This is the story of a power struggle between 3 princes 3 rulers who all came to power between 20132015 in the richest Oil Monarchies of the world saudi arabia qatar and the United Arab Emirates. A generation with unbridled ambition and dreams of shaping the future of the arab world. These are people who think that this power is given to them forever so its clear that these powerful men are just like spoiled children. The rivalry between these 3 men has plunged the gulf region into a crisis like no other. At 34 mohammed bin son or m. P. S. Is the youngest he rules saudi arabia his favorite pastime is 1st person shooter video games. Mama been so money hes someone who lives in this old tyria world where you know you can control this entire game with a joystick youre the master of death and live. I think. Whats remarkable about him is ease shoot 1st you know and ask questions were. Hailed as a reformer by the west riyadhs new strongman demonstrated his brutality as soon as he assumed power by declaring a war in yemen. The conflict her. Already claimed the lives of tens of thousands of. Lives. On the Arabian Peninsula or on the borders of the saudi kingdom mohammed bin someone has found a useful ally mohammed bin zayed or m. B. Zed. Hes the crown prince of abu dhabi and rules the United Arab Emirates. Mohammed bin. Ziad is a military man his mindset is very militaristic he uses the army as a means to gain more power. Lobbies own particular has paranoia about being surrounded by people who cannot trust. Him with the tanks little want. To establish their dominance in the middle east m. B. s and m. B. Said identified an enemy that needed to be defeated. This unpopular neighbor is accused of collusion with Islamist Groups and having close relations with iran. But one of the biggest grievances with time in our fanny the emyr of qatar is how his overshadow the other 2 by staging the next football world cup in qatar. Because the princes of the gulf states know each other well there is this clash of ambitions that poly explains the crisis in relations between qatar and certain of its neighbors. In the gulf criticizing the royal family is considered treason punishable by prison or even death. No one has dared to send saudi journalist john marcus shaadi was murdered in the saudi consulate. In istanbul. His crime publicly criticizing m. B. s the crown prince of saudi arabia. Today only foreign observers are able to freely discuss these personal quarrels which often evolve into state affairs and upsets the geopolitical balance. Of. The gulf is far away from most for most europeans geographically but since the arab spring with the old powerhouses of egypt syria libya and also iraq obviously earlier collapsing and disintegrating and disappearing the new powerhouses of the arab world are on the gulf. Belief and you heard the ruling families of the gulf are in fact tribes who gradually rose to power in the 18th 19th and 20th centuries with anything to protect these families were living as bad winds and essentially nomadic existence with little other than small scale farming and fishing that they should have. Relations says made the wealth and prosperity of any businessman was measured by the number of camels he had that he did that song. Look look look you dont leave the hole something that all the gulf countries have in common is the fact that up until the 1st oil crisis in 1973 they remain relatively poor as before the. Change obviously came quite quickly and almost brutally i would say. In the e. U. Leaders who rose to power in the 20 tens represented a generational shift unlike their fathers they had no memory of the harsh lives their families had lead in the desert they were born into a life of wealth and opulence. They extravagant crown prince of saudi arabia is rumored to have bought the most expensive painting in the world to solve it on monday by leonardo da vinci. 400000000. 00 since the period of the paris. So. It was allegedly a gift for his friend and ally m. B. Said the crown prince of abu dhabi who opened his own Louvre Museum designed by the architect. The same french architect was commissioned by qatar as well family to design the brand new National Museum in doha. So that there is a sort of political one upmanship in terms of which emirate will invest the most in museums for example or other cultural endeavors in the end this rivalry between these emirates is to determine who is more committed to efforts to modernize. The states know very well that one day the oil will run out and that they now need to attract capital advertising and tourists. You 43 need to have the city with the tallest building in the world or the most expensive all the curious place you. Yeah its a childish race to be the biggest and the best. Fail were dealing with monarchs who are driven by a need for power who have an enormous amount of hubris that kind of pride. And a country that is so small and yet so rich must spend vast amounts of money to attract the spotlights. And so in 2013 when tommy came to power in cattle then 33 year old sports enthusiast inherited the task of staging the worlds most watched sports event. We are very proud that were going to be hosting the world cup in. 2022 this world cup is for all the arabs it was for they will not be successful we said that this whole world cup is for all the arabs and thats why were successful thats a big challenge. Thanks to its wealth from oil and natural gas at the pub these Football Club and some of the worlds most expensive play is to boost the reputation of this country with just 2600000 inhabitants. Sort as a way for qatar is to gain unparalleled publicity. To lose everyone loves sport its broadcast 24 hours a day all over the world investing in sport is investing in visibility its the way to get fast recognition for. Those decisions are not questioned on the streets of doha nor are the scandals that accompany the sport based diplomacy the accusations of corruption and the many deaths on the Building Sites of the world cup stadiums. We are in the other steps. Other live Something Special you know the 1st arab country and you know its qatar youre going to be historic like saudi but he is the 1st to take this terrorism for the world cup so. He would be jealous. At the end of the last world cup a saudi newspaper printed a very telling headline could 2018 world cup is over see you for the next one in 2026. Of course whats implied is that the 2022 world cup doesnt exist this anecdote shows that its hard to swallow for the iraqi political elites. Is it pretty. Any of. The villages of the neighboring countries could no longer stand to watch matches on qatari channels so they decided to attack one of the flagships. Sports enterprise. And all of a sudden a ghost channel appeared a broadcaster no one had heard of until then thats called. The. Mocking of the name of being so its the opposite of being is be out to me is that simple and they had a queue on the end to represent qatar so be out could talk ok with you this is so you see the school through your media for channel 232 seconds and 6 seconds. To taishi piece. Will be. Soon. This is. Quite some of the n. B. A. The n. F. L. The super bowl final every sport you can think of is being pirated we dont exactly know whos behind it but its a saudi entity so that is pirated from saudi arabia be in is claiming 1000000000. 00 euros in damages plus interest and qatar has filed a complaint with the world trade organization. This is piracy on an unseen scale and its by no means harmless it reveals the rifts in the gulf and the conflict that has been destabilizing an entire every chance. For us to better understand this tension between tom email funny on the one side and mohamed bin salman and mohammed bin zayed on the other we have to go back several years. And the real split in the region stems from the arab spring. No you know. Its not so subtle glory princes came to power after the start of the arab spring. Funny in 203900. 24 team and mohammed bin simon in 2015. All of these rulers included the arab spring and their political strategies. Many of the determinants. When the arab spring began the 1st reaction of the 3 countries saudi arabia qatar and the u. A. E. Was to increase the salaries of all civil servants. I think for the gulf monarchies. Certainly for m. B. A. s and friend busy theyre horrified by by the arab spring its like. Man theyre coming for us and we got it we got a real. Bonus of qatar didnt feel threatened by the arab spring mainly because its the smallest of the 3 countries in terms of population there are simply not enough people to form an organized opposition in the. Same group but its the least populated of the 3 countries but also the richest qatar has one of the highest g. D. P. Per capita on the planet. So the motivation to challenge the power of the unfunny family is extremely low or even nonexistent its. In existence. The. Emir of qatar and the royal family there their reaction the arab spring is very different in some ways its like more sophisticated they thought you know weve got to this is a big wave come in and weve got to get on the web and write it you know and thats the only way were going to survive because we cant fight it. And qatar has its own unique way of influencing the course of history the most watched news channel in the arab world. I think without aljazeera the arab spring wouldnt have run as smoothly lets put it that way. Algis era is an entity that is obviously state owned it was set up in 1906 as part of the vision of the older media to cause someone to liberalize Civil Society in the arab world it was all about you know allowing people to speak up against or for terror and oppression for example across the region al jazeera was always a giving a voice to anyone and aljazeera you could be a shia radical and you could speak there you could be a sunni radical you could speak to. A movie more well you would. I live in. This. This cold to murder the libyan dictator was made by one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood a political refugee and. So the feeling was that aljazeera was increasingly trying to give voice to opponents of the arab world in particular to the Muslim Brotherhood resemble. The guitar use have also financed and islamist movements in libya and syria and internees and egypt they have contributed to the electoral victories of the Muslim Brotherhood. The. Saudis and iraq has have seen how they worst enemies gain power and do everything to overthrow them. The 2 countries staked everything on the return of the military in order to eliminate the Muslim Brotherhood. In egypt they chose to support general elsisi and guarantee him financial aid. Under his command the Egyptian Army staged a coup that ended in a bloodbath. The egyptian regime took revenge on by sentencing a team of al jazeera reports his 23 years in prison. And thats how the rich deepened on the Arabian Peninsula between qatar on the one hand and saudi arabia and the United Arab Emirates on the other. In the United Arab Emirates theres an extreme concentration of power in the hands of the crown prince of abu dhabi who has reigned in all his brothers here. To. Mohammed bin zayed 1st project was to create a credible army and to focus all its military strategy around the protection of its borders but its one of the last. Bins and attended centers the prestigious British Military academy he has a pretty near like side to his personality hes very determined. Mohammed things ayat has always been fascinated by new military technology and every 2 years he organizes what is now the largest worldwide. These arms fair really is a baby more which is why he always goes there without fail and visit each of the stats showing just how much he is in his element in this environment. Using his checkbook to claim his see the crown prince himself a former helicopter pilot has managed to attract plenty of western sympathy. The United Arab Emirates has become one of the most militarized countries per capita on the planet spending billions of euros each here. Was in the in the emirates there is one battle tank for 2100 people in france there is one battle tank or 250000 people. The prince likes to present his arsenal in displays of power the goal is to impress governments around the world. This. Is. The true face of the embassy as a prince who wants to extend his influence beyond the borders of his country he wants to become a charismatic leader in the arab muslim world they are. But weston how is he profits from his nations image as a tax haven and a major tourist destination. To buy has become famous for its artificial islands its Luxury Hotels and its tolerant lifestyle. During state visits the crown prince always puts on an impressive show with a military parade in the colors of the on it guest. Under the cloak of my identity and liberalism mohammedans he had welcomed the pope with all the pomp and ceremony that one would expect and it was the 1st time that a country on the Arabian Peninsula had hosted his holiness this display was of course meant to demonstrate that the u. A. E. Was open to the world and all its religions and dreams none of this stops n. B. C. From really his kingdom with an iron fist. As ambitious as m. B. Is that is hes always known his country is too small to play in the major league he needed an ally and he found it in saudi arabia. Mohamed bin sayed so mohammed bin sons rise to power as an amazing opportunity because the use of these rulers shadd the same political goal as the u. A. E. Namely an autocratic modernization. The notion because he wants saudi life to become more liberal to reduce the role of religion in society and to modernize the countrys economic infrastructure could it be. Saudi arabia has a population of 30000000. 00 and is completely dependent on its oil exports a resource which is diminishing year after year. The country needs to diversify and n. P. s is ready to face the challenge. And hes a big guy hes very dynamic he walks in the room everybody stops talking. Its remember. What that would eat i know part of the at. Most often adam i think that the now that. Hes a modern charismatic guy. Looks women in the. Shakes their hands. Very direct and thats a very thats a thing that westerners. You know that all these ventures big venture capitalists and so from that way. On his trips to the United States. Hes just kind of the out everybody. Hes been portrayed as a hothead hes impulsive hes not very strategic going to decisions hes very childish sometimes that definitely applies to more been someone. That just 29 years of age m. B. A. s became the worlds youngest defense minister and immediately his focus turned towards the old enemy. For the saudis the existential threat in the region is a real. Neither for you see the. Other place in the even though at the smaller concert here but. You could feel this of syria. In there is a very strong rivalry between iran and saudi arabia who both opposes the 2 great powers of the gulf. So what really disturbs saudi arabia is the expansionism of revolutionary she is that. They feel totally surrounded by iran who has a heavy presence in iraq lebannon syria. And of course in yemen it with the who teens. And early 2015 m. P. s took over the reins as commander in chief of the saudi military at the same time those who thiessen local shiite and probably ran militia seized yemens capital sana was the. Thats not the. The the crown prince 2 things to me that are planned with effectively a presence at the southern border of the saudi kingdom. Come mohammed. Since im on this when my men didnt sound money decided to intervene in yemen the idea was to signal his arrival in power by showing that under his rule saudi arabia was not a country to mess with. You cannot be a chicken or how to believe comet back at the speed of the mic ill be i live so there can. Get even. Closer than a one dome i still have. Not must finish the 3 girls you assigned to. M. P. s knew he could count on the suppose of his ally and be he said and his well equipped army to support him in this new declared war. Because it will sure there be any rotty intervention in yemen allowed them to exhibit that military power on the wild stage. When the emirate is going into yemen it was a quite a quite impressive and i know it impress a lot of people that are there are like you know wow. Im on his way and. Very impressive operation maybe this wont be so bad i think that all changed very quickly. Was. Oh. No hello the both of their killing soldiers civilians policemen many Common People they are targeting universities many of the saudi regime is killing students. They are the terrorists. Then the system it was making bombs are now taking them try and we will Never Surrender our house was on our no no says no. Its. The war in yemen its going terribly wrong. A massive humanitarian crisis we have cholera in your family its a knife. You see mixed up its a terrible mess the saudis and their emulating allies are really bad during it its a bit like their vietnam war. It is anti iranian obsession of the saudis is not necessarily shared by the other monarchies of the Arabian Peninsula the country said we dont want to get involved in the other when the country military did is they will move to southern yemen to to help the saudis protect the southern border but they didnt get involved in the air war and putting boots on the ground in the same way that the air atis or the saudis did. Ukraine as a result guitar is considered by saudi arabia and abu dhabi as being too close to tehran. To. Look at the video but so does iran share an offshore gas field in northern qatar in the persian gulf. The image that the most inevitably that requires a certain amount of cooperation with iran is going to qatar concert. Border breakdown in relations with iran as it would be against its own financial interest. These disagreements over iran were added to by the tensions rising from the arab spring. In the gulf. Found itself increasingly isolated what that has done is basically carter diametrically opposed to the sea and so that is like this kind of intense regional conflict basically in these mobs. And thats thats thats. And these tensions between the 3 princes were br