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because now we are in a bind (because we killed the port deal).

Yeah right. Where is the UAE gonna go to sell their oil? Botswana?

Where is the UAE gonna get protection and weaponry against Iran and Syria? China?

Fine. They will be the losers, and they know it.

All for a lousy $8 billion clams.

It is the USA which has the upper hand in this world, both financially, morally and in 57 other ways.

[TigersEye]

Where is the UAE gonna go to sell their oil? Botswana?

China and India are in the market. Course, there's not many people there.

[Mr. Mojo]

Spot on -- we carry the big stick, and this dead deal isn't going to change that fact. If the UAE decides to "retaliate against American strategic and commercial interests" and oppose us geopolitcally, they'll (eventually) pay for their stupidity in a big way....