In late July, the Austrian capital of Vienna hosted a special guest. It was none other than the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi. The visit, like any other of the usual protocol-heavy diplomatic visits the world over, would not have garnered too much attention had it not been for the deft way in which the Austrians, and their young Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, charmed the visiting delegation from Abu Dhabi.

The whole affair was heavy on flowery rhetoric that would enchant many an oriental despot.

The entire visit, despite the UAE’s controversial involvement in regional wars garnering complaints of humanitarian injustices from the UN and even from Austria’s own EU partners, was a show of pure theatrical opera that would have made Mozart and the court of the Habsburgs proud.  

 

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