[Lazamataz]

W is showing the world we want to be business partners with new progressive Middle-Eastern emerging quasi-democracies.

You have effectively articulated the ONLY possible defense.

I don't know enough about the UAE to be sure, however. I thought they had a monarch?

[MineralMan]

"I don't know enough about the UAE to be sure, however. I thought they had a monarch?"

You are correct, sir. And this monarch is the son of the previous monarch.