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Recently, the efficacy of basing the the ability of the Ukrainian military's capability to both protect its country and project power on US products and services may provide a false sense of being a US ally.
Similarly, presumably the reason the US has so many bases in the Middle East was the presumption (assumption, in this case) that they would provide protection of the oil assets of those countries. It turns out that they may have been liabilities.
This is a fascinating audit of why that could be the case:
reuters.com - Special reportiran crisis infrastructure attacksJeff
