4/9/26 Matt Wolfson on Underappreciated Danger of the United Arab Emirates

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Episode: Matt Wolfson on Underappreciated Danger of the United Arab Emirates
Date: April 14, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode features Scott Horton in conversation with journalist Matt Wolfson, discussing Wolfson’s in-depth article "United Arab Emirates, America and Israel’s Frankenstein Monster." The dialogue exposes the underreported geopolitical danger posed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), particularly regarding its imperialist strategies in Africa, extensive and opaque investments in the United States, its close alignment with Israel, and the lack of critical scrutiny these activities receive in American media and policy circles.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. UAE’s Colonial Legacy and Geopolitical Expansion

• Wolfson draws a historical parallel between the UAE and 19th-century Belgium, noting that both are small states leveraging connections with major powers (UK, France, Germany then; US and Israel now) to enact extractive, profit-driven colonialism in Africa.
  • "The United Arab Emirates is historically...most similar to Belgium in the 19th and early 20th centuries...Belgium enriching this tiny little nation, you know, ruled by King Leopold. The United Arab Emirates has done the same thing, but over a much vaster swath of Africa in alliance with Israel and underwritten by America." (05:00)
• The UAE, despite its size, wields outsize influence across Africa, contributing to wars and humanitarian crises in Congo, Sudan, Somalia, and Libya—all to secure resources like minerals, agriculture, and diamonds.
• Wolfson emphasizes that these actions are “essentially genocidal extraction” which is grossly underreported and enabled by American and Israeli support.

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2. UAE’s Growing Influence in the United States

• The conversation highlights the massive scale of Emirati investment in vital US sectors:
  • "$2.4 trillion in our AI infrastructure, in our energy infrastructure, in our manufacturing…in Chicago parking meters…It's the third biggest investor...in substantial sectors in the United States."* (06:40)
• Unlike mere economic participation, the UAE's investments are accompanied by intelligence operations against American interests, as confirmed by DOD and DHS reports and a Washington Post exposé.
  • "The United Arab Emirates is technically our ally...but is spying on and lobbying using illegal means...And we're letting them in the front door." (08:30)
• Wolfson warns: This is happening "completely under the radar," with an authoritarian monarchy gaining strategic footholds in critical American industries.
  • "This is big corporations funded by government invested in...by an entity that doesn’t respect, you know, human rights...And we’re letting this happen." (10:32)

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3. The UAE’s Role in Middle East Conflicts—Especially Yemen

• Scott underscores the UAE’s central role in the US-backed war on Yemen (orchestrated along with Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman):
  • "One of the very worst things that America has done in our generation is Obama and Trump and somewhat Biden's war against Yemen, which was all at the behest of… the United Arab Emirates." (12:00)
• The UAE’s hidden cooperation with Al Qaeda in Yemen is detailed:
  • When the war empowered Al Qaeda, “Obama had the UAE go in and just essentially conscript them into the UAE’s militia on the ground. They just stopped calling them AQAP, but...went in there and hired them all and put them in the UAE's ground force for east against the Houthis.” (14:18)
  • "CNN even had a piece...Here's Al Qaeda guys driving around in American MRAP armored vehicles and shooting American machine guns because they're fighting in UAE's militia." (15:11)

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4. The UAE’s Campaign Against Democracy and Real Muslim Representation

• Wolfson challenges the mainstream narrative that UAE’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed is a “liberal modernizer fighting Islamists.” Instead:
  • "Well, he's more than willing to conscript Islamist terrorists when the United States says so…If you look at who he's actually taking out, it's people like the Houthis...Tunisia's Muslim Brotherhood or Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood..." (16:00)
• The UAE’s real agenda is “to turn not just Abu Dhabi and Dubai, but...Yemen and Gaza...into Singapore...based on corporations and service workers. Squeeze out the middle class, squeeze out any chance of democracy.” (17:51)
• The attacks are against representative, mainstream, or moderate Islamic groups, not just against radicals.

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5. UAE’s Proxy Wars and Resource Extraction in Sudan and Africa

• In Sudan, the UAE is arming and funding the RSF militia, resulting in rampant violence, displacement, and hunger—again, in pursuit of gold and resource control.
  • "They're backing them with money, they're backing them with weapons...They are causing...a civil war that's leaving...millions of people unhoused...hundreds of thousands of people slaughtered..." (20:07)
• The Western media often fails to link these horrors directly to calculated UAE policy.

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6. Emirati Influence Operations Inside the United States

• Wolfson reads from a Washington Post report about UAE’s extensive efforts to manipulate U.S. foreign policy through both legal and illegal methods—exploiting campaign contributions, lobbying, and lenient disclosure laws.
  • "U.S. intelligence officials had compiled a classified report detailing extensive efforts to manipulate the American political system by the UAE, including illegal and legal attempts to steer US Foreign policies in ways favorable to the UAE..." (23:44)
• UAE’s influence extends to think tanks, universities, and policy institutions.

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7. Deepening Ties Between UAE and Israel

• The UAE’s increasingly intimate relationship with Israel facilitates and amplifies its influence in Washington, and was crucial in the Abraham Accords.
  • "The United Arab Emirates is very close to Israel...It has a very close relationship with Israel, so close that it's begun to upset the Saudis..." (24:44)
• Wolfson suggests American Zionists facilitate these ties and UAE’s entry into US spheres of power:
  • "I think this is Zionist influence play to its...fingertips." (25:55)

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8. UAE’s Destabilizing Influence Beyond Africa—Libya, Somalia & U.S. Domestic Politics

• In Libya, the UAE backed mercenary groups after the NATO-led regime change, undermining post-Gaddafi stabilization and channeling ill-gotten resources.
  • "What's happened since then is that the United Arab Emirates has gotten involved funding these mercenaries...a lot of these mercenaries or their arms are finding their way to Sudan to help the RSF..." (29:14)
• Somalia case: The UAE gained control over strategic ports, which then served the normalization of Somaliland’s ties with Israel—further destabilizing the region and undercutting Somali sovereignty.
  • "Somaliland has Somalia's largest port...owned...by the United Arab Emirates. Suddenly, Somaliland says, we're this breakaway province. We recognize Israel." (31:30)
• Wolfson speculates this proven ability to play local players against each other may be applied to the U.S. federal system via state-level investments and influence campaigns.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Wolfson:
  • "It's a tiny little parasite devouring a whale. That's essentially what the United Arab Emirates is beginning to do in America." (05:45)
  • "[UAE] makes no bones about respecting human rights. It doesn't respect human rights in Africa. It doesn't respect human rights for its own citizens...Why are we letting these people in?" (09:43)
• Horton:
  • "It literally was a crime comparable to Iraq War two or Syria in terms of the human cost there." (13:13)
  • "Here's Al Qaeda guys driving around in American MRAP armored vehicles...because they're fighting in UAE's militia." (15:11)
• Wolfson:
  • "They're empowering Islamists at the expense of regular Islamic and Muslim communities that want to live based on their values in some semblance of representative...government." (18:30)
  • "We're putting our technology in these people's hands and these people can't be trusted for anything." (22:50)
  • "We haven't seen an actor with this kind of stealth power in America before, like the UAE and it's the Zionists who brought them there." (27:22)

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Important Timestamps

• [01:35] - Wolfson explains the rationale behind his article’s title and the Belgium-UAE analogy.
• [05:00] - UAE’s resource extraction and genocidal impact in Africa.
• [06:40] - Deep dive into the scale of UAE’s U.S. investments, particularly in AI.
• [12:00] - Role of the UAE in Yemen war and Western indifference.
• [14:18] - UAE’s conscription of Al Qaeda affiliates in Yemen.
• [16:00] - Deconstruction of the “liberal autocrat vs. Islamists” myth.
• [19:45] - Details on UAE’s backing of Sudanese RSF and consequences.
• [23:44] - UAE’s infiltration of U.S. political and academic institutions.
• [24:44] - UAE-Israel strategic bond and repercussions.
• [29:14] - UAE’s destabilizing activities in Libya and Somalia—and implications for U.S. federalism.
• [31:30] - Somalia port deal, Somaliland, and Israel recognition.

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Conclusion

Matt Wolfson’s investigation illuminates the multi-layered threat posed by the UAE—an ostensibly “friendly” monarchy—whose unchecked extraction, investments, and intelligence operations extend from Africa to U.S. infrastructure and policymaking. The episode urges listeners to recognize the UAE’s actions as a deliberate, ongoing project in partnership with Israel, underwritten by American power, and warns against American complacency in the face of these rising authoritarian and anti-democratic influences.

Read Matt Wolfson’s full article at the Libertarian Institute:
libertarianinstitute.org – "United Arab Emirates, America and Israel’s Frankenstein Monster"

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Transcript

[A]

You ladies and gentlemen of the press have been less than honest according to the American people. What's going on in this country?

[B]

We're dealing with Hitler revisited.

[A]

This is the Scott Horton Show.

[B]

Libertarian foreign policy mostly. When the president does it, that means that it is not a liberty. We're gonna take out seven countries. They don't know what the they're doing.

[A]

Negotiate now.

[B]

End this war.

[A]

And now, here's your host, Scott Horton. All right, you guys. Introducing again, Matt Wolfson. He's a regular writer for us at the Libertarian Institute and he has his own website which is oppo research.com and that's his name on X there too. You can follow him. Welcome back to the show. How you doing?

[B]

It's great to see you. It's Oppo Dash Research Online. Oppo underscore, underscore on Twitter. That's the only way I could make them work. It's great to see you too.

[A]

Hard to say though, right? All the underscores. Just Twitter, it'll come up. Matt Wolfson, Oppo Research. It's on there.

[B]

It's great to see you. Thank you.

[A]

Absolutely, yeah. Great to have you here. Hey, man. So this piece is really well done. You do such thorough work. I love all your articles and I'm afraid to admit to you, but I will because I don't like lying about stuff. I didn't even get a chance to finish this thing. I got about two thirds of the way through though, I think, and it's just so in depth. There's so much here that I'll just let you go ahead and take us through it, I hope. And then I also hope I can come up with a couple of good follow up questions for you here. But there's just so much to this that, and it's so enlightening. It's called United Arab Emirates, America and Israel's Frankenstein Monster. So tell us, why are you so racist against Israel?

[B]

Well, first of all, I, I have to give credit to, to I guess our mutual colleague Hunter Durantis who came up with the title. I think that wasn't my title. It was much more anodyne or anodyne or something. It is the perfect title actually because it sums up, and Hunter's as you know, a remarkable editor. It sums up really what the theme of the piece is, which is that America and Israel, between them seem to have created a kind of plausibly out of control entity in the United Arab Emirates by offshoring and outsourcing a lot of our needs. America has often via Israel, to them, the. The United Arab Emirates is historically, and I mentioned this in my immediate previous piece for the Libertarian Institute, it's probably most similar to Belgium in the 19th and early 20th centuries, which is this very tiny state. I mean, Belgium, everyone knows it's a tiny state in Northern Europe. The United Arab Emirates is a tiny state. I mean, it's the size of. It's smaller than Indiana. The entire country. It's a collection of seven emirates. So very small provinces in the Gulf region that united in the late 1960s, early 1970s, to be able to sell oil better, because that's their big commodity to the West. It has 11 million people, I think 11 or 14 million people. It's a tiny country, like Belgium did in the late 19th, early 20th century. It sort of rode off its connections to the big colonial empires. In the 19th century, it was the British and the German and the French. In the 20th, it's the American empire and America's proxy Israel or client or patron, however you want to see Israel. But the United Arab Emirates have sort of followed Belgium's lead in making these connections with these bigger powers and then using them, those connections to colonize much of Africa. And with the Belgians, it's the Belgian Congo, the Congo Free State, which is famously this sort of. You can look it up in Cambridge's World History of Genocide. It's this. In the second volume, it's this pretty horrific extractive endeavor in the late 19th century. Joseph Conrad wrote the Heart of Darkness about it to symbolize European colonism, where all of these precious resources, diamonds, minerals, rubber, ivory, were extracted at the cost. There's a lot of controversy over this, but an estimate is up to 10 million lives over 23 years. So that's Belgium, enriching this tiny little nation, you know, ruled by King Leopold. The United Arab Emirates has done the same thing, but over a much vaster swath of Africa in alliance with Israel and underwritten by America. And, you know, it's caused a civil war in the Congo. It's caused a civil war in the Sudan. Sorry, a war between Congo and Rwanda, which is de facto raping the Democratic Republic of Congo. It's caused a civil war in the Sudan. Hundreds of thousands of people have died. Millions, I mean, 50, 60, 70 million are at risk of acute hunger shortage with me, which means food starvation. You know, it's caused military unrest in Somalia, in Libya, it's overturned or helped to overturn democratic governments in Egypt, in Tunisia. And all of this is so it can get resources, vast amounts of Agriculture, vast amounts of minerals, vast amounts of diamonds. So that alone. And this is the. This is what I wrote an immediately prior piece to the Frankenstein piece for the Libertarian Institute. That alone is just this vast, essentially genocidal extraction that most people don't know about, that America is. And Israel are underwriting in a number of ways. But what this second piece talks about is that the United Arab Emirates has taken it a step beyond Belgium. Imagine if this tiny country took the money it had plundered from this vast continent of Africa and then started investing it back in Britain and France and Germany to gain some control over these big colonizers. I mean, it's a tiny little parasite devouring a whale. That's essentially what the United Arab Emirates is beginning to do in America. As of this year, it is investing $2.4 trillion in our AI infrastructure, in our energy infrastructure, in our manufacturing, in Chicago parking meters. It's the third biggest investor that. I'm going to get the statistics wrong, but it's in the Frankenstein piece. It's the third biggest investor in substantial sectors in the United States, and it's the biggest.

[A]

Those numbers, that's not just like Trump boasting at a microphone, how big the numbers are kind of thing. Those are actual numbers.

[B]

I'm glad you asked, because Trump's boast about foreign investment in America, they're insane. He says it's 22 trillion. You know, it'll be over his whole term. That's insane. The actual estimates of foreign investments during Trump's trust term are 7 to 9 trillion in his second term. That's what's likely to be there. The United Arab Emirates is actually investing during his second term. It's invested 1.4 trillion on top of 1 trillion it's invested prior to his second term. And this is real numbers. I mean, there's no exaggeration here. And it's investing it. I mean, this is also in the piece Artificial intelligence infrastructure is. Your artificial intelligence is estimated to have made up, I think, 30%, based on a Wall Street Journal study, 30% of our growth in GDP in part of 2025. And a good portion of the Emirati's investment is in artificial intelligence. So they're investing in crucial sectors. And they're doing this off a history of actually infiltrating America in very, very frightening ways. I mean, the Washington Post in 2022 released an article about, about the United Arab Emirates spying on Americans. The United Arab Emirates is technically our ally. It's been our ally since it provided us vital services when we were in Iraq. Allies aren't supposed to spy on and lobby using illegal means or finding loopholes in the system. They're allies. The United Arab Emirates is doing this, and this is based on a DoD or Department of Homeland Security report. So not only do these people commit, you know, de facto genocide abroad, they also do really skeezy things in America, and. And we're letting them in the front door. And I mean, I report on a lot of things. I report a lot on Israel. I report a lot on Gaza. I report on ice. I. I do. I do a lot for. For the Libertarian Institute, which I'm just extraordinarily grateful for. But of all of the things I report on, this is, I think, what makes me most fearful. Because unlike Israel, I mean, Israel has to pretend to respect human rights. It doesn't respect human rights, but it has to pretend to respect human rights. The UAE is a monarchy. I mean, it's a hereditary monarchy. It has a bunch of connections to India, to Israel, to Europe in investments. A lot of people are dependent on it. And it makes no bones about respecting human rights. It doesn't respect human rights in Africa. It doesn't respect human rights for its own citizens. There are all these facts you can find on that in my report. Why are we letting these people in mean, why are we letting them have a hand in our data centers, which we hate, anyway? I mean, this is not just big corporations funded by government controlling us. This is big corporations funded by government invested in. In substantial portions by an entity that doesn't respect, you know, human rights, that doesn't respect basic liberties. And we're letting this happen completely under the radar. I mean, for this report, I draw in numerous sources, but there's no. I mean, I say this without modesty, but also with alarm. I'm not aware of any piece but the two I've written for the Libertarian Institute that puts all of this together and lays out the thread. And that's just very concerning for me. Right. Yeah.

[A]

Hey, guys, Scott here. You know, you've probably noticed when I'm interviewing somebody or somebody's interviewing me, I've got this great bust of Dr. Ron Paul in the background on my bookshelf here. Well, you can get one like that, too. They're available again from the great artist Rick Casali. Just go to my website, Scott, Horton.org and look in the right hand margin. Click the link through there and use promo code Horton. You'll save 25 bucks and get free shipping, at least in the lower 48 states. And he does custom work as well. It's a powerful narrative that's not being heard, you know, of course, about this danger. And look, this is so overshadowed for so many reasons, but one of the very worst things that America has done in our generation is Obama and Trump and somewhat Biden's war against Yemen, which was all at the behest of Muhammad bin Salman and Mohammed bin Zayed, the leader of the Crown Prince and leader of the United Arab Emirates. They were so concerned when the Houthis seized power in Sanaa, they convinced Obama to give them the green light and all port they could eat. You know, logistics, intelligence, midair refueling, and of course, all the bombs that they could buy and all the planes that they could buy and, and really organized the whole war for them for what, seven, almost eight years. Killed something like 300,000 people, mostly through starvation as a result of their complete destruction of their economy and especially their food economy in that country. And it got so little coverage because it was an air war and it was a proxy air war and it was between Arabs and Obama did it. So the Democrats didn't care and it was a bunch of Islams and so the Republicans didn't care who was getting bombed over there. And it just kind of went by the wayside. I mean, there were some great activists on the left and the Quakers and libertarians and others who really worked hard to try to stop the thing. I don't want to sell everybody short, but I just mean in the general public, there is very, you know, little interest or very little political juice behind doing anything about it to try to stop it. But it literally was a crime comparable to Iraq War two or Syria in terms of the human cost there.

[B]

One of the things about the Yemen war is that it happened in the context of the uae, sometimes with the alliance of the Saudis and always with the alliance with, allied to Israel and

[A]

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

[B]

I didn't know that.

[A]

Yeah, I mean, in fact, I. I'll shut up after this, I swear. But when the war first started, of course Al Qaeda took, you know, major advantage and they even ceased the port city of Mala for a while. They seized a bunch of military bases and weapons magazines and truly empowered themselves as a, you know, micro state, at least their little. Their own little sovereignty on the coast there for a while, until the public relations got so bad that Obama had the UAE go in and just essentially conscript them into the UAE's militia on the ground. They just stopped calling them AQAP, but they didn't go in there and fight them. They went in there and hired them all and put them in the UAE's ground force for east against the Houthis. And which was especially ironic because at as soon as the Houthis had taken over at the end of 2014, beginning of 2015, Centcom was passing them intelligence to use to kill Al Qaeda. Is to the Al Qaeda guys, the only good Shiites, the dead Shiite. So they said, hey, Houthis, you want intelligence about where you can find some AQAP dudes and kill them for us? And the Houthis were like, yeah. And so we're getting along with them. It was in the Wall Street Journal in January of 2015, also in. I'll monitor a piece by Barbara Slavin and I'll monitor all about this. And then it was just two months later that Obama stabbed them in the back and took AQAP side, but they gained mile. In fact, CNN even had a piece. I know cnn, but still it was legit. They had video, everything. Here's Al Qaeda guys driving around in American MRAP armored vehicles and shooting American machine guns because they're fighting in UAE's militia.

[B]

I had no idea about any of that. It. And what's fascinating is that it, it reinforces something that sort of keeps coming up in the reports I did, which is that Muhammad Sheikh Mohammed's big sort of selling point to the west, and this is accepted in mainstream Washington think tanks and mainstream media. I mean, the New York Times did a massive profile of him in 2020, and they outright said, well, we don't like his authoritarianism, but he's better than the Islamist alternatives. Well, this is a complete fiction that he's selling people. He's saying, I'm a liberal ruler, I give people rights, but the cost is they have to do it without constitutional democracy or a constitutional republic. Well, he's more than willing to conscript Islamist terrorists when the United States says so. And for strategic reasons. If you look at who he's actually taking out, it's people like the Houthis. It's people like or supporting taking out. It's people like Tunisia's Muslim Brotherhood or Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. I mean, people with significant support in their countries or the Sudanese armed forces and the Sudanese government, which is. It's not particularly democratic, but it's a reflection of its society and that it's majority Muslim or in Libya. I mean, this is a war against. For Muhammad, like for Israel. This is not a war against fundamentalism. They Just call it that. This is a war against democratic or relatively democratic or quasi democratic governments that express the general Muslim sentiment of people in those countries. And it's related to this broader project that's tied to all of the AI investment and all of the tech investment, not just in America, but in the Middle East. Because what they're trying to do, and Arabs and Muslims on the ground see this very clearly. I mean, you can see it on Twitter all the time. They're trying to turn not just Abu Dhabi in Dubai, but places like Azerbaijan and if they could, Yemen and Gaza, which the UAE is invested in, into Singapore, into high tech tourists based on corporations and service workers. Squeeze out the middle class, squeeze out any chance of democracy. And they're doing this for a good reason. They think that's the only way that the Muslim world will tolerate a Zionist entity and a monarchy like, like Muhammad's. And so they are going after Islamists, but they're not even going after radicals, they're partnering with radicals. Sometimes they're trying to get any trace of democratic majority, regular religion out of the public sphere. And there's all sorts of work being done that's far more in depth than my own. Mira Al Hussein, who's this remarkable academic, she's an Emirati, she's at the University of Edinburgh, has written a piece and I think is writing a book about how even in the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed is doing all these things to get religion out of daily life, get tribal loyalties out of daily life, all in the service of modernization, all in the service of tourism, finance, ecotourism, green technology, big cities, Dubai, 2040. That's the new plan, new modernization plan that he, he's embraced. So everything we hear as Americans in the mainstream about, oh, they're fighting Islamists, they're the best alternative. They're really not. They're empowering Islamists at the expense of regular Islamic and Muslim communities that want to live based on their values in some semblance of representative or representatively supported government.

[A]

Yeah. Hey, tell us more about their support for, I don't know if you call them rebels, but whoever they are, the fighters in Western Sudan and how that's going.

[B]

Now, Western Sudan is divided between a government that is mostly in a military that is largely influenced by Muslims that is sitting on an enormous amount of precious minerals and farmland and gold. And the UAE doesn't like that government very much. And so it's invested in a proxy government, really, in militia run by a billionaire tycoon who made his money Exporting gold out of Africa illegally to the UAE. This guy is worth about 7 billion, I think he's estimated. And he runs something called the rsf. And the RSF is the militia that the United Arab Emirates is backing. They're backing them with money, they're backing them with weapons. Sometimes they're backing them with weapons that they used in Libya to back the anti Islamist group they wanted to back in Libya. You, you know, and they are causing, I mean, and have been for several years now, a civil war that's leaving, I mean, millions of people unhoused. Multi. Millions. Multi. Millions of people slaughtered. Sorry, th. Hundred. Hundreds of thousands of people slaughtered and many, many people. Multi. Millions of people near the point of starvation. And if you look at this in the Western press, nobody ever tells you why. I mean, occasionally the UAE will come up, but, oh, this one bad government is funding these other bad people and then this other Muslim government, that's kind of bad. I mean, it looks like a clusterfuck. It's not a clusterfuck. It's part of a 20 year effort by the UAE to exert control and extract resources by fair means or foul. Pretty much always foul from Africa. I mean, to put this in perspective, as of 2024, the UAE is the biggest single new investor, the biggest single investor in African businesses. For that year. It outranked China, it outranked the eu, it outranked America. You know, so when we look at what's going on in Sudan, this is part of a power play that spans 16 to 20 countries and is mentoring power. This tiny sliver of land with a close connection and has for 20 years to Israel. It's probably Israel's closest ally in the world outside of America. And the one other thing, I'd say it also has a deep connection to China as part of their investment in our economy, which is to say the UAE's investment, we're giving them access to sensitive information about artificial intelligence technology we've developed. And the RAM Corporation published a study last year saying, well, we might want to think twice because the UAE has very close connections to China. They've said they've diminished the connections, but the facts don't bear that out. And they have a history of selling information to the highest bidder. So we're putting our technology in these people's hands and these people can't be trusted for anything.

[A]

So. Yeah, and speaking of which, tell me a little bit more about the corruption in the United States. Because investing in businesses is one thing. They make their profits, they're not necessarily bribing anybody there. But what really worries me is money into American universities and money into American think tanks, especially, you know, Washington, D.C. influence institutions and that kind of thing.

[B]

So let me. This is not something I got deeply in, into in the piece, but if you don't mind, I, I have, have my other computer open right here. And if you don't mind, I'll just, I'll, I'll read this aloud.

[A]

I do not. Go ahead. Just not too long.

[B]

No, no. In 2022, the Washington Post reported on a report by the American government saying U.S. intelligence officials had compiled a classified report detailing extensive efforts to manipulate the American political system by the uae, including illegal and legal attempts to steer US Foreign policies in ways favorable to the uae. The report was described as remarkable in that it focuses on the influence operations of a friendly nation. And the influence operations exploited the vulnerabilities in American governance, including its reliance on campaign contributions, susceptibility to powerful lobbying firms, and lax enforcement of disclosure laws intended to guard against interference by foreign governments. And if any of your listeners or viewers are interested in, in this, this is a Washington Post exclusive that links to the report in 2022 in November by John Hudson. So that's Washington Post, 2022, November, John Hudson, and the report itself. I'm not, I can't do it justice really lays out the ways in which these people are trying to infiltrate our government and its outgrowths in universities, et cetera. One thing I will say is that the United Arab Emirates is very close to Israel. It has been the current Sheikh Muhammad started security and then surveillance and then military operations with Israel starting in the 2000s. These extended to all kinds of operations in Libya and in Tunisia and in Egypt and in Yemen and Qatar and in Azerbaijan and in Armenia. It has a very close relationship with Israel, so close that it's begun to upset the Saudis of all people who aren't known to hate Israel. You know, and I don't think I don't have definitive proof I can talk about connections between UAE and American Zionists, but. And there are multiple connections in the business sphere, but I don't think there's any way they could get these deals done if American Zionists who, you know, de facto arbitrate Silicon Valley and are major donors to universities and are, as we see, so influential in the White House if they didn't sign off on it. I think this is Zionist influence play to its, to its fingertips.

[A]

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[B]

Absolutely, absolutely. And I think. Go ahead. Sorry. No, I just, I just want to emphasize again, we American Zionists are very good in terms of talking about liberalism and law and order. And I think we might want to think about the fact that they're letting in somebody who, whatever he says, has a track record of 20 years of trampling on everybody's rights everywhere with no regard to anything but money and power. I mean, we haven't seen an actor with this kind of stealth power in America before, like the UAE and it's the Zionists who brought them there.

[A]

Yeah, I see what you mean. I mean, they, they definitely do not get the publicity that they deserve for this level of influence. Yeah, that's definitely right.

[B]

But you're skeptical.

[A]

Yeah, well, Britain and Israel have had a hell of a lot of influence in this country, including covertly, for a very long time. So, you know, and the Turks have gotten away with a lot of bloody murder with the Israeli's help as well in the past.

[B]

So I think you're probably. And look, I could be, you know, when you, I was telling somebody the other day, when you ride alone in your room and you see these threats, you know, you see them clearly, but you can also inflate them when you don't have a chance to talk about them.

[A]

Well, look, no, it's not to diminish anything that you're saying to say that. Yeah, but perfidious Albion, you can't mess with those guys. You know what I mean? They'll run circles around this government when they feel like they need to. You know, they have many times in the past. So now look at that rolling Russia gate. Played a pretty big one. But yeah, so I'm sorry, man, because I did get interrupted when I was in the middle of reading this great piece here. Oh, I know. Here's something that I just scrolled to, which is something that you mentioned. Let me ask you to please elaborate a little bit about their role in Libya.

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Yeah, they. In Libya, which was. And this is an interesting way to talk about how the UAE and the Zionists intersect. In Libya, which was a Zionist. I mean, the two major movers behind our toppling Gaddafi after we got him to give up weapons, you know, which shows what an honest broker we are. The. The two major players behind this were Bernard Henri Levy in France talking to Nicholas Sarkozy and Samantha Power in America talking to Barack Obama. And what Bernard Henry Lee V and Samantha Power have in common is that they got successful in America because of the New Republic magazine, which was the most powerful Zionist magazine in America from the 1970s to the. To the 2010s, as you and I will know. And that was what brought us in to Libya into what turned into, you know, a disastrous sort of civil war. What's happened there is that. So. So this was a Zionist play to start with. What's happened since a civil war erupted between, you know, a largely Muslim government and, you know, basically mercenaries for hire. What's happened since then is that the United Arab Emirates has gotten involved funding these mercenaries. And there are reports from a Turkish think tank that, and it's not clear whether these are fully verified or not, but that there's a lot of gold passing hands between the UAE and these mercenaries, that a lot of these mercenaries or their arms are finding their way to Sudan to help the rsf. You know, and the goal in Libya, like the goal everywhere else for the UAE and Israel and Africa, is to de. Islamicize the various societies in the name of modernization. And what's interesting about tracing this is there's no. Sometimes the UAE shows up in a place and Israel's not there, but everything the UAE does in the place really accrues to Israel's benefit. I mean, the example I can give, it's from the earlier piece, is Somalia, which, you know, is a seaborne country on the east coast of Africa, northeast, I think. And It's. It's about 10 years ago, 15. It was having trouble with piracy. And so friendly old uncle UAE Uncle Muhammad comes in and says to Somalia's government, look, I can help you out. You know, I. I'll bring in our mutual friend Eric Prince, and he'll teach you how to fight pirates and I'll fund your army and I'll even buy a couple of your ports, you know, I'm going to help the government stabilize. Well, all of this was fine and dandy until last year. And then suddenly, at the end of last year, word broke that this longtime province, Somaliland, which had trouble with Somalia's central government, this breakaway province, had decided to recognize Israel. Well, that seems out of nowhere. No one recognizes Somaliland. Somaliland is not recognized by anyone as an independent nation. Somaliland has Somalia's largest port. Somalia's largest port, which is in Somaliland, is owned and is and has in the contract that can be managed for a period of 40 years. Bathing unite in Arab Emirates. Suddenly, Somaliland says, we're this breakaway province. We recognize Israel. And Somalia's government goes ballistic. It cuts all ties with the United Arab Emirates. It says you're behind this deal. We've received information that you brokered this deal between this breakaway province that hosts our biggest port that you owned and Israel. You're giving this province way more power than it used to have by linking it to Israel, and you're doing it at the expense of our sovereignty. So that's really how Muhammad plays. He gets in, he promises a bunch of stuff, and then when it's no longer helpful, like supporting Somalia's government, he does the opposite. And I think we have to ask ourselves, how's this going to play out in America? I mean, we have a big problem right now with artificial intelligence. We have data centers in our states. We have Washington, thanks to the Jewish scientist David Sachs, who's advising President Trump, who's saying we can run roughshod. Washington can run roughshod over state regulations, and President Trump is issuing these executive orders. States can't control what kind of AI comes into their territories. And now you have the United Arab Emirates, which is brilliant at playing provinces and the government off against each other. Now you have the Emirates involved in investing. Well, I mean, are we going to see the United Arab Emirates making deals only with states. They've made deals with Oklahoma to invest in a manufacturing hub worth $4 billion. Until support of Oklahoma, are they going to start playing Washington against the state governors? You know, Republicans versus Democrats? We don't know. What we know is that this guy is very good at running this playbook in other places. I mean, Somalia is a federal republic. I mean, it. It's doesn't work very well for it, but it's based on some principles of federalism. So are we. I mean, he could easily run that play here, you know, using the very lobbying mechanisms and the money that served him so well in the past.

[A]

Yeah, well, look, I'm glad we got you on the case for it. At least what I do with this article so I can tell everybody about it again. But the. I have it here somewhere in one of these dang tabs. I couldn't tell you which tab.

[B]

It's.

[A]

It's at the Libertarian Institute. You know the institute? Libertarian institute.org Matt Wolson about the UAE America and Israel's Frankenstein monster. Everybody go read it and then spam your friends with it. Thank you for coming on the show, Matt. Appreciate it.

[B]

Thank you. And Scott, can I just say, the Libertarian Institute keeps getting better. I mean, and I'm not just talking about myself. You have Brant Burleson. You have Thomas Carrot, who I knew independently of this. I mean, the people you're getting are just. Just incredible. Yeah.

[A]

Is it great?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And years this year. Libertarian.org everybody.

[B]

That's amazing. I'm so honored to be a part. Thank you.

[A]

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