They do say that people reveal who they truly are once the money dries up. No other place does this ring truer than for the Gulf that only managed to buy a cheap veneer of civilization with oil wealth and convinced people to buy into that veneer with tax breaks.
They are the real civilization who understand Islam. they are way generous than what is presented in public.
back in day when West European empires were being created there were other smaller countries who did not have empire but they benefited immensely even more than the people inside empire by providing specialized services to countries like France/UK etc.
UAE domestic population is 1m and it has provided valuable jobs and services to large diaspora countries like China/India/ Iran.
when this linkage is broken and Royal Kingdoms create there own empire (aka traditional values with help of Russia) these large population countries will feel it first. who else beside Royal Kingdoms know all the products made from Oil/Gas. start with airline prices.
its age of AI and guess who is at the top. not the one what is in public.