Mailbag Pod
#647. It’s a summer mailbag pod with Ed & Tom, with all the usual topics on offer: the takeover latest, transfers, Mason Greenwood and the international break.
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I don’t understand your issue with qatar on a geopolitical basis:)
1) In terms of foreign policy they r 1000000099999x better than Saudi and their satraps (uae, Bahrain).
They hv supported europe against putin (unlike Saudi) and they r weak and small so they make friends w ppl instead of invading Yemen and slaughtering en masse.
2) Probably most importantly, tho they hv their own fundamentalist clerics, they R not Wahabbis and they have not been exporting that dangerous philosophy for the last 40 plus years.
3) If they get overrun in some way they’ll just sell or the uk govt will seize the club as per chelsea. And it is totally possible this happen.
4) when you think abt soft power, wht r they trying to defend? A sand spit in the desert surrounded by worse people… who cld want worse neighbours than Israel and Saudi. Iran – or at least it’s population – are bt comparison tolerant and well educated.
“They’re not as bad as their neighbours” is a low bar… and call me idealistic but I’d like that bar to be much higher. It’s still a repressive monarchy that abuses migrant workers and treats certain groups as second class citizens (or illegal).