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Tucker Carlson says he spoke with Trump repeatedly about Iran before the war and visited Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, and Jordan shortly beforehand; Carlson regrets not believing the war was imminent and predicts voters will punish it.
Ryan Grimm reported that four sources described covert UAE assistance to Ansar Allah against Saudi-backed forces in Yemen; two said the UAE and Ansar Allah communicated directly. All four described UAE-backed militias sharing intelligence and targeting help.
Grimm said the UAE’s aim is to push Saudi-backed forces out of southern Yemen and preserve room for its own forces, not to build a lasting alliance with Ansar Allah. He said Abu Dhabi hopes for a stable southern foothold before turning toward its interests in the Horn of Africa.
The Guardian reported that the UAE was resuming payments to some forces it had backed, potentially including the Giants Brigades. Grimm’s Yemeni sources said UAE-aligned commanders were avoiding combat with Ansar Allah; the STC denied coordination and said its forces would defend the south.
Grimm said the UAE and its forces committed severe abuses in Yemen, including torture in an Emirati-run detention site where detainees were reportedly roasted over a spit. He cited an Associated Press investigation into the dungeon.
Grimm traced today’s UAE-Saudi rivalry to their diverging goals in Yemen: the two countries joined a coalition in 2015 after Ansar Allah took Sana’a in 2014, but UAE-backed and Saudi-backed forces later clashed. He said MBZ helped MBS rise to power after MBS launched the Yemen war.
Cole described the UAE-held “alpha account” as a covert foreign-policy pool funded by Mohammed bin Salman and managed by Mohammed bin Zayed. He said money went to Erik Prince and Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar, amid plans involving Libya and the war in Yemen.
Cole said a separate “beta account,” funded by the UAE, was held at the Central Bank of Israel through a mechanism involving Benjamin Netanyahu. He could not trace where the money ultimately went; he said the account may have funded UAE defense help from Israel, including Iron Dome operations.
Cole reported that Kushner backed the 2017 Saudi-UAE blockade of Qatar without broader US-government approval, while his family was seeking a Qatar-linked property bailout. Cole said the reporting does not establish that the blockade was caused by the property deal or secret accounts.
Grimm said US officials knew of the UAE’s Yemen assistance and had urged Abu Dhabi to stop, while sources said the intelligence support continued. He argued the arrangement complicates US ties with the UAE as the Trump administration signals interest in renewed war with Iran and the Houthis.