After a huge gap of exporting nothing, Qatar’s Baladna, the world’s largest livestock company has made its first transaction. Baladna is now supplying more than half of Qatar’s fresh milk and is exporting to Afghanistan, Yemen and Oman, and soon to Libya. Post the boycott two years ago, it started receiving its supplies of cows and business has been growing within the country. Qatar is now able to boast about some kind of export, despite being boycotted by most of its Arabian neighboring nations due to its alleged connections with pro-terrorist organizations and Iran as well.

While political analysts believe this move will help the nation finds its self reliance, it is also going to encourage the tendency of self indulgence and desire to go against nations like USA and support militia.

Qatar is the world’s top liquefied natural gas exporter but a net importer of nearly everything else. This small country is indeed wealthy. But since June 2017, it has been forced to retool an economy once heavily reliant on fellow Gulf states. It is gradually learning to become self reliant, in somewhat good and bad ways as well.

Qatar is gradually spreading its market and reaches into other areas as well. They have spent huge amounts in the development of their ports. Recently, the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) invested as much as $250 million in an Indian education startup, Byju’s.

QIA is one of major shareholders in Airtel, having invested $1.2 billion in the publicly traded telecom major in 2013. More recently, it invested $300 million in office space developer RMZ Corp and is said to be considering investments in the affordable housing space, outside of Qatar.

Despite being ostracized and cut off from its major trade partners like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, Qatar is finding its way around to creates its own network of allies.

Like the Fall of the Icarus, the fame at office has melted away for Austrian far right veteran Heinz-Christian Strache.

Strache turned down a European Parliament seat today, owing to public disgrace that he face earlier over a video sting operation, after which he had to quit as deputy head of the coalition government. Both incidents have hurt his Freedom Party’s credibility and political standing.

Strache quit a day after German media published secretly filmed footage from a 2017 dinner party in Ibiza at which Strache met a woman posing as a Russian oligarch’s niece.

Although Strache was 42nd and last on the list of a party that secured just three seats in last month’s European Parliament election, he got enough preferential votes – roughly 45,000, or almost a third of his party’s votes, well above a 5% threshold for jumping up the list – to get one of its seats.

“I have … decided not to take up the EU mandate,” Strache said in a statement, adding that he would not return to active politics until the origins of the footage were clear. That seems like the best silent way of waiting till justice is served!