocolate and au hello to Dubai Gruel, packed full of super grains that will help you lose weight and stay healthy.
I don’t know what’s scarier. The fact that half the commenters didn’t read that far into the article or that they couldn’t figure out for themselves that fresh food is not all food.
I think the headline is designed to be misleading - the dramatic tone implies a worse situation than the actual words describe.
It’s not how headlines are written now, but it would be more honest to say: Dubai to rely less on fresh food Perishable food in limited supply Fresh fruit and vegetables affected by war in iran
How is the UAE stockpiling frozen foods? Feels like the least cost-effective way for this country to store anything long term as emergency stock.
They aren’t. But the rich aren’t going to eat rice and lentils for very long. Just have to hope those shelf stable stores are available to the slaves.
Shouldn’t they be more worried about water hasn’t Iran started targeting desalination plants that are 90% of the supply there (I think).
yes, after the us attacked iran’s desalination (which it depends on much less than other countries in the region do) opening the door to in-kind retaliation
Eh, they have been in a what shortage since before this war so it might be more important to them
There’s a cold, dark calculation I’m sure Iran has done which probably determines less people = more water.
After killing the protestors (which btw, Trump was too stupid to support so good luck on that rEgImE chAngE) plus casualties from war simply happening, there’s more water for the remaining.
So even though they’ve lost some water supply, they’ve also lost population, balancing things out.
