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Bahrain’t
What a coincidence, the worthless thugs they housed were also useless
“Those bases were not a deterrent against Iranian attacks. Instead, they became the target of those attacks. They became magnets for those attacks, and as a result, reliance on the American security umbrella really seems to be in shatters,” Parsi explained.
Big glowing targets that say “hit us here to cripple our ability to kill your people”
One outcome of this may be the Gulf turning towards Israel to make up for their inability to “find some sort of an arrangement with Iran”, he said.
Lmao
inability
weird way to phrase “complete unwillingness to even try, and shooting themselves in the dick instead”
The second half of the article is about how all the gulf countries are likely to partner with Israel for security instead, to which I have to say: lol, lmao
Honestly I think that’s a genius idea; I remember native Americans also had hundreds of treaties with us and I imagine Gulf countries will get to enjoy the same benefits
Any security guaranteed by Israel is really backed by the United States, so we’re on the hook. Again.
And our politicians will be glad to agree, just so they can say we can’t afford health care like every other fucking nation on the planet.
There is no effectual US backed security guarantee in the Persian gulf anymore, it’s over.
(un)based
How many days / weeks into a war with China before Guam stops?
Having actually been there several years back I find this hard to believe, that base is pretty big. Can’t really see how or why Iran would have dumped enough on it to render it completely uninhabitable or unusable. I’d love to be wrong.
I find this hard to believe, that base is pretty big
I’m currently working in Qatar, and the first couple of days of those barrages we were hearing interceptors working almost as often as there were hours in the day; now take that, and know that Bahrain got it worse, MUCH worse. Unless it’s primarily built as a well protected underground system, I’d be genuinely surprised if it was still viable.
It was really easy to hit, especially once the radars were down, so they hit it a lot
And I can see why the navy wouldn’t want to use the base again, turns out that location is utterly defenseless
All those far-out bases are indefensible, the only defense they rely on is “no one would dare to attack them”.
Which goes right out the window when you attack the most heavily armed country within 500km of your base.
That’s true, all those bases are. It’s just the US has fought nothing but dirt farmers with AKs in years and years.
Edit: BBC is corroborating.
lmao
If this is true, this seems pretty significant
You mean: Big if True.
