GCC's Vulnerability: Energy Exports & Food Imports Exposed!

[00:00:00]Most important is that the GCC export 20% of the world's energy.

[00:00:09]>> The GCC what?

[00:00:10]>> The Gulf Cooperative Council. Okay, so the Gulf Cooperative Council are certain nations in the Middle Middle East that align politically. So they include Qatar, Saudi Arabia, uh the UAE, Oman, Iran, Kuwait.

[00:00:27]They they've been exporting energy, and not just energy, but also a lot of byproducts of energy production including fertilizer, to the world primarily East Asia and India.

[00:00:42]In return, they've been getting um food back. So most people don't don't don't appreciate this, but the GCC actually imports 89% of its food needs. The reason why is that they've become so rich these past few decades that the populations have um blown up.

[00:01:05]And as a result, they have to feed their population, but they don't have agricultural resources.

[00:01:12]They also don't have water resources.

[00:01:14]And so they have two major vulnerabilities, which is food and water. And they have a lot of these these desalination plants around the area.

[00:01:24]And so >> What's a desalination plant?

[00:01:26]>> Okay.

[00:01:27]So what a desalination plant takes salt water from the seas and then through an electrochemical process turns it into portable water that people can use uh for drinking purposes and for agricultural purposes.

[00:01:43]>> Okay.

[00:01:43]>> So as you can see, the entire area it is extremely vulnerable to drone and missile attacks from Iran.

[00:01:52]So that's the second thing that Iran has done which Trump did not expect.