Why Qatar spent $220 billion on the FIFA World Cup
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That's the morrocan royal guard at 4:33 not Qatari ones
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"Thousands of migrant workers have lost their lives in the process, even so, it is a price Qatar is willing to pay" Is it ruled by Lord Farquaad?
Death is natural ...
What about Kashmir😡 motherfucker lindu
@@M3ganwillslay migrant death is even more natural, let's be honest, who is willing to cross the sea in a dinghy while not even knowing how to swim does not value its own life too much at all.
@@dannyboy-vtc5741 Jesus... Is there a point saying anything?
Remember Event 201. Strangely coincided with American athletes falling ill at the 2019 Wuhan Military Games. Get ready for the Camel Flu, MERS-2?
"Some of you may die, but it is a sacrifice I willing to make" - Qatar
The deaths caused by the construction for this world cup, is a few hundreds, like 400... the "6500" number that media like to talk about is the TOTAL of deaths, by ALL causes (even natural) for ALL foreigners in Qatar, in the LAST DECADE or something like that, it's a stat that has nothing to do with all this...
Edit: it's actually way less than a 100, check your info
@@juisss YEAH, SURE BUDDY XD
@@juisss Even if what you say is true 400 is still WAY too many.
@@nygothuey6607 400 to build a new city and four mega staduims in 8 years is too many ?
Ok go look at how many Humans died constructing European cities loool
@@juisss "a few hundreds"...
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fact check what you're seeing because I saw a lot of false information about qatar.
This is another great and important CaspianReport video. Having lived and worked in Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, I have seen tribalism at work in all of them. It was a surprise that tribalism existed in Iran, given the antiquity of the Persian state. I was surprised to learn in a previous video that only about half of Iranians are "Persian," the rest are divided into tribes like Baluchi, Turkoman, Lur, etc. Some of the non-Persians are nations, or, as in Qatar, people of a tribe or nation in another state, like Azeri, Kurdi, etc.
While tribalism in Iran rarely impacted me as a foreign teacher, it did impact me in both Saudi Arabia and the UAE. In SA I learned that "wasta," or influence, was tribal and it directly impacted my work. Students used wasta to obtain class assignments, which teacher they would get and how they would be taught. This was a headache for the school administration, especially the foreign staff. In addition to tribe, other related cultural issues, such as age, face hair, diet, dress, etc. also play a role.
Tribalism may be ameliorated or covered up, but elimination seems to be almost impossible. People who live and work abroad really need to know about such things. Kudos to CaspianReport for taking on this issue. It would, perhaps, be a good Idea to compare tribalism in different countries and/or to do a deeper dive into the minutiae of how it manifests itself.
Wasta= nepotism
That would be interesting, a combination of historical, sociological and pyschological pieces. Might be difficult to pull off without appearing to be bigoted ot ignorant (even though, presumably, one would of course not be bigoted).
Humans are flock animals and their are both physical benefit and psychological feeling of safety and belonging from members of a group. It of course can have both benefits and bad results depending on the success of and in position in the group. Citizenships of a state is a more advanced and office rules based Tribalism, Qatari and the other states you experience tribalism is a very old version, super nepotistic, where civic nationalism is light nepotism, as a Danish citizen I still has some specific things that only civilians can, like voting for parliament, but in most things everyone with promises to live in Denmark has the same rights and not legal to give citizens special privileges like you expected, if a Romanian citizen study in Denmark they get free education and can apply for the same thing’s as Danish citizens, like getting paid money to support you, SU, depending on your needs. Tribalism is hard to get rid of like corruption, civic nationalism is better but hard to achieve, ethnic nationalism like the Nazis are tribalism one steroids. But yes more information about the topic should be made, and easier to access, it one is to work such places, but still sound like a unique experience when you like me come from a place where things can be boring sometimes, not that i don’t know it’s the boredom of being privileged. 😊
@@kimmogensen4888 Denmark seems to be a very nice, civilized place. I was only there for about a week, suffering intense jet lag, and only spent time in Copenhagen before taking the boat train to Lübeck.
As to civic tribalism, I would have said that the US had managed blend almost all European nationalities together without the problems in Qatar and UAE. I would have been wrong.
The events of the past few years have shown that there are tribal problems in the US. The "Republican" Party has turned into the Trump Monarchist Party, with fascist and racist factions, or tribes. The Democratic Party has its own internal tribal divisions.
In case you are wondering why the US has a 2-party system, it doesn't. The government is set up in a way that requires factions to make semi-permanent alliances in order to take power, while in Europe coalitions are made after elections. The minor parties that exist in the US rarely get any power because even local governments have the same form as the national government. New England is an exception. counties are lines on the map here, and town government is Swiss style direct democracy in town meetings.
I don't know much about SA or the UAE but Iran is very far from what you call it a tribalism society. all the persian, azeri, kurd, lur, arab or baluchies are considered different ethnic group which have intermingled with one and other in the past centuries or millenniums. There's no such a thing as an ethnic leader or representer in Iran as you might find in a tribe. for most Iranians their national identity comes before their ethnic or religious identity. I also find it odd that as someone who both lived and worked in Iran you had to learn that not every Iranian is Persian on youtube.
Lol Germany spends $4billion hosting a World Cup. Meanwhile, my home town is spending $1.2 billion to rebuild a 1200 ft bridge...amazing
prices differ a lot from labor to materials from different countries for example the usa built a military base with 150 billion dollars while qatar made the whole world cup and improved the whole country and added a metro and tram system for only 220 billion dollars
Qatar developed lot infrastructure which will be used after world cup like metro
@@shoking9825 Like the constuction of that bridge, the American Military Complex is managed in a horribly inefficient manner.
don't worry mate. We can't even build an airport in our capital - and now we even lost the ability to play football apparently...
Germany had most infrastructure needed already in place.
0:33 "some of you may die, but it is a sacrifice, I am willing to make"
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this
@@juisss lol
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I find it telling how the vast majority of the video focuses on the intertribal and regional politics that shape Qatar, and here in the comments all people are interested in spamming is a reference to ONE LINE that occupied a few seconds of the video but that gets talked about ad infinitum by other videos on Qatar. Shows how little people are interested in actually learning something new, versus just regurgitating popular media narratives ad nauseam.
tribalism is such a weird thing for westerners to understand, but as a history teacher I always tell my students to think of these tribes as if they were natives from america. They truly hate each other in spite of the foreigners who come, and they have been fooled around by too many people, so they've grown distrustful of each other, leading them to eternal disconnection, rather allying themselves to other countries, but not to their own.
I dont think its at all "weird" to understand. Unless you start by being brainwashed.
as a westerner. tribalism isn't weird at all. It is in fact the natural state of humanity. we have to work really really hard to dilute it or harness it toward useful ends. if you ever wonder why segments of society tend to make choices revolving around preventing the success of an other within your society. that comes from tribalism. if you can't see it in your own country. your blind. the west has been generally better at harnessing it into nationalism than other societies. but many others have caught up in that regard and even the west got that idea from other societies.
Tribalism is very much alive and well in the west, it just doesn't trace itself back centuries. But we're seeing plenty of new 'tribes' forming all the time, identifying themselves by social or political ideology rather than ethnicity but acting very much like tribes do in all other respects. There's strong intra-tribal identification and support, their social networks tend to be dominated by people of similar beliefs as they have, they even tend to marry within the 'tribe' and express active disinclination to mix with opposing tribes (surveys have found as much, and it's a trend that's only become more pronounced over the years). We just don't call them tribes.
Some of the commenters here disagreeing with you either *don't* actually understand the way tribalism manifests in our region (I'm from the Middle East) or that they don't do a good job in expressing their justification.
Tribalism in our region can reach a point where people from separate towns will never intermarry and if such a case happens they will be disowned by their tribes. Based on the bloodline and geographical residence alone.
In the west, such cases or their equivalents would more often than not be tagged as racist, xenophobic, and/or bigoted, and to be fair - rightfully so. That is because the way western civilization was formed and the values it holds today denounce judgement based on factors that do not relate to one's worldview or behavior. In everything related to genetic or geographic factors, the west follows the mentality of inclusivity, or at least tries to. In our region, however, in cases like marriage for example, it is not uncommon to do the exact opposite and denounce marrying someone from a different tribe of a distant village regardless of their worldview. Think Romeo and Juliet. Textbook xenophobia, based on ethnic background, legitimized by the culture and social norms.
If that is not enough to clarify the difference, in my country there were cases where some tribes were so hostile to each other that it would escalate to violent clashes. Yes, with guns. Some of these cases could only be mediated by *the police.* It took national law enforcement to step in so the opposing tribes reconcile.
Everything I said here can manifest in the form of a terrible, terrible phenomenon called honor killings. I'd rather not elaborate more since this comment is already quite long and verbose, but I recommend you to look it up.
If things like these don't exist in your society, then don't say that you live through the same thing in the west.
@@royxeph_arcanex I'm Brazilian and tribalism, in the way it exists over Middle East, DOES NOT exist here. As simple and sound, that is why many people have trouble understanding, hance why people come here just pointing fingers but giving no explanations.
Thank you for making a video regarding Qatar that isn't just screeching about it's faults, but providing an interesting look into the problems and motives of the country.
It's amazing what unlimited dinojuice money and slave labour can buy you these days...
How you think USA and EU built themselves?
@@son-of-the-moorish-empire EU? EU is a friendly diplomatic union. no nations were conquered or violence used.
@@Oscar-ds2vb they used people from their ex colonies to build this. GREAT EU :) ...
dinofarts, actually
@@son-of-the-moorish-empire no they didnt. maybe you're thinking of france germany and the UK?
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@@pampoovey6977 😢😢😢 wannacry.exe
220 billion dollar spent for a 1-month sport event or 1 billion dollar donation to all countries would help Qatar's image
Your Geopolitical reports are so fantastic! I love it man. Keep it up!
fact check what you're seeing because I saw a lot of false information about qatar.
Shirvan never fails to bring us different perspectives of the same story, kudos to u
I was just about to comment the same thing. Damn, I'm happy Caspian report exists :D, Thanks Shirvan!
Love that last line: Being at the table instead of in the menu!
6000 dying in 10 years out of 2million workers, thats 0.01% which is practically better than most countries by a mile.
I found nd it extremely hypocritical how everyone start flexing their virtue when covering an arab country but never does that same about western countries that have invaded and killed so many, nobody gonna talk about the tens of thousands of civilians n children losing lives to US attacks on Afghanistan and iraq?
You may call this "whataboutism" but i am just pointing out the hypocrisy of 'holier than thou' and selective virtuous behaviour.
So your point is we can have whataboutism and choose to ignore deaths just cause the west also did it. Nice..
Good point!
6500 total deaths, including all causes of deaths, not construction accidents.
Radical Liberals are outraged, so they nitpick on anything and blow it out of proportion. As usual.
it isn't better than most countries in terms of construction deaths. It's far worse. International labour organisations have flagged it as a serious problem for a long time.
Weird that you defend Qatar which is effectively an apartheid society. The working majority are disenfranchised and exploited, to ensure the luxurious lives on the Qatari minority. They also live segregated from each other, among other things. It isn't comparable to other countries -- except places like Apartheid South Africa...
What an awful place.
It didn't spend 220 billion
The World cup preparations are 8 billion only
The rest is part of Qatar 2030 vision
That included the world cup as a part of it
ما تگعد راحة؟ هاي كلهن سووهن علمود كأس العالم. اسعار كأس العالم مو بس سعر بناء الملاعب
Thank you that makes a lot of sense
I am glad that was pointed out and it it good to know. Very relevant.
@@davidpowelson4817
Also, as an addition, Qatar Vision 2030 was launched in October 2008. I was surprised that international media, which are supposed to be professional ignore this.
haha sure and no one was killed that worked to ?
This channel videos are always great! I learned a lot of new things about Qatar and its history thank you Shirvan
fact check what you're seeing because I saw a lot of false information about qatar.
Many information are wrong….so dont be that excited
@@Cptbaraa what was wrong?
@@youssef_houmazen what information here is false?
Qatar since its independence has always had tumultuous relations with its main neighbors, notably Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The world cup has allowed to renew the links between the different petromonarchies, and to turn the page after the attempted blockade initiated by Saudi Arabia and its neighbors so that Qatar aligns itself with its interests, particularly in relation to Iran. where the small emirate shares the ophshores natural gas reserves. Finally seeks to distinguish itself from its neighbors in terms of soft power by investing massively in sport such as the takeover of PSG in 2011, making the Parisian club its showcase internationally.
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idk this video was pretty bad
@@samuelstyles5031 L
@@technolegends306 ? it's literally wikipedia tier information
@@samuelstyles5031 L
"Nations are made of stories, not atoms."
220 Billion dollars sounded like a crazy number but most of it has been on improving infrastructure which will benefit the country for decades.
"Death is a natural part of life."
"Any time is a good time for a prequel meme" - Fifa
Cringe
Thanks a lot for this video, I've been waiting for it for a long time. Just couldn't comprehend why Qatar would spend so much money on the World Cup
Wow Caspian! This might be my favorite video of yours yet! You're a total inspiration and in fact, because of seeing your success, I've decided to start making videos too! Keep grinding, your hard work clearly pays off!
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@@johnflethcer5877 thank you!
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In a sense the 10% of the population (the qataris) ruling over the other 90% while keeping them in much worse conditions reminds me of aprtheid South Africa. If the qataris fail to keep paying these workers or somehow let them become unhappy tribal rivalries among them will become completely irrelevant.
you are not getting the facts right. they are 10% of the population, it doesn't mean the other 90% have Qatari citizenship but are from other nations originally. Nobody except Qataris have a Qatari citizenship, all the rest are just temporarily there on contract basis, and eventually will go back home. So the foreign workers in Qatar (be it highly paid CEOs, or low paid labor workers) have no role to play in the nation's politics, and have no influence on what happens internally in Qatar.
@@dimshosta Having citizenship or not is not relevant. They live in Qatar, they are the majority and they are discriminated and exploited.
@@danielmp2085 Depending from which perspective you are looking at it. If you are looking at it from a perspective of a western worker, then yes what they earn & some of the conditions they work under, is abysmal. But from the perspective of most these workers, what they earn in Qatar is 100 times what they get at home, and are happy to endure some rough conditions, because they can support their family back home, and at the end of their contract, they go home and can buy a land and a house and live a very comfortable life.
@@danielmp2085 They are voluntarily there and can leave anytime they want. So if it’s so bad in Qatar, why do all these Pakistanis, Filipinos, Indians and Nepalese come to Qatar? Because their home is much worse than Qatar. No sane human would leave a good place for a worse place. So that means their places of origin are much much worse than Qatar and that’s why they voluntarily migrate to Qatar. Qatar is not forcing them to leave their home.
There's a major diference between those two cases: In South Africa, the ruling minority was the foreigners that ruled the native majority. In Qatar, the migrants are there to work and in general they could easily went home to their native home. South African natives don't have that kind of luxury.
Please do a series on the tribes of the Arabian Peninsula.
fact check this guy, some of the information is false
@@youssef_houmazen
Caspian reports Shirvan puts out some of the best info in this space on RUclips.
@@ahsanmohammed1 yes yes of course
This tribalism is a very old thing and it even caused our Prophet Muhammad many problems because these tribes were never loyal to the state and only prioritised their own tribes interests.
@@Handle0108 not close to as many problems as the warlord Muhammad caused the world with his violent teachings.
Qatar is built on the blood of South and Southeast Asian slaves, for a lack of better words. It persecutes women and queer people.
Though I'm a fan of football, I am first a queer person with S/SE Asian heritage with a partner of similar backgrounds. I boycotted the games, and have stopped using Qatar Airways to travel to the motherland.
I don't think spending 200 billion on the World Cup is going to help with the nation building part when you consider that all of those stadiums, hotels, public transport infrastructure, etc, are going to be almost completly abandoned when the thousands of people that were using them go back home
You don’t get it. It’s about publicity for their country and to attract people to come build their country. Most importantly to show all their neighbors that Qatar is relevant. Small, but hosted the biggest sports event in the world. Why do you think the Arabs build such tall buildings. More smaller towers are better and much cheaper as well.
"I shall burn 200 billion dollars on a sport event in order to foster national unity for a month or two" ~ said no sane man ever.
@@elivinture6672 national unity💀. You don’t know that Qatar is not friends with its neighbors and having such big resources is definetely worth their
@@bosniak2042true and their investments abroad eclipse the expenditures within the country
nope i live in qatar and they made a whole metro and tram system while will help all of qatar and they made bridges and new hotels for eveyone to live in and some stadium were sold to other countries and while some will be recycled
4:28 this is #Essaouira city in Morocco 🇲🇦
4:33 and this is Hassan Tower in Rabat city also in Morocco 🤔
Someone has picked the wrong stock videos 😅
Bghaw yaklona 😂😂
Lots of wrong information
any depiction of the Middle East uses footage fom Morocco, even hollywood films lol
True .. Doha was a sand desert, nothing there to build a wall to protect it ..
Yep I also noticed the same thing,maybe cuz Qatar have no ancient building just tents 🤣 they also used Moroccan footage and culture during the world cup,
Enlightening video, and what a quote to end it with!
Al Jazeera, normally: Investigative journalism, not afraid to challenge authoritarian regimes, even if their journalists risk being arrested or worse.
Al Jazeera, when talking about the world cup, or Qatar in general: "the west is so hypocritical, don't they remember they (also) used to allow slavery"
Yeah, Al Jazeera has zero credibility while reporting on Qatar, or most issues in the region.
Otherwise it's pretty good on the journalistic front.
They are really good at playing victim card and bringing up someone else's crime to divert from their own....
@@PS-ug7nm They learned that tactic from the west, works well for you guys
this wc was a PR disaster for the countey
So glad Qatar didn’t score a single goal in their world cup.
Money can buy you a lot of things but not respect, sorry Qatar
Qatar never should have had a world cup. Same with china having an Olympics. It is corruption at its finest
@@SegFault69 Croatia will beat Morocco.
Actually they did score a goal against senegal
Sorry to nitpick, but 4:50 that is the wrong variant of the British flag. This variant 👉🇬🇧 has been used since 1801, the one used in this video is the pre-1801 variant. So it is historically inaccurate.
🇪🇺👈the best british flag
Because BBC and CNN said thousands of migrants workers lost their lives in construction sites !!! You have to copy paste the information like a parrot what is your arguments and proves for that. Qatar did teach us to enjoy a world cup ; alcohol free; violence free; hooligans free; the most hospitable people in all previous world cup editions; lot of respect to women fans and so much priority given to them in queues and public transportation access ; very swift rail links to stadiums; top notch stadiums; crime free edition ; taught us family values how to care for elderly and care for our parents. Etc......if you failed to see all this then you need glasses on your eyes and your hearts too. BRAVO QATAR.
This video is very insightful, and explains alot of the countries actions. Excellent work.
1 bottle of water for 1 barrel of oil. I want to see this.
Nope they can make ocean water drinkable with that oil
Dear Caspian, Qatar as a "Theocratic Tribal Society" can be a useful moniker to describe the better part of the entire Middle Eastern Region. Pushed, or forced into the 20th and 21st century on a tsunami of fossil fuels the entire culture is, at a sociopolitical level, merely large conflict driven and distrustful family groups with vast wealth. Far more so than is imaginable in the US or Germany, should their "guest workers" go on strike or leave, the entire society would collapse. Qatar's delicate military position also explains whey they host the huge Al-Udeid Air Base. This is home to the US Military's Combined Air Operation Center responsible for all air operations in the Middle East and Central Asia. Qatar is dependent upon the US Military umbrella to maintain peace with its neighbors. However much like Saudi Arabia, it is a culture and sociopolitical system that is a house built upon sand, it has no inherent inner stability or nationhood however this can change, but at a cost. As with Saudi Arabia, as the Qatarian youth become more educated ( especially in foreign countries ), they will lose their tribal affiliations, however this also threatens the natural inherent conservatism of modern Islam, which is the only real unifying principal in the entire region.
Amazing comment... I enjoyed reading it....
That’s why Qatar and most other Arab states embrace Sharia law regarding migrant workers that could be used to effectively make them slaves and prevent from leaving if need be. And the prospect of a workers strike there would be laughable if not so morbid.
@@watershed8685 Your so funny u knownothing about sharia law
@@Bell_plejdo568p I don’t need to be an expert to know about the inhumane Kafala system
@Seeyou Seemee they can be, history knows many such examples where the owner granted money and luxurious goods to a favorite slave. And differentiating slavery and forced labor in 21st century public (non-legal or non-policy) discourse is a distinction without a difference I believe
Thanks Shovohn. U are always informative.
"at the table instead of on the menu". Classic.
Man, tribalism, monarchy and theocracy just suck. We already tried that shit for centuries and it didn‘t work.
Why does humanity keep repeating the same stupid mistakes over and over again?
You need to leave that sh*t first to be able to revert back to it.
Qatar never did
hell yeah new Caspian Report while I eat dinner! nice
Great world cup! Nobody talka about islamophobia. I am muslim, living in Europe and have suffered from christian genocide and destroying my country during and after the war by the christian europe. Bosnia!
Serbia 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸
If this world cup was Qatar's plan of 'nation-building' and/or improving their image like a modern middle-east like Dubai...then it has spectacularly failed.
If anything, Qatar's image is now way worse than what it was before the world-cup....and we can more or less be ceratin that they wont get any major sport hosting event in coming years.
Recent corruption scandals of European politicians by Qatari govs' money has made matters worse.
And this spoiled image has severely impacted their ability of 'conflict moderator' in middle-east.
As a country whose sole existence depends on USA's military protection and being a huge seller of oil.....having a terrible image in eyes of most of the big oil-buyers is by no way an advantage.
Not to mention they have a negative relation with most of middle-east since their role in Arab Spring.
I think Qatari gov. became too overconfident after military protection from USA....after which they have become overly-aggressive......now resulting in unnecessarily making large no. of enemies.
nope qatar is actually way better than before they made a train and tram system underground and above ground which my whole family uses to get to work and they made multiple hotels and tons of bridges and towers which will be turned into offices and homes
look at the westerners who went to qatar sharing their videos and opinions saying they were wrong about what they said about qatar
USA is not going to be in middle east forever and they knew it. There is another power on the rise like India, Indonesia, Brazil, Bangladesh, and China who will needs their oil to grow. They want to appeal to them not the USA. USA is a superpower in decline from their perspective, just look at their debt to GDP ratio, it is already past 100%. The world will be multipolar again in the future just like before WW1.
@@cakapcakep241 this is true
@@shoking9825 "Yeah, Qatari govt may have corrupted multiple European politicians, nearly have our neighbors hate us for funding terrorist, and have killed thousands of migrant workers with abuse, neglect and sweltering heat for hotels and infrastructure no one probably going to use because our population is as small as the size of Luxembourg but hey, at least we show the world that were a family-friendly country with a train"
@@shoking9825 there has been growth, indeed. Putting so many billions in building new infrastructure is amazing. The point lies, i believe, not in the external changes, but the internal, which did not happen, and will not happen.
I mean it is a hybris to believe that one event can change the country (which it shouldn't, it's put to Qatar to clean their shit up).
I am more angry at the whole world cup event, which is a pool of curruption (not just in Qatar).
didn't spend 220 bil for WC, they spend only 7 bil, the rest is for infrastructure , they built new country for the future
As an Indian I thank Qatar for giving us a chance to work there.
We are facing much worse condition In India
Be fair before judgement!
Qatar should be ashamed of itself, but of course they won't be. They manner they treat(ed) the workers is beyond shameful. And these people believe in Allah? Where in the Qur'an are they encouraged to treat humanity that way? Allah is NOT their god, money is. All responsible will be cursed, as He will not be mocked.
I hate word "expat" usually used by English immigrants that voted brexit 😹🤣
expat=white immigrant
@@Ass_of_Amalek Not quite, expat means highly qualified professional that closes to relocate from he's native country to another one basically delusional hypocritical racist call themselves expats when they become immigrants
Qatar: some of you may die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.
Migrant workers:
Just realized a bunch of other people made the same comment, Woop.
Facts about “Qatar World Cup 2022”, the best world cup ever:
1- Qataris are hospitable and friendly people
2- Western medias hypocrisy is disgusting
3- When you are guest, respect host culture
4- Family’s values come first
5- No drunk in stadium, No riot, No arrest
6- Family- and woman- friendly tournament
7- Palestine is still the issue.
Thank Qatar❤❤
Here's another fact.
Qatar is effectively an apartheid society. The working majority are disenfranchised and exploited, to ensure the luxurious lives on the Qatari minority. They also live segregated from each other, among other things
Qataris are so hospitable and friendly that they killed 10,000 slaves just to make the tourists more comfortable, such generosity 🤗
This is the channel I come to when I want to understand geopolitics instead of CNN, BBC or AJ. No agenda other than facts.
"nations are made of stories, not atoms" GOD DAMN that sounds like something an ancient philosopher would say, not a RUclipsr in 2022.
Actually it is derived/sampled/lifted from 20th century poet Muriel Rukeyzer's famous quote:"The universe is made of stories,. not of atoms"
@@larsjorgan7964 it is staggering how many viewers think Shirvan comes up with these lines, makes you wonder if this is their sole source of information.
In the 21st Century, Qatar has American military presence. Nobody's gonna mess around.
On the sports - this seems REALLY nice. Team sports on the little-league level in grade school - high school and middle school will probably make the biggest difference. With all those universities, a “bowl system” of invitationals will help.
This works. We all know it works. The US used to emphasize it with basketball and football.
I have to give it to Qatar, when they pay media outlets, they get something sleek and well produced. Wish Saudi would learn how to manage paid media ops better.
Paying the media to hide their crimes
"Because at heart nations are made of stories, not atoms."
Using an untainted sports event & that too for nation building,how low can one sink
We are in a weird age with 1st world nations struggling meanwhile, meanwhile oppressive medievil kingdom are getting rich off oil.
Nobody cares
so you are an advertising channel then, what crap
little minor detail: qatar is one the the main base of the US in the area, so no major invasion from outside is really a threat
As an Arab, this video is just none sense. Qatar hosted the world cup as a chance to improve its economy and to let people know about them. Qataris or Arabs dont dislike the tribal culture, as a matter of fact we are proud of it.
I genuinely hate when channels like this who have no idea what goes on in that region start making videos as if they’re experts about the topic
one does not improve economy by wasting 220 billion. qatar is not flexible as saudi arabia. average qataris are more геtaгded than most people.
@@QWERTY-gp8fd why is it a waste?, or did you just fall for the headline as a typical sheep?
@@wawaweewa9159 qatar gdp is 179 billion. if that doesnt make it clear then ur stupid
How many migrant in Europe and America dies just because they don't have what to eat
Before judging other we have to look around our problems... At least migrant help themselves and support their families...
I'm not here to defend anyone but this is a huge attack by media to world cup country host
Best World Cup ever
I love how Britain just casually swoops in and engineers everything in their favour. Its such a classic british empire thing to do.
They have chose a nation of bigotry for their model. Long live Qatar!
Only spent 1/3 of US yearly military budget, what a silly way of nation building
When is the video about Azerbaïdjan's aggression on Armenia coming ?
Armenia deserved it
U mean when they humilated Armenia and finally drive them off the UN recignized Azeri land? That 'aggression'? 🤭
Never? Armenia was asking for it all along. They're going to lose what they have if they don't recognize Azerbaijan's territorial integrity.
Interesting. So far all the comments have been from war-mongerring pro-azeris.
Armenia is a terrorist state
😅 4:33 min that’s a clip of the gate of the Mausoleum of Mohammed V in Rabat, MOROCCO 🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦
The issue here is that in the Islamic world, you're a Muslim first, a member of your tribe second, a Turk, Arab, or Iranian third, and your actual nationality is an afterthought (an afterthought usually drawn by colonial borders).
That may be true in Arab countires I don't know, but turkey and iran in particular have very strong national identities independent from Islamic doctrine. Alot of the protests in iran are fueled by iranians that no longer want a iran defined by Islam anymore, and they are a very large portion of the population
@@a.d8509 Turkey is driven by Nationalism and Islam yes, and Iran is actually only 58% Ethnic Persian. The riots against Islam are mostly due to the recent tyrannical government not due to a broader historical reality, not to mention how Islam is falling to Secularism, Christianity, and Neo-Zoroastrianism among Persian youth.
@@lebleu8843 Turkey does not driven by Islam at all.
@@jackholler3572 Istanbul? Yes. Izmir? Yes. Ankara? Yes you're right. But go outside the cities to the hill side and the steppe and it's very Islamic.
@@lebleu8843 No ? Maybe some villages but in cities it is not
Sadly no one is talking about the migrant workers who were injured and those who lost their lives during the construction in Qatar. Period
I been in Doha Qatar and it is way more advanced than any other European cities, as i I live already in uk , there no comparison at all !and they host the most historical World Cup in the history.
Didn't you watch the video?
may allah bless qatar with peace and prosperity.
8:41 - your GDP figures are a bit off. They do convey the correct message of Qatar having high per capita GDP, but the 2022 IMF figures are not what you show here. I just checked on the IMF website, and it puts Qatar at 82.89kUSD as per 2022.
It’s always interesting to hear a European talk about the tribal influence in Arab societies. Tribal politics is some of the core foundations of these countries. There is animosity and many issues including criminal ones are dealt internally outside the jurisdiction of the law . It’s an extremely complex framework.
He's Middle Eastern
@@slickrick2420 wrong ! He’s Azeri
@@ryansnow2116 Azeris are Middle Eastern lmao?
@@ryansnow2116 And since when is Azerbaijan in Europe? lmao. When you say "European" literally no one thinks "Azerbaijan".
@@BallHeadFreak Azerbaijan is a secular republic that borders Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Turkey. They have been ruled for decades by the Soviet Union and have a firmly rooted European history and culture based in the Balkans under Russian influence.
You mean they spent 220billion on their entire country.
This is a very slick channel with great content but having a map with dark land and black water makes it quite confusing to look at
Don't know what Native Tribals are feeling ?
But Muslims across Indian Subcontinent are completely euphoric...
I love this channel ! Thank your for your content and insight
Another paid western media. Allahuakabar, God is Great! First muslim country to host a world event. Very proud. Best host ever. Jealous west and israel.
Very weird to put it this way because qatari identity was not known when you were talking about "invasions' most of the invasions had local people and tribes endorsing other rulers as their not Al thani who was also seen as a quasi invader too. Weird way to frame things.
The entire video is inaccurate and is praised by people who have no idea what goes on in that country
Fascinating! Excellent writing, Shirvan and team! ;)
Maybe use scenes from Qatar itself and not Morocco or other Arab nations next time? Good report
They just built a gigantic set for Dune 2
Oil price collapse will be a beautiful thing for the middle east.
Every day that passes is another day closer for fusion energy. Goodbye oil, goodbye middle-east.
Imagine spending a year and a half of your GDP to host a football game.
It's interesting, but you didn't mention the role qatar is using Muslim brotherhood to build softpower
He has before, a whole episode on Qatar's involvement is spreading protests and terrorism to other countries in the region.
Makes me wonder what would happen if the treatment of expat migrant workers ever got bad enough that the migrant workers rioted en masse. There are a hell of a lot of them compared to the native Qatari population, I dunno how the government would be able to control them all at once in that scenario.
People are easily divided. Promote and bribe some, encourage them to backstab others. Pit families, or professions, or organizations against each other, create "gate-keeper" castes among the socio-economic classes...hell, the British wrote the blueprint!!! They won't have any problems for good while.
They would send them back home. Also if they’re not armed then they pose no harm to the police. They would be easy to break up and gets sent and since they’re not citizens the Qatari police doesn’t need to be careful in the way they disassemble the riot.
They are a disunited bunch of foreigners who are not citizens who don’t even understand each other a lot of the times. They can’t mount any opposition as mere foreign migrant workers who depend on the country for their income and feeding their families back home.
Perfect analysis. Always insightful and to the point. 🙂👍
fact check what you're seeing because I saw a lot of false information about qatar.
@@youssef_houmazen in this video? If so, send time stamps.
@@youssef_houmazen if he was cnn, reuters or bbc, yes, they are trash. But the caspian report has never failed me so far.
@@mikepants3736 yeah they're all lies. Trump won the election!
@@youssef_houmazen you should be more detailed in your criticism
To drive an animal foward, you need a carrot 🥕, to drive a man foward, you need truth.
A world of baits and ambitions
I used ground news for a while. The only complaints I have is that it never stopped asking me to turn on notifications, and it implies through its design that a centrist position is by default the most reasonable position, which for a radical like me is disagreeable. Other than that I found it to be another doom scrolling app, so not for me.
A centrist veiw is by definition the most reasonable.... Simply because a radical position is viewed by the majority of the population as unreasonable...
It's surprising how people make a big deal out of this. People died building golden Bridge. New York buildings were build by immigrant workers, they were under paid, and they worked high risk jobs.
It would be great to see the Indians and Filipinos and the other migrant workers taking over the Qatari government :)
Which is why why they have Pakistani and Turkish military ready to defend 😁
wont happen because they live in good condition
Just like how greeks control tutkey
@@senti2175 LoL the same Pakistan army that made the largest surrender in modern history 😂☕ ?
@@PS-ug7nm u mean surrendering in midst of a civil war? Do indian pat themselves for that? Really? Lol
Yeah, Qatar will be great when all those investments allow me, as a foreign, to go there and be able to have a beer without sand people willing to ruin my life.
If you aren't there to 1) launder small fortunes of money 2) hide assets from western governments or 3) help them purchase arms & weapons on the Black or open markets.....they don't really need you!
I wish I was Qatari. Every family is a millionaire.
That's normal in other countries as well. If you discount migrants almost all Western Eurpeans are (still) millionaires.
@@the-quintessenz No, they’re not.
@@the-quintessenz definitely NOT. the amount of foreign investments alone makes every Qatari a millionaire. Even considering migration. They are wealthy beyond belief. Anyhow they bring shame to my Islamic village as they sponsor terrorism globally. Unlimited cash, I guess gives you almost unlimited power.
@@XtoCee They are. It's just not reported as it is inopportunistic. The rate is somewhere at 90%.
Why are you showing videos of Morocco while talking about Qatar?
4:42 Bro That's Rabat Morocco, 5 minutes walking from where I live xD
Why do you lie?
I just checked the Wikipedia and it says Qatars GDP is 221 bn, and here they are spending 220 bn for world Cup?