{"id":987642857,"date":"2026-03-05T17:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T22:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/?p=987642857"},"modified":"2026-03-05T17:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T22:40:33","slug":"prominent-uae-billionaire-khalaf-ahmad-al-habtoor-just-published-an-open-letter-to-trump-its-brutal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/prominent-uae-billionaire-khalaf-ahmad-al-habtoor-just-published-an-open-letter-to-trump-its-brutal\/","title":{"rendered":"Prominent UAE billionaire Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor just published an open letter to Trump. It&#8217;s brutal."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_section et_pb_section_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_section_regular et_block_section\" >\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_0  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>\ud83d\udea8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 Prominent UAE billionaire Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor just published an open letter to Trump. It's brutal.<\/p>\n<p>\"Who gave you the authority to drag our region into a war with Iran? Who gave you permission to turn our region into a battlefield?\"<\/p>\n<p>Al Habtoor's a major figure: billionaire, former diplomat, outspoken political voice in the Gulf. When he talks, UAE leadership's listening.<\/p>\n<p>His questions:<\/p>\n<p>* Was this your decision or Netanyahu's pressure?<br \/>* Did you calculate collateral damage before firing?<br \/>* You placed GCC countries at the heart of danger they didn't choose<br \/>* Your \"Board of Peace\" initiatives were funded by Gulf states. Now we're getting attacked. Where did that money go?<br \/>* You promised no wars. You've conducted operations in 7 countries: Somalia, Iraq, Yemen, Nigeria, Syria, Iran, Venezuela<br \/>* 658 airstrikes in your first year back = Biden's entire term (which you criticized)<br \/>* War costs $40-65 billion for operations, possibly $210 billion total<br \/>* Your approval rating's down 9% in 400 days<br \/>* Americans were promised peace. They're getting war funded by their taxes<\/p>\n<p>The sharpest line: \"Before the ink has dried on your Board of Peace initiative, we find ourselves facing military escalation that endangers the entire region. So where did those initiatives go?\"<\/p>\n<p>Al Habtoor's not some random critic. He's establishment. Connected. When UAE elites start publicly questioning Trump's decision-making, that's America's closest Arab allies saying \"we didn't sign up for this.\"<\/p>\n<p>The letter ends: \"True leadership is not measured by war decisions, but by wisdom, respect for others, and pushing toward achieving peace.\"<\/p>\n<p>@KhalafAlHabtoor<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":987642858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<p>\ud83d\udea8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 Prominent UAE billionaire Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor just published an open letter to Trump. It's brutal.<\/p><p>\"Who gave you the authority to drag our region into a war with Iran? Who gave you permission to turn our region into a battlefield?\"<\/p><p>Al Habtoor's a major figure: billionaire, former diplomat, outspoken political voice in the Gulf. When he talks, UAE leadership's listening.<\/p><p>His questions:<\/p><p>* Was this your decision or Netanyahu's pressure?<br \/>* Did you calculate collateral damage before firing?<br \/>* You placed GCC countries at the heart of danger they didn't choose<br \/>* Your \"Board of Peace\" initiatives were funded by Gulf states. Now we're getting attacked. Where did that money go?<br \/>* You promised no wars. You've conducted operations in 7 countries: Somalia, Iraq, Yemen, Nigeria, Syria, Iran, Venezuela<br \/>* 658 airstrikes in your first year back = Biden's entire term (which you criticized)<br \/>* War costs $40-65 billion for operations, possibly $210 billion total<br \/>* Your approval rating's down 9% in 400 days<br \/>* Americans were promised peace. They're getting war funded by their taxes<\/p><p>The sharpest line: \"Before the ink has dried on your Board of Peace initiative, we find ourselves facing military escalation that endangers the entire region. So where did those initiatives go?\"<\/p><p>Al Habtoor's not some random critic. He's establishment. Connected. When UAE elites start publicly questioning Trump's decision-making, that's America's closest Arab allies saying \"we didn't sign up for this.\"<\/p><p>The letter ends: \"True leadership is not measured by war decisions, but by wisdom, respect for others, and pushing toward achieving peace.\"<\/p><p>@KhalafAlHabtoor<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,90,60,97,95,28,57,89,96,63,77,6,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987642857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-action-steps","category-deplorable","category-editors-choice","category-eotwawki","category-fighting-back","category-great-awakening","category-in-the-storm-news","category-logical","category-mad-as-hell-and-not-taking-it-anymore","category-oh-shit","category-rescue-the-republic","category-revelations","category-wait-for-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987642857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987642857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987642857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987642860,"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987642857\/revisions\/987642860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987642858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987642857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987642857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987642857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}