You may not know but this decision by the UAE is one of the worse events that has happened in 2020. I'm sure if someone will make a list of a tragedy that happened in 2020 this one will be on the list. I mean, those 2 countries are don't suppose to do these kinds of stuffs because Palestine the country who always bullied by Israel is one the UAE's concerns or I may see that was all history now. Something must be going on here, I mean they might have some under the table agreement which leads into this kind of relations.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/world-reacted-uae-israel-normalising-diplomatic-ties-200813152921879.htmlI think it was documented that there were behind the scenes meetings going on between UAE and Israel for many years. Not many people expected anything like this to happen in this way and in this time frame because the US Presidential elections are taking place in around 2.5 months and nobody can be sure which way a Biden Presidency will change the US position on the Middle East.
I'm very interested in the way the Arab world reacts to this event. On the one hand, there is a history of problems between Israel and the Arab nations.
On the other, the shape of relations between the entire Arab world and Israel cannot be dominated by the Palestinian issue.
But relations between the Arab and Muslim nations have been dominated by that single cause since before Israel was even created in 1948 and goes on today.
Oh I understand the portion regarding the fact that removing US bases in the world removes the influence of the US, and then in turn the US would be unable to control economies of other nations through the influence they wield. But that is still something that Trump did promise to do.
Most Americans agree with the line of thinking "why do we spend so much on a military abroad when we have so many issues here" which is what Trump tapped into.
Trump also did promise to end the foreign wars (some of them at least) and to bring the soldiers home. Hasn't happened, and in some regards he has even increased the amount of soldiers there. Obama did the same sort of thing -- though he did pull some troops out. Though nothing like what he had promised to do.
Trump did say he was going to close bases and end wars, that was a pledge he made but he probably had no idea the political machinery behind the scenes would not make it easy for him to make true on his word. In the end he should have done his research before he made those promises so nobody but himself is responsible for his actions.
We really, really don't need bases in Japan or Germany to "influence them" or "control economies." On the other hand, I can see areas where at least today, the world is perhaps a better place if we have bases there. But these things shift and change, at least over timeframes like decadal.
It wouldn't surprise me if various bases remain in place today that were based on geopolitical strategy of a hundred years ago.
The base in Germany was all about providing a NATO counter balance to any perceived threat by the Soviet Union during the cold war.
Do the US really need bases in Japan and Germany now? Do they need bases in the Middle East? It is all about having political influence:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/where-us-troops-are-in-the-middle-east-and-could-now-be-a-target-visualized/2020/01/04/1a6233ee-2f3c-11ea-9b60-817cc18cf173_story.htmlI mean we probably don't need bases in these areas, but not all of the bases are used for the purpose that I spoke of before. The bases in Japan are used as an anti china and anti north korea more then controlling Japan. If I knew geography I'd tell you some places that Germany is used strategically before, but ugh -- I've got nothing off the top of my head right now.
Even in some of our most cemented allies we can use bases for leverage. Imagine an area where the local workforce relies HEAVILY on the US base existing in the area (and receiving proper funding and such) -- that politican could be used as a tool to ensure that US interests are kept in the minds of policy makers.
Yes having bases in Japan is a message to China and North Korea but it also keeps Japan remembering its past. As for Germany it is about showing Russia there is a NATO base there. In recent days 1000 US troops were redeployed from Germany to Poland to take numbers there to 5500 troops.
