Finance & business2 and 20The Dark Truth About Dubai's Economy

The Dark Truth About Dubai's Economy

Long-form14:25News & PoliticsPublished Jun 19, 2026, 12:30 PM · 4mo ago
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Our Discord Community (FREE): https://discord.com/invite/Efbjh7Qj4V 📚 Review our sources ► https://pastebin.com/Wx7Ktv1z 💻 Check out our other socials ► linktr.ee/2and20 ✋ Get in touch ► [email protected] Every year, more than 300 tonnes of gold gets smuggled out of Africa and into Dubai. That's $8.5 billion in metal the records say never left the continent. Gold is just the start. Sanctioned Russian oil, looted government funds, anonymous luxury apartments owned by politicians on government salaries, it all moves through Dubai. In this video we go inside how the UAE became the New Geneva: where African gold gets refined and sold onward, where sanctioned Russian crude finds its buyers through an endless game of shell-company whack-a-mole, and where the world's kleptocrats park their wealth in plain sight. We look at why Switzerland built this model first, why Dubai is now taking its market share, and what it means for Western power in a world that increasingly plays by other rules. 00:00 - Intro 01:10 - A Miracle In The Gulf 03:18 - The New Geneva 09:45 - Property Paradise Includes music by Tom Fox – tomfox.site
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