• hitmyspot@aussie.zone
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    10 hours ago

    It was also to tell neighbours that hosting a US base put them at risk, rather than be a security benefit.

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      5 hours ago

      Those neighbors, at least Kuwait, the Emirates and Saudi Arabia, were right alongside the Israelis in lobbying Trump to start the war. Then they thought they could stand idly by and cash in on the carnage while other people did the killing and dying. And they’ve also had a long history of murdering their indigenous Shi’a populations, and funding or waging wars to kill them elsewhere, such as in Yemen.

      So this sounds like chickens coming home to roost.