Today seems very... active. Anyone actually beginning to get concerned or is it really business as usual for everyone?

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Anyone who tells you it’s normal is either delusional or has nowhere better to escape to (eg Lebanon)

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They hurt everybody. Yet to find a decent Lebanese

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I don’t think this will end anytime soon, and it will likely wipe out what remains of the market. It makes sense to relocate and start building the platform elsewhere

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The only thing really is that dxb is not really reliable anymore. 10s of evac flights were scheduled to take off today and tomorrow, but I guess the majority got cancelled.

I'm telling my client in riyadh to send me a camel if its time to babysit him

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Yeah I believe even Andrew Tate left DXB. He sort of gave me hope in the last video that Dubai is for winners and only cowards are leaving…

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What? He is THE benchmark of true men. 🦾

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