Tony Blair was one of the "New Labour" fakers who begun the bizarre phase of late capitalism we are currently living through, in which neo-liberal "free" market reforms are combined with a "woke" left-liberal culture. But it seems even this old hypocrite is now having second thoughts about it, well! But sure, maybe his recent schwärmerei for the Qatari absolutist monarchy can be squared with some kind of woke-ish pro-Islamism?
What´s really going on here isn´t simply Qatari investments, but the present energy crisis. EU and Germany have struck deals with Qatar about replacing the Russian oil and gas with Liquified Natural Gas (LNG). When push comes to shove, LNG takes precedence over LGBT, it seems.
I don´t think Qatar is really "pro-Western", but are simply doing some opportunistic gyrations, while flexing their economic muscle, which are indeed considerable.
That being said, sure, if the only alternative to buying LNG from Al-Jazeera´s finest is to freeze to death in a Russospherian People´s Republic, I take the LNG anytime!
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