Al Habtoor said that many of the calls that he received after the post — which he said he drafted but his team edited and posted — were positive. Others were more critical, he said, with friends, some of them well-connected, telling him that it was not the right time to take aim at Trump.

Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, a retired political science professor at United Arab Emirates University and friend of Al Habtoor’s, said he reminded him, in private and on X, that the UAE’s main air defense systems were bought from the United States.

“If we didn’t have the Patriots, where would we be?” Abdulla asked, referring to the Patriot missile defense system the UAE bought from the U.S., which it uses in addition to the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), which is also American-owned.

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