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"...
Everyone’s talking about the Farquad reference, but Shirvan never dissapoints with the sickest video-ending oneliner. Nice job with the topic. 👌
I must say, that not every Shirvan's line/idiom is super great (makes sense since Shirvan is "pressed by his fans" into including multiple into every single video) but this one at the end was top notch
The idioms are the part I look forward to the most. 😉👍
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.
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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Better geopolitical analysis here than you get on most corporate news channels.
By far, comes without massive political ideological bias
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.
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.
It's disgusting, they spend 220 billion, but they refuse to give even $1 in compensation to the families of all the dead slaves that died building their country
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Workers not slaves
@@accountforcommenting If they don't have a choice they are slaves, and we know this happened.
Wrong if you're being held against you're will you're a slave
@@itsmederek1 Were they dragged to country in chains or did they come willingly?
This video is very insightful, and explains alot of the countries actions. Excellent work.
220 billion dollar spent for a 1-month sport event or 1 billion dollar donation to all countries would help Qatar's image
What an awful place.
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
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.
Love that last line: Being at the table instead of in the menu!
Enlightening video, and what a quote to end it with!
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!
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?
hell yeah new Caspian Report while I eat dinner! nice
Fascinating! Excellent writing, Shirvan and team! ;)
"Nations are made of stories, not atoms."
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,
Excellent as always. Thanks.
I was waiting for a qatar world cup video! Amazingg
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 TH-cam.
@@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.
"Death is a natural part of life."
"Any time is a good time for a prequel meme" - Fifa
Cringe
Wow you coverage is detailed and entertaining so liked and subbed
What a great video as always.
I am so happy for Mr.Shirvan that you have the audience more than million. I was with you when you have only 14 thousand. I wish you all the best in your initiatives and your work!!!!
idk this video was pretty bad
@@samuelstyles5031 L
@@technolegends306 ? it's literally wikipedia tier information
@@samuelstyles5031 L
this wc was a PR disaster for the countey
Excellent as always 🤩
I love your voice! Guess I got used to it. Also what program you use for the maps?? It looks very good!
"at the table instead of on the menu". Classic.
I love this channel ! Thank your for your content and insight
Thanks Shovohn. U are always informative.
I have enjoyed these videos for over a year but I can’t wait for him to finally get to talking about prince caspian
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
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.
Thank you for your insight, as always!
fact check what you're seeing because I saw a lot of false information about qatar.
Your videos are the absolute highlight of my TH-cam...ing...
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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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 ?
Great episode!
One thing: the image at 4.20 is not Qatar but Essaouira in Morocco... But excellent documentary as always. Thank you.
Using an untainted sports event & that too for nation building,how low can one sink
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
220 Billion dollars sounded like a crazy number but most of it has been on improving infrastructure which will benefit the country for decades.
1 bottle of water for 1 barrel of oil. I want to see this.
Nope they can make ocean water drinkable with that oil
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
This is one of your best videos 🙂
Dudeeeee the quotes are awesome
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
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
Excellent, but I think you sneaked in a movie clip from horse-guards in Rabat!
This is good one..m tnx Shirvan
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
"nations are made of stories, not atoms" GOD DAMN that sounds like something an ancient philosopher would say, not a TH-camr 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.
"Stories unite people" - NOW, I understand what Tyrion Lannister was talking about, when he nominated Brandon I "The Broken" Stark was as the (high) King of Six Kingdoms. Thanks Shivran.
Thanks Shirvan!
I know very little about Qatar; thank you for another interesting video. I would be interested in future content on the tribalism still present in Middle Eastern politics. Thank you again for this one!
Merry Christmas out there everybody! ✝️🎄
man this guy is showing moroccan cities and saying it's qatar lol, Fact checked this please
Western media feeds you with lies, your people like robots
@@youssef_houmazen I mostly listen to these rather than watch them. Is there much stock footage of Qatar even out there?
@@adelward8796 To which "lies" specifically in this video are you referring? I will agree that one should generally take mass media with a grain of salt.
@@Numba003 Tribalism is the case across the Middle East, some countries have managed to minimise their role but its still there. This is the same issue in my home country of Somalia, our clans/tribal divisions broke the country despite us all being one people, speaking the same language and having the same culture and religion.
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
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 would love to see one of your videos taking about Kuwait
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
It would be interesting to know what sea level rise projections for the region might spell as far as the stability of the little nations like Qatar and Bahrein. I think the future might bring a growing dependence on the Saudis.
Fairy tales & delusions
@@xy5870 yes I agree Saudi Arabia is a fairy tale, everybody knows that the Rashidis still control Arabia, the Saudis are just a collective hallucination
A growing dependance for what? Terrorism ?
@@xy5870 climate change is a fairy tale now?
Don’t worry about the oceans that will not happen don’t be briainwashed by the media we will be fine in the next 10 years maybe not from nukes but global warming will be fine
"Because at heart nations are made of stories, not atoms."
Can you do a video on the Geopolitics of Iraq please?
Would love to see a similar video on UAE. Really intrigued by the unique power structure of the UAE in which a state is held together by 7 different royal families ruling their own little part of the state.
fact check what you're seeing because I saw a lot of false information about qatar.
He won't make a video about UAE because this video about Qatar is probably funded by the UAE. I have been seening his content prefer certain countries and actors that really known for propaganda and funding of social media influencers.
4:33 that's morocco 🇲🇦❤️
@RZR PRODUCTIONS 🔊 still made it to the semi finals, and about to get that 3rd place :))
Less riots please by exile Moroccans.
@@the-quintessenz cry more
@@aizityahya Why so dismissive?
A very informative video but little-known history thank you!
comment for the algorithm gods, thanks for the vid
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).
so you are an advertising channel then, what crap
They just built a gigantic set for Dune 2
Only spent 1/3 of US yearly military budget, what a silly way of nation building
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.
Maybe use scenes from Qatar itself and not Morocco or other Arab nations next time? Good report
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.
didn't spend 220 bil for WC, they spend only 7 bil, the rest is for infrastructure , they built new country for the future
4:42 Bro That's Rabat Morocco, 5 minutes walking from where I live xD
Why do you lie?
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
Small correction if I may:
The UK flag is wrong, and hasn't been used for over 200 years.
Bravo Shirvan 🎉
They have chose a nation of bigotry for their model. Long live Qatar!
For the first time in this channel a video provides superficial analysis. The Arab Gulf Countries are mysterious and although this video provided valuable information it was unable to dive deep. Geostrategically Qatar has interesting connections with Turkey, Iran and the UK, I was hoping this will be mentioned. Also the recent Arab embargo on Qatar was not mentioned. A very impossible ask is to give insights about the successions in the ruling family, but that’s a mystery for all gulf countries in general.
I'm pretty sure shirvan already has vidoes on the arab blockade and qatars relationship with the region dating back to a couple of years ago
didnt expect this video to be so interesting
Anything about the austrian veto to not let Romania and Bulgaria in Schengen area ? Would be interesting to see russian influnce from Austria and how to spread euroscepticism and serve russian economical interes 🙂
9:53 People will riot and set things on fire if their team wins, too. It's just human nature that we're always looking for an excuse to toast a few cars
Nah That's just british nature
neva ya own car tho huh, ya tossa
You've used some footage from Morocco in the video, any reason why?
Please make videos about Mexico!
Best World Cup ever
Does the GDP per capita calculation use the Qatari born population as the base or all the residents?
no, it uses the total population.
Shirvan what program do you use to make your videos?
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
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.