US turns blind eye to UAE’s machinations
The US monitors everyone, apart from Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand, so this exception for a militarily ambition nation is a ‘dereliction of duty’, writes
The United Arab Emirates finances the military leader who is trying to topple a United Nations-recognised government in Libya. It co-leads a coalition of nations that is imposing an economic blockade of Qatar, despite US calls to resolve the dispute. And it hired former staffers of the US National Security Agency as elite hackers for a programme that had Americans as surveillance targets, a Reuters investigation found this year.
