Good point.
But you must also realize that if not for the billions of US dollars going to the Dubai/UAE monarchy each day, they would likely run back to their Christian-Judeo hating friends.
Money is a very powerful incentive to "friendship". And consider that Dubai is addicted to our dollars just as much as we are addicted to their oil.
If the dollars were suddenly cut off, they'd go into withdrawal, and it wouldn't be pretty.
Good point.
But you must also realize that if not for the billions of US dollars going to the Dubai/UAE monarchy each day, they would likely run back to their Christian-Judeo hating friends.
Money is a very powerful incentive to "friendship". And consider that Dubai is addicted to our dollars just as much as we are addicted to their oil.
If the dollars were suddenly cut off, they'd go into withdrawal, and it wouldn't be pretty.
Why would you spout such untruths. Just what dollars does the US give to UAE. We lease port terminals for the Navy from them. We do about 10 billion in trade which is a wash. We do not get oil from the UAE they are not allowed to dock in our ports. Remember In addition oil is but a small part of their economy. Trade is their prevailing economy. Just what dollars are you going to cut off. You are going to pull the US navy out of their ports? Since the US fit they have already said they are going to start restricting some US navel access. If you pulled the whole US Navy the British would be there in a fore night.
It is the opposite, the UAE has given over 2 trillion dollars in contracts to 500 different American companies in the last 5 years and brought up your debt. Two trillion dollars is not small change even for the US. These contracts are not exclusive, they could just as well have gone to Britain or Europe. Even now US business is extremely worried while politics remain ignorant. The simple act of not renewing the contracts would send the stock market in the toilet and wipe out a large portion of American wealth. Dubai is a far modern city than any in the US and many US and British citizens are moving there.
You are not the bully you think you are!! The UAE does not need your dollars, they need a place to spend their dollars and you are not exclusive. They do not need a Army, Navy, terrorists, Islam, or any such to promote our downfall. They only need to; one, have nothing to do with us and two, spend their dollars elsewhere. The port deal has made that possible and it seems we wish our own misfortune. Twenty years ago the US owned 75% of the wealth in the world, today it is less than 50% and the projection is that in another twenty years it will be less than 24%. Let politics keep refusing trade and our prospects will be even less bright. Christian-Judeo hating friends or Islam hating friends need not be a factor. They are both fanatics.