Musk vs. Trump: Elon Musk’s fan Ian Miles Cheyan asked him to transfer the space program to UAE World News
There is always a tweet that distinguishes geopolitical fantasy in 280 characters. This time, it came from Elon Musk’s loyal Ian Miles Chong:“Elon Musk should simply transfer its entire spacex operation to the United Arab Emirates. UAE leads to technological progress and climbing mankind for stars. ,The idea seems to be far -fetched. But it speaks something very really: the growing ambition of the UAE to become a serious player in the global space race, such as Musk disillusioned herself with Washington, and turned away from Donald Trump again.
A crack on the side of the classroom
Kasturi-Tram relationship, once a spectacle of anti-installation synapper, has hit the turbulance. Poster Boy Musk for a long time for public-private innovation changed rapidly against Trump’s latest federal expenses bill, called it “disgusting disgusting”. Trump, sometimes a repayment, suggested that the US could save “Arabs” by cutting the federal contracts of Musk. In Maga-speech, this is a declaration of war.As Tesla and X shares gave tanks, pointing to more than $ 150 billion in the market price, Kasturi threatened to decide the spacecraft connecting the spacecraft, the spacecraft connecting the spacecraft to the international space station. The post came a few minutes after Trump canceled the SpaceX subsidy. For a brief moment, the world’s most influential entrepreneur looked ready to break the classroom not only from Earth, but from America.Then the UAE entered the chat.
A desert with the dreams of the stars
While the musk-Tram bromance burns on the X, the United Arab Emirates has been quietly, and not so quietly, the creation of a spacecraft nation’s infrastructure. Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center (MBRSC) in Dubai is now a replica Falcon 9 Buster home, a symbolic tribute to Musk’s engineering victory. In 2020, the UAE began an investigation into its hope for Mars, making it the first Arab nation, starting an interplanetary mission. It reached Martian Orbit in 2021.Unlike many space programs that began with the posture of the Cold War, the UAE’s ambitions lie in long -term economic and technical terms. Its Mars 2117 projects imagine a human settlement on the red planet within a century. The country has invested heavily in international partnership with satellite tech, astronaut training (two UAE astronauts now in space), and NASA, Roscosomos and Jacksa.And most importantly, it has money. Oil money. Sovereign Dhan Nidhi Money. The kind of money that can be theoretically a large -scale spacex rehabilitation, if only the US export laws allowed it.
Reality check: Can musk really move forward?
While Abu Dhabi enhances the imagination of a spacex launch site, it hits a hard wall, named Itar, which is international traffic in arms rules. Aerospace technology such as Falcon rockets and dragon capsules is tightly controlled by the US government, especially due to the work of SpaceX with NASA and Pentagon. A mine of national security laws, intellectual property battles and contract obligations will need to be navigated to transfer operations abroad.Then Infrastructure: Launch pads in Florida and Texas in SpaceX, its starlink-purpose network, and its deep entangling with the American military complex. Even as an unpredictable as a musk for someone, uprooting an entire space ecosystem is a dream of overdose than the flight plan.But what is serious, and is worth seeing, it is how quickly the idea caught fire. Because when the powerful partnership is separated, when the emperor of disintegration turns on the emperor of the Maga, the imagination fills the vacuum. And the UAE, with its deep pockets and deep ambitions, is fully ready to be the world’s favorite imaginary.
Facilitated marriage, uninterrupted
The decline of Musk-Tram Dynamic is more than a technical billionaire that breaks down with a former President. It symbolizes the end of a political alliance that once seemed like the future of American localism. The musk was brain, Trump the Bron. His joint disdain for the bureaucracy made him a silicon valley -metal -Talk Radio Voter Aadhaar heroes.But now? Trump accused him of “losing” after his subsidy disappeared. Musk took vengeance by quoting the House Republican and spilling a centralist third party. His shared fantasy to destroy “deep state” has developed in the petty pole wars and social media jabs. And in that vacuum, the UAE has not emerged as a savior, but a forward -looking, well -funded and ideologically as a symbol of the unknowable space agenda.
Between hope and publicity
The truth is that Elon Musk is never going to the Emirates soon. But the fact that people think that it is a will that UAE has managed to build, credibility. In a span of two decades, it has gone from oil containing sandbox to a serious contender in astronomical stakes. Its universities are training aerospace engineers. Its astronauts are flying with NASA. Its space center has a waiting list for international cooperation.Therefore, while the dragon capsule lives on the American soil, the fight for the future of space may no longer be limited to the US, Russia and China. The UAE is still in the initial innings, but it is playing to win.And as for Musk and Trump? Their cold war is over. But in the echo of that conclusion, a new contender has quietly entered the arena, bathed in a desert light, targets for stars.
