[Elyse]

If our dollars were to stop flowing to UAE/Dubai today, their friendship would suddenly be looking elsewhere for security, and I'm sure you are smart enough to figure out where that is.

I'm a flag-waving patriot who is proud that the US is the world's #1 super-power, BUT I don't let that pride turn into arrogance.

If our US dollars stopped flowing to the UAE they would barely feel the pinch. The vast majority of their investments are in Australia, Asia, and the EU. If they needed help with security there would be a huge multi-national coalition on their doorstep in the blink of an eye. They don't NEED us.

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If they needed help with security there would be a huge multi-national coalition on their doorstep in the blink of an eye.

Are you serious?

The other countries in the world, except Brittain and Austrailia and Israel (and they aren't welcome) are too scared of their own shadow to send a substantial number of combat ready security troops into the UAE-Middle East areas.

Oh, they might send a token of a hundred or so advisors and a ship or two, but they would balk at full regiments aka the USA.

Without the USA in the lead, the rest of the world is rarely up to snuff.