Gavin Knight

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If anything can draw world attention on the extraordinary cruelty towards women and children in Sudan by the UAE-backed RSF it is Arsenal fans talking about it and raising it with the club.

UAE — through Emirates, Etihad, and other state vehicles — consistentLKY targets prestigious Western cultural institutions: the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the Guggenheim, Premier League clubs, Formula 1. The pattern is too deliberate and political. The goal is reputation laundering, not selling plane tickets

Emirates is inseparable from the state
The state uses the sponsorship for geopolitical purposes, not commercial ones. The profitability itself rests on a foundation of state privilege

There are only threads about Arsenal & football. No one wants to mention UAE funding the club and also RSF committing unbelievable war crimes in #Sudan.

Emirates is not a publicly listed private company. It is wholly owned by the Dubai government. There are no independent shareholders, no separation between the airline and the state. The profits don’t go to private investors — they flow back into state coffers which fund brutal war crimes & famine

True. But Putin and Iran must have discussed the scenario many times and may even had sea mines ready to go.

As an Arsenal fan and Arsenal historian have you no concerns and nothing to say in defence of your club‘s UAE funding being also linked to extraordinary humanitarian crisis in Sudan ?

10/ The free world is facing simultaneous crises in Eastern Europe and the Middle East — and they are not unconnected. This is what coordinated authoritarian strategy looks like. The question is whether democracies are fast enough to see it. /END

9/ Western intelligence agencies need to be asking loudly and publicly: what did Russia know, what did Russia encourage, and what did Russia promise Iran in return? The alignment of interests here is clear

8/ Putin has always bet that time is on his side. A distracted America. A financially exhausted Europe. A war economy flush with oil money. The Strait of Hormuz crisis just handed him the best week he’s had since 2022

7/ Ukraine is watching this in real time. Every U.S. naval asset in the Gulf is one less deterrent to Putin‘s escalation. Every billion in extra oil revenue is more ammunition, more drones, more recruits for the front line.

6/ The West spent 3 years building a sanctions architecture to starve Russia’s war economy. It took Iran approximately one week to blow a hole straight through it. If you think that’s a coincidence, consider the evidence

5/ Classic Russian deniability. No fingerprints. No sanctions. No consequences. Just a crisis in a different region that — conveniently — does everything Moscow needed: diverts U.S. military assets, floods the Kremlin with cash, splits Western attention.

4/ Iran has supplied Russia with Shahed drones used to kill Ukrainian civilians. Russia has given Iran advanced military technology in return. These are not rivals. They are partners. Keep that in mind.

3/ Every $10 rise in oil price hands Russia ~$20 BILLION extra per year. If prices hit $150 and stay there? That’s a $50-100B windfall flowing straight into Putin’s war machine. Sanctions? Effectively neutralized — in a single week.

2/ Iran just mined the world’s most critical oil chokepoint. Oil is spiking toward $120+. Global markets are in panic. But ask yourself: who benefits most? Spoiler: it’s not Iran

The most uncomfortable question nobody is asking about the Strait of Hormuz crisis. 1/

the UAE’s financial fingerprints are all over the club. Emirates Airline holds naming rights to the stadium and kit sponsorships, and Dubai-based real estate giant Sobha Realty recently rebranded the club’s training ground as the Sobha Realty Training Centre.

Both Emirates Airlines and Sobha Realty are UAE state-linked brands, not independent private companies.UAE has provided financial, political, and military support to the RSF. Almost 97% of Sudan’s official gold exports went to the UAE in 2024, earning $1.52 billion

Both clubs are guilty.

‘Extraordinary cruelty’: images show longterm ‘starvation strategy’ in Sudan Experts argue sensor and satellite data reveal targeted attacks by the Rapid Support Forces on farming communities were intended to prevent villages producing food

Arteta’s #Arsenal are funded by UAE who fund the RSF committing war crimes of staggering cruelty in #Sudan. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘Extraordinary cruelty’: images show longterm ‘starvation strategy’ in Sudan Experts argue sensor and satellite data reveal targeted attacks by the Rapid Support Forces on farming communities were intended to prevent villages producing food

UAE who fund #Arsenal also fund the RSF who are guilty of extraordinarily cruel war crimes in #Sudan. How can this club sportswash the worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Makes sense. A tax on assets. Does that include the Duchy of Cornwall which made a £30m surplus for the Duke of Cornwall.

The Duchy of Cornwall made a £30 million surplus this year so can pay for it. Duke of Cornwall sent no words of support when Storm Gorretti leave thousands without water or power. But he did come down months later and sell a few pasties so that’s ok

She means: We believe in international rules and institutions, but we can’t just hope they protect us — Europe needs to be able to defend itself. major shift towards rearming. 800 bn committed. Breaking away from reliance on US to defend us

High oil price fuelling Russia’s war chest helping them destroy #Ukraine

3 days of water for most Gulf States without these plants. Mass exodus of expats as cities become uninhabitable without water. Even if air defence takes out 90% of an Iranian drone swarm of 50, it only takes 5 drone hits to shut it down.

Because Reform are high in the polls because the media keep giving them airtime. Repeat.

Russian war chest boosted by higher oil prices - thanks to Trump.
News focussed on Iran not Russia - thanks to Trump.
Russia giving Iran intel on US targets - no interest to Trump