Anyone else in Dubai on holiday? AIBU to be panicking with all the flights cancelled?

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Not sure when we can go home..anyone has managed to for example drive to nearby countries and fly from there?

Sorry what? Doing loads behind the scenes? What?

Putin and Xi are way too protected by their own country's military and security forces.

I think so, there have been comparatively few casualties so far as most of the missiles have been shot down. But as a PP said most of us Brits have never been caught up in anything like this before.

dubai is also a major transfer point for airlines, <<hub airport>> apart from a holiday destination

Putin and Xi are way too protected by their own country's military and security forces.

Yes, and Kim Jong Un is protected by China.

That’s rhe most cringe worthy desperate thing I’ve ever seen written.

There are primary schools in Central London next to sensitive military targets.
I'm no expert on Tehran city planning but it could just be that's where things ended up?

Yes and that, thanks for the reminder

Well, firstly, bombs/ missiles kill people.
Secondly, posters have family and friends out in the Middle East and they might get hit by a missile.
Next is the fear of escalation. It could get worse and several governments involved are unstable. It’s a very volatile situation and there is huge anxiety about how this will play out.
I do hope that helps

I trust the UAE to protect all its residents.

I'll be honest I don't think anyone should be taking geopolitical or advice on being caught in the cross fire between 3 countries who despise/resent each other and have done for decades from the same people who post having melt downs because they didn't get an invite to their 3rd cousins step brothers wedding or AIBU to phone police on friend so I can get me nails done.

Having said that I can't help but share my 2p, just follow your foreign offices advice don't cross boarders it won't be looked upon kindly. I grew up with sirens get to a shelter if you're some where with on one, if not go to the central room and away from windows.

It will all be over soon. But that's what I said on Oct 8th..... I'm

I’d imagine the advice from the consulate is to stay put! Iran are indiscriminately sending drones all over the Middle East so I doubt anywhere is safe currently!

It’s been on the news this morning in the UK that British Citizens in the UAE should use the Foreign Office website to ‘register your presence’ in the region.
If they need to get you out, they need to know you are there.

And primary schools ‘behind the wire’ on RAF bases here, primary and secondary schools on garrisons.

lol, put aside the sensitive intelligence that Russia almost certainly holds over Trump’s “personal adventures”. China’s military spending is $250 billion annually compared to Iran’s $7 billion. Any actual attack on China’s leaders or citizens and it would make 9/11 look like a playground argument.

Does that include the citizen who died yesterday as a result of the strikes?

Something is amiss if you can't understand that people living or visiting a country or simply transiting an airport where missiles might now hit may be terrified.

We had American F22s and Stratotankers flying overhead a couple of nights earlier this week and it was quite unsettling just hearing the engine roars in the dark skies and we were in no danger whatsoever, so to hear that noise or explosions under real threat must be, yes indeed terrifying.

This was a New Yorker podcast. It was about 2 of his daughters.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=www.newyorker.com/the-runaway-princesses&ved=2ahUKEwiVrO2x2P6SAxX3RkEAHUxqLrcQFnoECA8QAQ&usg=AOvVaw2DRw5ySs6XVR1mSlQatUqd

Absolutely they are gruesome but Netanyahu and Trump are no better. They all swim in the same murky water and eat on the same bloodied tables. Equally as evil.

Yes, I think so.

There's people there on holiday with their young children, hearing and seeing drones and bombs going off, high profile buildings being evacuated and being unable to get their flights home because all air travel is cancelled, the airport has been hit and there is no clear indication of when they may be able to return home. They're sheltering in underground car parks and lower levels of their hotels. I think being fucking terrified right now is a reasonable response.

Oh I’m sorry as much as I dislike them, no they are not the same,

I trust the UAE to do it's best. I'm sorry that that man passed away.

No. Have a look at what goes on in an Islamist regime. What would your rights be as a woman? Both the USA and Israel are democracies with civil rights laws. Are they perfect? No, but it would be about a million times better to live there than a theocratic Iran.

If you find the sound of aircraft overhead unsettling then I suggest you don't live near an airport.

Don't be so obtuse