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UAE official: More than 90% of Iran's targets were civilian infrastructure
(www.politico.com)
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Oh boohoo. That's what all those US bases are for, to protect you right, how's that working out for you?
Also Iran has provided evidence that this "civilian infrastructure" was housing US troops because they didnt want Iran to know where they were.
GCC countries are fine with the war until they no longer benefit from it. This is all them being pissy that they can't make money hand over fist while oil prices are high.
Most ludicrous crap were their comments and cries of being "neutral" while hundreds of aircraft were actively taking off and landing from their US bases lol. Someone on lemmy was even claiming that Iran shouldn't have attacked the GCC because they were "nominally neutral" lol.
Iran did what no country has effectively done before; they kicked the American empire in the nuts.
Every country and their mom that bought into the US hegemony is suddenly facing the sharp consequences of an adversary whose original "mistake" was overthrowing its own US backed regime.
Half the UN is calling Iran daily to put on a permanent ceasfire, but now they have zero reason to after crippling the petroleum supply line for only like four and a half weeks.
The temp ceasfire expires in 2 days, and I fully expect the strait to close again for a long time as the fighting resumes.
But can the Gulf countries actually say no to the US? They don't have Iran's drone fleet or tunnel network, and are much more dependent financially on the dollar. I get the feeling that they're caught between a rock and a hard place here. And at least some of those 'accidents' and 'friendly fire' could be them doing what they can get away with.
They bought into the colonial system from their very existence. Most of the GCC started out as British backed insurgents against the Ottman empire.
Once they kicked the Ottomans out, they all established hard monarchies to solidify political power, and outsourced their security to the British, who took immediate advantage of the massive oil reserves discovered in the region.
Post WWII, after the British empire collapsed, they transitioned to the US under the same deal.
They make trillions of dollars through oil sold only in USD, which they reinvest into the US economy. The US gets to dictate their foreign policy and use them however they please in exchange.
The benefactors are exclusively the royal families and their friends, which is why KSA and UAE are notorious for human trafficking and exploited foreign labor because they spend none of that money on actually developing their nation's societies.
They had multiple opportunities not to enter such an exploitable system, but they chose not to, with the grand exception being Iran, which was the only successful overthrow of a US/UK imposed government.