Ambassador Marc Sievers

Be Reid Wiseman He’s a hardworking single father of two girls whose wife passed from cancer 6 years ago, and his daughters supported his becoming one of the farthest-travelled human beings in history as Artemis II mission commander This man is a great example for fathers

Statement by Ambassador Mohamed Abushahab:

Israel at noon.

Petrodollar is here to stay, there is no multipolar world, Gulf countries are reinforcing U.S. posture in Middle East, this is just the reality of things. No amount of wishful thinking will hide simple facts.

The Greater and Lesser Tunbs, and Abu Musa—invaded by Pahlavi Iran a month before the Emirates united into the UAE. Legally they are Emirati and occupied. I don’t see why not.

When Saddam invaded Kuwait half the Arab world stood with him That forced us to host American bases in our countries And today when we face the Iranians those same people unchanged, come out saying: we’ll stand with Iran because you have American bases No matter how much we helped No matter how much we fight for you No matter how much we shared "Beware the EVIL of the one you have done good to" To that we say No More... hopefully No more Arab League, No more OIC in the future The UAE stands proud & alone , only way is up

⚠️Crisis in Europe: Russia announces that unless Europe stops Ukraine from launching an attack on its rapidly massing missile forces, they will attack France with a mass salvo of missiles and drones. In recent hours, Russian missile forces have been detected massing on its borders with Estonia, Latvia, Belarus and Ukraine and senior Russian officials in Moscow, including President Putin, Foreign Minister Lavrov, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, and Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces General Valery Gerasimov have said a Ukrainian attack will trigger a mass salvo aimed at Paris, Toulouse, Douville and Nice among other major French locales. The Elysee is in emergency consultations with leading legal scholars tonight to determine of France may treat Moscow’s conditional coercion as an imminent threat, or should Macron try to stop Ukraine from attacking Russian missile positions because that is an objective non-forcible alternative? The Ukrainians are watching the same massing of missile forces and regard it as an imminent threat, because the Russians have openly stated that they intended to wipe Ukraine out with their next mass salvo -- but they have not launched an attack, yet. If France attacks now is it anticipatory self-defense or an illegal preventative attack on Russia? Paris maintains strong sway over Kyiv, which is not a Nato ally -- so if Elysee does not at least attempt to halt a Ukrainian offensive, will international legal scholars decide they did not exhaust peaceful alternatives? Will France break with the strict Caroline test of international law and launch a War of Choice, or will it attempt to coerce Ukraine to forgo its self defensive rights? Unnamed sources have revealed that Macron’s senior advisors have proposed a “third way”: evacuate temporarily to Britain. Leading international scholars explain that the UN Charter prohibits both the use and the threat of force, and the ICJ’s Nuclear Weapons opinion states that if the contemplated use of force would be unlawful, the threat is unlawful as well. A conditional missile and drone salvo against France to compel France and Europe to restrain Ukraine would plainly fail that test. That said, there is an important doctrinal distinction between an imminent threat and an imminent armed attack. France characterizes Russia’s conduct as an unlawful and acute threat. Yet the harder question is whether France may use force first. The orthodox view is that anticipatory self-defence remains exceptional and turns on necessity, proportionality, and a showing that the armed attack is operationally imminent, not simply that the coercive threat is grave. The Nicaragua judgment reaffirmed necessity and proportionality as customary constraints on self-defence, while Article 51 preserves the inherent right of individual and collective self-defence when an armed attack occurs. Many contemporary lawyers read that framework to permit action in the last feasible window before an imminent attack, but not a looser preventive war against a dangerous future possibility. Heated debates are ongoing but sources indicate Macron has instructed L’Armee Francais to mobilize, arguing that the sheer scale of the threatened salvo and the inherent unreliability of Moscow's political conditions render the Russian threat operationally imminent. Ryan Goodman and a team of leading international legal scholars at Just Security are already calling Macron’s moves “disheartening signs that France will launch yet another War of Choice.” Updates to follow.