ROTFL!I’ve worked in the Middle East too. You can say the same of many places; Qatar’s Sidra complex is an astonishing development but the conditions of the foreigners who built it are awful. Dubai isn’t much better.
Abu Dhabi, out of the three, comes across as the better place to live in the region. I know several teams of guys from Pune and Mumbai working in Abu Dhabi.
Ultimately, how a country treats its own people or its foreign labor is its problem until it becomes genocide and is creating a humanitarian crisis.
Invading a country to fix its internal messes is never the right answer, but if thousands of people are fleeing death squads or foreign invaders, creating problems for other countries, that’s where the UN is meant to step in.
Russia could’ve stuck to the peacekeeping narrative between 2014 and 2022, admitted it had forces in Ukraine, and cooperated with OCSE and UN... but instead it did nothing to end the civil war in the Donbas, it denied putting anyone into Ukraine (when Minsk required that acknowledgement), and its broadcast media, diplomats, Duma, and press, keep changing the story.
Today it’s NATO expansion. Yesterday it was biolabs. The day before, it’s Putin’s vision of a “reunification” of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia that only Russia has a hard-on for, last week it was Russkyi Mir and the week before that it was Nazis.
My car’s indicators go on and off slower than Rossiya 1 switches from “we love the Ukrainian people, language and culture really, we’re BROTHERS” to “Wipe out the dirty khokols” and”let’s nuke London, Paris, Berlin and a few American cities”.
If that’s not in line with Putin’s intention then a good critical thinking step is to ask, why he’s not exactly bending over backwards to tell the Duginist Chauvinist extremists to dial down the genocide enthusiasm.
He’s got an iron grip on the Kremlin narrative and people can be thrown in jail for holding up an anti war placard. But a Duma deputy calling repeatedly for mass genocide on live TV and attributing his rants to what the Dear Leader wants, doesn’t even merit a mild bollocking from the Kremlin.
One might be inclined to think, Putin really doesn’t mind the Russian people thinking he’s genocidal, and likes them thinking he is showing Ukraine and the West great munificence by not preemptively nuking anybody.
ROTFL!