4/9/26 Matt Wolfson on Underappreciated Danger of the United Arab Emirates

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Scott Horton

News, Politics

4.8 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Scott interviews Matt Wolfson about an article he recently wrote about the United Arab Emirates. Wolfson argues that the US and Israel have helped build up the UAE into a regional power with an increasingly interventionist foreign policy of its own. Discussed on the show: “The United Arab Emirates: America and Israel’s Frankenstein Monster” (The Libertarian Institute) “In Strategic Shift, U.S. Draws Closer to Yemeni Rebels” (Wall Street Journal) “US maintains intelligence relationship with Houthis” (Al-Monitor) “U.S. intelligence report says key gulf ally meddled in American politics” (Washington Post) Matt Wolfson is an investigative journalist whose work has appeared in The American Conservative, The Epoch Times, Restoration of America News, and many others. Follow him on Twitter (X) @Oppo__Research and find his full body of work at his website. Audio cleaned up with the Podsworth app: https://podsworth.com Use code HORTON50 for 50% off your first order at Podsworth.com to clean up your voice recordings, sound like a pro, and also support the Scott Horton Show! For more on Scott's work: Check out The Libertarian Institute: https://www.libertarianinstitute.org Check out Scott's other show, Provoked, with Darryl Cooper https://youtube.com/@Provoked_Show Read Scott's books: Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine https://amzn.to/47jMtg7 (The audiobook of Provoked is being published in sections at https://scotthortonshow.com) Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism: https://amzn.to/3tgMCdw Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan https://amzn.to/3HRufs0 Follow Scott on X @scotthortonshow And check out Scott’s full interview archives: https://scotthorton.org/all-interviews This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Incorporated https://rrbi.co Moon Does Artisan Coffee https://scotthorton.org/coffee; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom https://www.libertyclassroom.com/dap/a/?a=1616 and Dissident Media https://dissidentmedia.com You can also support Scott’s work by making a one-time or recurring donation at https://scotthorton.org/donate/https://scotthortonshow.com or https://patreon.com/scotthortonshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen of the press have been less than honest, reporting to the American people, what's going on in this country?
0:11.0	Because the babies are making it.
0:13.0	We're dealing with Hitler Revisited.
0:15.0	This is the Scott Horton Show, Libertarian Foreign Policy, mostly.
0:21.7	When the president doesn't, that means that it is not a legal.
0:24.5	We're going to take out seven countries in five years.
0:27.0	They don't know what the fuck they're doing.
0:29.3	Negotiate now.
0:31.4	End this war.
0:33.5	And now, here's your host, Scott Horton.
0:39.3	All right, you guys.
0:41.1	Introducing again, Matt Wolfson.
0:43.2	He's a regular writer for us at the Libertarian Institute.
0:48.5	And he has his own website, which is oppo research.com.
0:53.6	And that's his name on X there too. You can follow. And welcome
0:56.5	back to the show. How you know? It's great to see you. It's opo dash research online.
1:01.6	Apollo underscore underscore on Twitter. That's the only way I could make them work. It's great to see
1:06.7	it. Too hard to say, though, right? All the underscores. Just for Twitter, it up Matt Wolfson oppo research it's on there um it's great to see you thank you absolutely yeah great to have you here hey man so uh this piece is really well done you do such thorough work um i love all your articles and i'm afraid to knit, but I will because I don't like lying about stuff.
1:29.5	I didn't even get a chance to finish this thing.
1:31.3	I got about two-thirds of the way through though, I think.
1:34.3	And it's just so in depth.
1:35.3	There's so much here that I'll just let you go ahead and take us through it.
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