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I hope countries realise that having a US base in your country puts you at risk
I hope this signals that those US bases are also flammable
It should, not only do US bases do not provide security, they increase insecurity by desestabilizing neighbouring countries, but they also hinder economic activity by shutting down airspaces when blowback happens. On top of that, they also charge you for it!
the US military bases are the sword of damocles over the heads of the gulf monarchs.
The entire US military is a mafia protection racket
My worry is if Qatar responds how I expect them to respond, there will be an asumption of the US still that a base in a forign nation is untouchable.
I doubt Qatar would want to get involved in this war. Unless Iran does something to actively harm Qatar, I think the Qatari monarchy may actually think Iran is doing them a favor.
Qatar is a mixed bag. There's a Hezbollah unit inside Qatar territory. Qatar is also home to Al Jazeera, which is the main anti-Israeli newspaper in middle east. Qatar is also one of the places where people from different factions go to negotiate. It's almost the Switzerland of the middle east.
Qatar not wanting to get involved really is the point. Hosting military bases for imperial adventurist foreign nations is guaranteed to put you at risk. When you're rolling in cash and bombs aren't falling on you, it's easy to forget that fact. This is a nice reminder.
The people understand this. Even in peacetime these bases are a cancer on the people as american troops r*pe and abuse the areas around the base.
The bourgeoisie and their governments however know that without these bases their strangle hold on the means of production would be much more tenuous.