Is the UAE and the Islamic World Already the New Host of the Financialists?

History whispers lessons in the rise and fall of financial power, dark, malevolent and violent human enslaving and consuming power. From Venice’s medieval banks to Amsterdam’s trade networks, the City of London’s martial reach, and Wall Street’s post-war Financialism, each era saw a new center emerge as old ones waned. Today, as we mark July 11, 2025, a subtle yet profoundly dangerous shift seems to be nearing completion. The United Arab Emirates (UAE), with its Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), is carving a niche that could very well redefine the global power landscape for many decades—centuries—to come.

A Pattern Repeats

I articulated in an article a couple months back an historically correct pattern: a cycle of economic influence—I term the "Financialist Kill Chain"—that has hollowed out empires like Britain and strained the United States to near breaking. This seven-step process—influence, debt, asset targeting, destabilization, swaps, extraction, and collapse—is an ancient strategy adapting to new hosts as old ones falter. With Russia and China fortifying their economies, and the U.S. rethinking its path, where next?

Enter the UAE. Since the DIFC’s launch in 2004, this 272-acre economic zone has grown, hosting over 3,000 international firms by 2022—a 19% annual increase. Zero corporate taxes for 50 years and a unique legal system draw global capital, mirroring the strategic foundations of past hubs. The Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), post-9/11, deepened Financialist ties and control in the region, laying the groundwork for this ascent.

A Bridge in the Islamic World

The GWOT’s legacy—spanning military facilities, to the removal of competing interests and assumption of control of all terrorist organizations—has reshaped the Middle East. The DIFC thrives here, blending Sharia-compliant finance with global standards, a hybrid that attracts diverse investors. Recent shifts, like Syria’s

Devil's Legions

fostered regime change in 2025, highlight how covert military operations and capital flows open doors for regional power. The UAE, with its "neutral" diplomacy and trade links, stands ready to channel resources into rebuilding and guiding "post-conflict" states toward new financial frameworks which cut out Europe and the United States, and which fuel the Financialists for another couple centuries.

This isn’t about opportunity but threat and coercion. Populations across the Islamic world—spanning the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond—could find themselves woven into a global Financialist regime, an across the entire Islamic World embedded Financial Kill Chain, their labor, resources and violence capacities fueling growth for the next two to three centuries. Historical patterns suggest they're yet the latest human crop to be controlled, setup, built up, and expended in wars around the world before final harvesting and collapse.

A Long-Term Horizon

Could this mark a 300-year base, as I'm beginning to very much speculate was put in place under the guise of the War on Terror? With traditional powers strained by debt and defiance from Russia, China, Iran, and others, the Islamic world offers a vast frontier to be enslaved. With not only oil, but the most important resource necessary to sustain the Financialist Kill Chain, young men to die in useless wars. Couple this with the DIFC’s FinTech push—highlighted by the 2023 Dubai FinTech Summit—which seeks to connect innovators with capital, supporting development while subtly aligning with broader economic cycles. Syria’s reconstruction, estimated at $250-400 billion, might be a test case, with investments shaping its future trajectory, while deeply embedding the Financialist Kill Chain. All of this fits patterns which are more than two thousand years old, extending all the way back to the Praetorian Regime of Rome.

Navigating Resistance

This rise isn’t uncontested. The Russia-China-Iran axis, bolstered by de-dollarization and alternative trade networks, provides an alternative to bankrupt and collapsing Western-led finance. As well, the U.S., reasserting its economic sovereignty, may well join this BRICS bloc, demonstrating further intent to remove the Financialist Kill Chain, the Financialists (Praetorians) and their Devil's Legions. The UAE’s balancing act—hosting banking (licit and illicit) as the new City of London—does seem to be the critical piece in the Financialists "next host" strategy. Regional dynamics, including non-state actors, set in motion through the Global War on Terror and since, are further supporting this thought, all seemingly amplifying these efforts. All of this, Financialist power sustainment stakes, are even now secured through Qatar and its multiple Devil's Legions HQs, which have long been used as the intelligence and special operations headquarters in the Middle East, but with operations globally.

What Lies Ahead?

The UAE’s rise isn’t a monolithic all in one go movement but a confluence of history, strategy, and opportunity played out with the last remaining vestiges of Western force projection power across the past twenty five years. Just as the remnants of the Venetian-Dutch forces took the British Isles in the 1600s. As the world watches, the question remains: is this merely a bridge to prosperity for the region or a pivot to a new cycle of enslavement and global conflict?

We must really ask ourselves, what the GWOT was. Was it the latest corporate take over of a region, its resources and manpower, as it very much looks to be? Fits the ancient pattern. If it is, then the UAE is the new City of London (Financialists' HQ), Qatar is the new Langley/London (Intelligence HQ), and the Muslim men of the region and world are the new English and Americans. Millions of men to be used to fight in bush wars, proxy wars, shadow and hidden wars for the next two centuries, to be used up and killed till there are no more young Muslim men.