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AloeVera

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3. There are half a million Americans in the region.

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Wed Mar 4, 2026, 12:47 PM

Yesterday

That's a lot of people to get out with commercial flights. Are they even still running at full capacity?

Who knows how many millions of other nationalities?

And how many millions of Middle Eastern people? They can't hop on a flight.

Edited to add, per BBC:
Thousands of flights have been cancelled across the region, according to flight tracking service Flightradar24, with hundreds of thousands of passengers affected.

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I'm feeling for the Americans stuck in Chump's concierge war zone [View all] kairos12 Yesterday OP

Apparently they have provided a phone number to people DURHAM D Yesterday #1

Can't wait for the media to interview them to learn what they feel Baitball Blogger Yesterday #2

There are half a million Americans in the region. AloeVera Yesterday #3

No they are not running! Dubai airport, biggest in world, is shut down. Nt lostnfound 1 hr ago #5

Thanks. And there are actually one MILLION Americans in the ME! AloeVera 25 min ago #6

I'm hearing about it from 3 different countries lostnfound 1 hr ago #4