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I'm feeling for the Americans stuck in Chump's concierge war zone (Original Post) 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 30 sec ago #5
I'm hearing about it from 3 different countries lostnfound 1 min ago #4

DURHAM D

(33,025 posts)
1. Apparently they have provided a phone number to people
Wed Mar 4, 2026, 12:06 PM
Yesterday

stuck in the Middle East to call for help. The message apparently tells them they are on their own.

I am ashamed to be an American.

Baitball Blogger

(52,131 posts)
2. Can't wait for the media to interview them to learn what they feel
Wed Mar 4, 2026, 12:44 PM
Yesterday

about Trump's triage way of evacuating them.

AloeVera

(4,152 posts)
3. There are half a million Americans in the region.
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.

lostnfound

(17,476 posts)
4. I'm hearing about it from 3 different countries
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 04:11 PM
1 min ago

Neighbor’s immediate family, my own close friend, and the entire family of a family member’s much-loved friend. On all sides of the war. Hearing from people in 3 different countries hearing bombs and missiles. Kept awake, stuck in shelters for whole day, afraid for self and family, some are unable to communicate with their family directly. Some are ‘sitting ducks’ when anti-missile arsenal runs out, which i hear is getting to be a problem.

Crazy to hear a similar reality coming from such different sources.

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