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Covid has been good, very good for some people. You would ask how come; well for the traders of mobile phones in the UAE, the days of Covid had been tense but a few of them found ways and channels to bring in the various types of masks and testing kits from across the world and made a killing. Both freight forwarders as well as traders switched from importing mobiles to sourcing masks and other kits and were able to sell these at astronomical prices in the open market and a few of them got a cherry on the top by supplying these items to governmental agencies. Ten-fold profit margins were maintained for a period until the whole thing started to taper off finally giving way to normalization. But, in the wake of this, a lot of people became wealthier than their wildest imaginations and have now built businesses on the foundation of these opportunities.
As a famous saying goes, war what is it good for? It’s good for business. Now we are in the grip of Israeli brutality towards the Palestinians and in parallel the Russian, and NATO conflict is being played in the background in Ukraine. But amidst this horror and mayhem, there are other massacres that aren’t reported in the mainstream media but require equal attention as well. Niger, Sudan, and Congo are some of these examples and then we have the usual upheavals in Yemen, Libya, Syria, and Iraq. Kashmir has again lit up in the unease and the skirmishes and has made its way to the news. The Balkans are waiting to be lit with the slightest spark and all hell…
