Bin Zayed’s regional fantasy is collapsing in real time. The master plan? In ruins.
Somalia torches UAE deals and evicts its bases without a backward glance.
Riyadh reenergised under a newly assertive prince Mohamed Bin Salman doesn’t even bother to consult Abu Dhabi as it drags President Erdogan into a shiny new security axis running from Yemen through the Red Sea to Sudan and Somalia.
The message is clear: the adults are back in the room, and Abu Dhabi isn’t invited.
Meanwhile in Yemen, the UAE’s signature creation, the STC doesn’t merely weaken, it implodes: bombed into irrelevance, politically dissolved, and openly defecting to Riyadh.
A proxy force so brittle it couldn’t survive the first serious gust of Saudi pressure.
What took Abu Dhabi a decade of money, militias, and media spin to assemble is unraveling in days.
No coalition scrambles to save it. No friendly capital offers to mediate. No phone calls, no lifelines just a quiet regional consensus that Bin Zayed overplayed his hand.
The era of freelancing mini-empires is ending, and the bill has finally come due.
Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki called the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s ruling party: lazy, beggar (destitute), coward and greedy.
• ሰነፍ (Tigrigna): meaning lazy in English
• ነዳይ (Tigrigna): meaning beggar. In Amharic: ለማኝ
• ፈራሕ (Tigrigna): meaning coward/fearful/timid. In Amharic: ፈሪ
• ስሱዕ (Tigrigna): meaning greedy. In Amharic: ስግብግብ
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