Saudis and Emeratis
Actually on par, if not even higher than the foremost treatler class of the west.
Saudis and Emeratis
Actually on par, if not even higher than the foremost treatler class of the west.
without america they wouldn’t last a month.
There is a scale of vassalage between us-occupied Afghanistan and the UK, both are vassal states, but the UK wouldn't last less than a month even if the us retreated at large. Again, if these governments were so weak that they needed so much us support and are so dependent on us barking orders, then America would have just annexed them directly.
The BENEFIT of having vassals is that they can act autonomously and not need incessant resource input by the Metropole. BUT that also means that vassals can act out or build their peripheral empire (which is how most empires actually came to be, as peripheral vassals who rose as their overlord declined). AND it also means there is a section of the vassal elite that wants/benefits from being a vassal. AND it also means the vassal needs to actually make sure their overlord don't neglect them (back then it was kowtowing to the emperor, nowadays it's AIPAC)
Saying that country x is a vassal and meaning they have no "agency" and everything is 43945037490234329D chess move by the american president is mechanical materialism, the same is the case with claiming the us doesnt influence these governments at all (even when clearly is fatal to their own interests, like Nordstream or Plaza Accords). DIALECTAL one foremost should think - vassals are influenced but the vassal also needs to influence.
The UAE military have port access in Eritrea
Not anymore, they got kicked out. Eritrea did a 180 since the gaza genocide. Thats why the Somaliland deal finally happened.
of course that could only happen in Gelsenkirchen
Lately? And true to that, although right now Greenland is likely going to be annexed and settled by americans, if they lose it at all.
Yeah but only the kennedys do get that reverence that the royal family does. Nobody really cares about Chelsea Clinton.
Tbf if she had the kennedy last name they would have used it in the headline.
As someone with a lot of connections with industrial workers in key industries, I can affirm the same thing happening.
Americans make fun of Brits and their royal family, but the Kennedys literally receive the same worship.
They are against israhell putting its fingers into their pies, not israhell existing and genociding palestinians.
Bahrein is a tiny island and a sunni apartheid state ever fearful being taken over by "Shiite Iranians" - so they align with Saudi Arabia. Kuwait is a giant us base.
Israhell was already in the works before WW2; it even predates WW1. Creating Israhell on german soil misses practically what everyone and their dog actually wanted in that time period. It is also born out of a strange remnant of liberal zionist thought, where zionism is bad because it was done to the "wrong people" and not because it's a racist, supremacist ideology. Also helps strengthen pro-zionist propaganda because israhell as a shelter for battered victims of a massive atrocity is more sympathetic than a European colonial movement decades in the making.
It was never a historically feasible thing (look at the Jewish autonomous oblast - I wonder why that did not take off?) and only serves as a romantiszed fantasy of liberal zionist wanting a "good Israel" just like some leftist imagine a "good British empire" and a "good us" who where instriscially anti-fascist in its character because they fought nazi germany.