Is the story of a power struggle between 3 princes 3 rulers who all came to power between 20132015 in the richest Oil Monarchies of the world saudi arabia qatar and the United Arab Emirates. A generation with unbridled ambition and dreams of shaping the future of the arab world. These are people who think that this power is given to them forever so its clear that these powerful men are just like spoiled children. The rivalry between these 3 men has plunged the gulf region into a crisis like no other. Mohamed bin son or m. P. S. Is the youngest he rules saudi arabia his favorite pastime is 1st person shooter video games. Mama been so money hes someone who lives in this area world where you know you can control this entire game with a joystick you are the master of death and live. I think in the us whats remarkable about him is each shoot 1st you know and and ask questions were. Hailed as a reformer by the west rio its new strongman demonstrated his brutality as soon as he assumed power by declaring a war in yemen. The conflict her. Already claimed the lives of tens of thousands of. Lives. On the Arabian Peninsula on the borders of the saudi kingdom mohammed bin someone has found a useful ally mohammed bin zayed or m. B. Said. Hes the crown prince of abu dhabi and rules the United Arab Emirates. Mohammed bin. Zayed is a military man his mindset is very militaristic he uses the army as a means to gain more power. Along with their own particular has paranoia about being surrounded by people who cannot trust. Him with the tanks moved. On. To stablish their dominance in the middle east m. B. s and m. B. Said identified an enemy that needed to be defeated. This unpopular neighbor is accused of collusion with Islamist Groups and having close relations with iran. But one of the biggest grievances with time in our fanny the emir of qatar is how is that a shadow of the other 2 by staging the next football world cup in qatar. Because of the princes of the gulf states know each other well there is this clash of ambitions the Party Explains the crisis in relations between qatar and certain of its neighbors. In the gulf criticizing the royal family is considered treason punishable by prison or even death. No one has dared to send saudi journalist john mark a shot he was murdered in the saudi consulate. In istanbul. His crime publicly criticizing m. B. s the crown prince of saudi arabia. Today only foreign observers are able to freely discuss these personal quarrels which often evolve into state affairs and upsets the geopolitical balance. The gulf is far away from most for most europeans geographically but since the arab spring with the old powerhouses of egypt syria libya and also iraq obviously earlier collapsing and disintegrating and disappearing the new powerhouses of the arab world are on the gulf. Billy from you heard the ruling families of the gulf are in fact tribes who gradually rose to power in the 18th 19th and 20th centuries and given to him 6 these families were living as bad winds and essentially nomadic existence with little other than small scale farming and fishing that they should. Lavish as. The wealth and prosperity of any businessman was measured by the number of camels he have he did. Look like a lucky old something that all the gulf countries have in common is the fact that up until the 1st oil crisis in 1973 they remained relatively poor with this but for the. Change obviously came quite quickly and almost brutally i would say. In the new leaders who rose to power in the 20 tens represented a generational shift unlike their fathers they had no memory of the harsh lives their families had lead in the desert they were born into a life of wealth and opulence. They extravagant crown prince of saudi arabia is rumored to have bought the most expensive painting in the world to solve it on monday by leonardo da vinci. For all that 1000000. 00 is a bit odd that this is so. It was allegedly a gift for his friend and ally m. B. Said the crown prince of abu dhabi who opened his own Louvre Museum designed by the architect of. The same french architect was commissioned by qatar as well family to design the brand new National Museum in doha. There is a sort of political one upmanship in terms of which and where it will invest the most in museums for example or other cultural endeavors. And this rivalry between these emirates is to determine who is more committed to efforts to modernize. States know very well that one day the oil will run out and that they now need to attract capital advertising and tourists. The 43 need to have the city with the tallest building in the world or the most expensive or the curious. Yeah its a childish race to be the biggest and the best. Without fail were dealing with monarchs who are driven by a need for power who have an enormous amount of hubris that kind of pride. And a country that is so small and yet so rich must spend vast amounts of money to attract the spotlights. And so in 2013 when tom in the funny came to power in cars then the facing 3 year old sports enthusiast inherited the task of staging the worlds most watched sports event. Were very proud that were going to be hosting the world cup in 2022 this world cup is for all the arabs and. They will be successful we said that this whole world cup is for all the arabs and thats why were successful thats a big challenge. Thanks to its wealth from oil and natural gas at the pub these football club. And some of the worlds most expensive play is to boost the reputation of this country with just 2600000 inhabitants. To school as a way for qataris to gain unparalleled publicity. In which everyone loves sport its broadcast 24 hours a day all over the world investing in sport is investing in visibility its the way to get fast recognition. To. Those decisions are not questioned on the streets of doha nor are the scandals that accompany the sport based diplomacy the accusations of corruption and the many deaths on the Building Sites of the world cup stadiums. We are in the other steps now forgot that other little know Something Special you know the 1st arab country and you know its going to be historic like saudi but he is the 1st to take this sort of result for the world cup so. We would be jealous. Of the folks at the end of the last world cup a saudi newspaper printed a very telling headline 2018 world cup is over see you for the next one in 2026. Of course whats implied is that the 2022 world cup doesnt exist this anecdote shows that its hard to swallow for the other i mean rotty political elites. Didnt. Force any of. The release of the neighboring countries could no longer stand to watch matches on qatari channels so they decided to attack one of the flagships. Sports enterprise. And all of a sudden a ghost channel appeared a broadcaster no one had heard of until. Thats called a q. Its a mocking of the name of being so is the opposite of being is b. Out to mean is that simple and they add a q. On the end to represent guitar so b. Out. This is so you see in school seems to me to long to list 32 seconds and 6 seconds. To teach the piece. That means. You think you see this its easier. To see you cant see the n. B. A. The n. F. L. The super bowl final every sport you can think of is being pirated we dont exactly know whos behind it but its a saudi entity so the it is pirated from saudi arabia be in is claiming 1000000000. 00 euros in damages plus interest and has filed a complaint with the world trade organization. This is piracy on an unseen scale and its by no means harmless it reveals the rifts in the gulf and the conflict that has been destabilizing an entire every chance. For us to better understand this tension between tom email fanny on the one side and mohamed bin salman and mohammed bin zayed on the other we have to go back several years. That is the real split in the region stems from the arab spring. I know you know. Its not so subtle to worry princes came to power after the start of the arab spring. Funny in 2030. 2040 mm and mohammed bin simon in 2015 did you get all of these rulers into. Did the arab spring and their political strategies relinquish its determinants. When the arab spring began the 1st reaction of the 3 countries saudi arabia qatar and the u. A. E. Was to increase the salaries of all Civil Servants and. I think for the gulf monarchies. Certainly for m. B. A. s and for n. B. C. They are horrified by by the arab spring its like man theyre coming for us and we got it we got a real. Bonus question qatar didnt feel threatened by the arab spring mainly because its the smallest of the 3 countries in terms of population there are simply not enough people to form an organized opposition which is true organising. City would be its the least populated of the 3 countries but also the richest qatar has one of the highest g. D. P. Per capita on the planet. So the motivation to challenge the power of the of funny family is extremely low or even nonexistent. In existence. The emir of qatar and the royal family there their reaction the arab spring is very different in some ways its like more sophisticated they thought you know we got to this is a big way of common and weve got to get on that wave and ride it you know and thats the only way were going to survive because we cant fight. And console has its own unique way of influencing the course of history the most watched news channel in the arab world. I think without aljazeera the arab spring wouldnt have run as smoothly lets put it that way. Aljazeera isnt. City that is obviously state owned it was set up in 1906 as part of the vision of the older media to cause someone to liberalize Civil Society in the op was it was all about you know allowing people to speak up against or for terror and oppression for example across the region aljazeera was obviously giving a voice to anyone and aljazeera you could be a shia radical and you could speak you could be a sunni radical you could speak. Of limbaugh well i live. In the uk. Where i might have gotten this far. This cold to murder the libyan dictator was made by one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood a political refugee and. So the feeling was that aljazeera was increasingly trying to give voice to opponents of the arab world in particular to the Muslim Brotherhood was. The catelli is have also financed and islamist movements in libya and syria and internees and egypt they have contributed to the electoral victories of the Muslim Brotherhood. The. Saudis and immoralities have seen how they worst enemies gain power and do everything to overthrow them. The 2 countries staked everything on the return of the military in order to eliminate the Muslim Brotherhood. In egypt they chose to support general elsisi and guarantee him financial aid. Under his command the Egyptian Army staged a coup that ended and the blood. The egyptian regime took revenge on him by sentencing a team of al jazeera records his 23 years in prison. Sick and thats how the rich deepened on the Arabian Peninsula between qatar on the one hand and saudi arabia and United Arab Emirates on the other. Was a hawk in the United Arab Emirates theres an extreme concentration of power in the hands of the crown prince of abu dhabi who is reined in all his brothers. From the mohammed bin zayed 1st project was to create a credible army and to focus all its military strategy around the protection of its borders but thats one of the last. Model hamad bin zayed attended centers the prestigious British Military academy he has a pretty near like side to his personality hes very determined. Mohammed things ziad has always been fascinated by new military technology and every 2 years he organizes what is now the largest worldwide. Opens up for solo side of this arms fair really is and disease baby more is which is why he always goes there without fail and visit each of the stats showing just how much he is in his element in this environment and that is. Using his checkbook to claim his see the crown prince himself a former head of. The pilot has managed to attract plenty of western sympathy. The United Arab Emirates has become one of the most militarized countries per capita on the planet spending billions of euros each here. Was in the in the emirates there was one battle tank for 2100 people in france there is one battle tank or 250000 people. The prince likes to present his also in displays of power the goal is to impress governments around the world. Is. It. True face of as a prince who wants to extend his influence beyond the borders of his country he wants to become a charismatic leader in the arab muslim world they are. Shared. You are doing. Mohammed bin ziad wants to become the western worlds most important ally in the fight against islamist terror. In this effort to court western how is he profits from his nations image as a tax haven and a major tourist destination. To buy has become famous for its artificial islands its Luxury Hotels and its tolerant lifestyle. During state visits the crown prince always puts on an impressive show with a military parade in the colors of the on it guest. Under the cloak of my identity and liberalism mohammed had welcomed the pope with all the pomp and ceremony that one would expect it was the 1st time that a country on the Arabian Peninsula had hosted his holiness this display was of course meant to demonstrate that the u. A. E. Was open to the world and all its religions and treats none of its stance in b. C. From the ruling is kingdom with an iron fist. As ambitious as m. B. Is that is hes always known his country is too small to play in the major league he needed an ally and he found it in saudi arabia. Mohamed bin sayed so mohammed bin sons rise to power as an amazing opportunity because the saudis rulers shadd the same political goal as the way namely an autocratic modernization. Because he wants saudi life to become more liberal to reduce the role of religion in society and to modernize the countrys economic infrastructure that you could be. Saudi arabia has a population of 30000000. 00 and is completely dependent on its oil exports a resource which is diminishing year after year. The country needs to diversify and m. P. S. Is ready to face the challenge. Hes a big guy hes very dynamic you know he walks into the room everybody stops talking. Streaming of. What that would eat and a father to have a wall. To match myself and i dont i think that the now the other side with me everybody. Is a modern charismatic guy. Who looks women in the eye. Shakes their hands. Very direct and thats a very thats a thing that westerners. You met all these big venture capitalists and so from valley. On his trip to the United States he just kind of the out everybody. Hes been portrayed as a hothead hes impulsive hes not very strategic in his decisions hes very childish sometimes and that definitely applies to most up in salon. Not just 29 years of age m. B. A. s became the worlds youngest defense minister and immediately his focus turned towards the old enemy missile for the saudis the existential threat in the region is a real. And how to for you see the. Other place in the form of the even the at the smaller concert here. So what i mean you could come up with kind of the whole feel less of syria. And yet nothing but here is a very strong rivalry between iran and saudi arabia who both opposes the 2 great powers of the gulf and what really disturbs saudi arabia is the expansionism of revolutionary she is in. The song they feel totally surrounded by iran who has a heavy presence in iraq. In lebannon syria. And of course in yemen it with the who teens. And early 2015 m. P. s took over the reins as commander in chief of the saudi military at the same time the goofys and local shiite and probably ran militia seized yemens capital sanaa. Was. The crown prince to this to mean that a van was effectively a presence in the southern border of the saudi kingdom. Come mohammed and simon this when my men didnt sound money aside to intervene in yemen the idea was to signal his arrival in power by showing that under his rule saudi arabia was not a country to mess with. Your general mohsen. Believe comet back. In the spirit of the mikhail b i love serbia can. Get even. Less than a one dome. Not must finish the 3 goals you assad. M. P. s knew he could count on the support of his ally m. B. He said and his well equipped army to support him in this nearly declared war on. The table sure to be any rotty intervention in yemen allowed them to exhibit that military power on the wild stage. When the emirates went into yemen it was a quite a quite impressive i know impressed lot of people there like you know wow. Im on his way and. Very impressive operation maybe this wont be so bad i think that all changed very quickly. Was. Oh. No no no the both of they are killing soldiers civilian policemen many Common People they are targeting universities many molo the saudi regime is killing students. They are the terrorists. Then the system was taken bombs to kingdom come we will Never Surrender our small son our most islam. Because. The war in yemen is going terribly off. The massive humanitarian crisis we have colorado fana pots and i. See mixed up its a terrible mess the saudis and their emissary allies are really burnt down in it its a bit like their vietnam war. It is anti iranian obsession of the saudis is not necessarily shared by the other monarchies of the Arabian Peninsula the country said we dont want to get involved in the other or the country military did is they will move to southern yemen to to help the saudis protect their southern border but they didnt get involved in the air war and putting boots on the ground in the same way that the iraqis or the saudis did. You can as a result guitar is considered by saudi arabia and abu dhabi as being too close to tehran. To. Look at the video but. Does iran share an offshore gas field in northern qatar in the persian gulf. The image that the most inevitably that requires a certain amount of cooperation with iran is going to qatar cant. Border breakdown in relations with iran as it would be against its own financial interest. These disagreements over iran were added to by the tensions rising from the arab spring. In the gulf. Found itse