Why Dubai Is in Serious Trouble — And U.S. Allies tell Trump "No" to Helping
The Afterburn Podcast
John "Rain" Waters
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The busiest international airport in the world, Dubai International took a direct drone hit on Monday. |
| 0:05.9 | Now, this wasn't the first. This was the fourth strike against the airport. Flights were suspended. |
| 0:11.0 | Emirates ran a limited schedule, but every major international carrier pulled out. |
| 0:15.1 | War risk premiums are somewhere up between 300 and 1,000 percent, depending on who you ask. |
| 0:19.8 | I think it's worth paying attention to |
| 0:21.3 | because what's being covered here is that Iran is kind of getting lucky, but I don't necessarily |
| 0:27.1 | agree with that. I think what actually is going on here is Iran is systematically working |
| 0:31.4 | through the Gulf infrastructure, airports, oil terminals, ports. And on Monday, they connected |
| 0:36.9 | in a way that sent shockwaves |
| 0:38.7 | through every airline risk manager on the planet at the exact same time. We'll get into what |
| 0:43.7 | that means for the broader economic impact as well as the Strait-O-Hermuz situation, why Americans' |
| 0:48.4 | allies are telling Trump that they're not interested in helping secure the sea lanes. So with that |
| 0:53.1 | being said, let's get into it. |
| 0:54.8 | Now first, these are just absolutely wild pictures when you see it in videos, which I'll show you here in a minute of Dubai International Airport. |
| 1:01.8 | I was just supposed to be in Dubai about a week ago. Obviously, that trip didn't happen. |
| 1:06.2 | We have Emirates flights that are still coming into land here. Now, this is an Emirates triple seven that's |
| 1:11.7 | coming into land at Dubai International. When they're getting in here, they might not have enough |
| 1:15.8 | gas to divert, and there's no guarantee that wherever they divert to might not also come under |
| 1:21.5 | attack. So I imagine the flight crew who is balancing risk versus reward. Obviously, they're managing their fuel state. There |
| 1:28.8 | is a lot going on. I imagine on the flight deck here when we just take a look at some of these |
| 1:33.5 | kind of wild photos of the triple seven coming into land at Dubai. Now, this drone strike appears |
| 1:38.5 | occurred outside Terminal 3. It makes you wonder, how long can the United Arab Emirates sustain this type of |
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