manwithnoname

uae pm Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has donated $2.5 million dollars to the Victorian Bushfire Relief fund. Maktoum recently bought the Woodlands Stud empire, the largest in Australia, for $US 420 million.

good on him, dosen't sound like his tightened his belt

Eva

:curse::curse::curse::curse:


oh yeh, lovely,great, what a brick, good egg .

Chris79

Yeah, I agree. He'd have been better injecting the money into his own country and looking after the people here.

Blue Cat

apparenlty he spent 10 million dhs on arms this week as well, what are they thinking

shiva

revolution?

shiva

more seriously though, thats all part of the deal with the west. we dont invade, support your govts etc but you gotta buy arms from our maufacturers regardless of whether you actually can or will use them. KSA is a case in point, i've never added it up but they must have thousands of us, uk, french etc made fighter jets just sitting in sheds as every year they seem to buy more and lets face it the saudi national air guard arent exactly world renowned as the largest air force on the planet, probably have enough planes for it though

Blue Cat

it just seems so senseless Shiva, the place is falling apart at the seems and they waste money (in my opinion) on this sort of crap. They have even bought new fighter planes. So disappointing.

Chris79

Maybe they just want to get rid of us all.
I know I am getting very pis$ed off with life over here at the moment!

Hello.Kitty

yeah, sure, but that's the mentality of a supreme ruler - the whole "let them eat cake" thing.

Blue Cat

what's up?

Chris79

Nothing to worry about hun. I'm just having one of those crappy weeks at work (at least I still have a job). I'm not moaning (don't want anyone to shout at me!)
How are you anyhow?

Blue Cat

all fine here, DH waiting to start new job

Chris79

Nice one. Glad alls going well.

Blue Cat

me too

bimcnorth

Off-sets are creating jobs within UAE, apart from the fact that it´s actually Abu Dhabi paying for the federal army who is top-notch when it comes to equipment and firepower.

I guess some people here would be surprised to know that UAE will soon have a more sophisticated anti-missile system than UK with the new THAAD system that are able to take out missiles in space..to compliment their old HAWK and new PATRIOT system.

Why we might ask, the reason is the first gulf war. When Iraq invaded Kuwait the UAE military lacked any ability to deliver a strike for Kuwait, and the UAE leadership saw themselves very much in Kuwaits situation regarding potentially aggresive neighbours..Since then Sh. Mo bin Zayed have steadily built a military strikeforce able to inflict enormous damage all over the middle east if necessary.