“Depart now” Marco Rubio urges Americans to exit the Middle East. US Nationals are trying to leave as Trump Regime’s conflict spreads. Normally, a competent government has a plan in place to assist Americans fleeing a war zone before actually CREATING that war zone. And as Americans scramble to safety with no help from our State Dept and very few commercial flights available in the region, that special class we call billionaires just take private flights.
Mora Namdar, the state department’s assistant secretary for consular affairs, said US citizens should leave using available commercial transportation “due to safety risks”. The US has not organised its own evacuation flights.
There are a very few commercial flights leaving the area. The few that exist are from Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
In contrast, UK nationals have a functional government, leadership and state department doing their best:
In the UK, the prime minister, Keir Starmer, said the government was sending rapid deployment teams to the region to support British nationals there, and wanted “to ensure that they can return home as swiftly and safely as possible”.
Meanwhile, as the unwashed masses try to escape:
Private Jet Prices Soar For Wealthy Tourists Desperate To Leave Dubai
Travelers stranded in the United Arab Emirates after missile and drone attacks from Iran forced the closure of the Dubai airport are paying upwards of $140,000 for flights on private jets and driving more than 10 hours to open airports in attempts to leave the region as war breaks out.www.forbes.com/...
Won’t someone shed a tear for the hedge fund tax-dodging parasites who set up shop in Dubai thinking it was a safe haven:
“Moved to Qatar to hide from taxes now I am hiding from Missiles,” a worker in the finance sector, who has been documenting the volleys of Iranian airstrikes from his balcony, quipped on X.
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I mean, this is not what billionaires signed up for when they moved to Dubai:
“We have been exploring how to evacuate people but it’s not easy. It’s pretty scary — this is going to have implications for some of my guys . . . The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai. It was not a consideration. People have moved families. This element of concern is new.”
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