I have never thought of it this way before, but the UAE, with its imperialist shenanigans in Africa, can be thought of as the true modern-day successor to the Omani empire.

Oman nowadays is a pathetic shell of its former self, and the whole isolationist 'nothing ever happens' schtick that redditors love so much is not going to help them in the long run. They're already mutted to oblivion from their imperial past, they might as well go full imperial globohomo once again.