The new attack on an American base on the Jordanian-Syrian-Iraqi border brought back the new old debate about foreign military, security, political and economic interference in the “internal affairs” of the region.
This attack was of great importance because it caused deaths and dozens of injuries, and did not target, like its predecessors, dozens of uninhabited military and economic sites…
Washington and London also decided to react after that because it was the culmination of about 150 attacks on American, British, and Israeli land and naval bases and targets in the Arab Levant and in the Red Sea and the Gulf… by armed groups or governments that announced that they wanted revenge for the tens of thousands of martyrs and wounded Palestinians and Lebanese who fell since the flood. Al-Aqsa and the start of raids and attacks on the occupied Gaza Strip and the West Bank…
and what?
Will these operations lead to the expulsion of American and foreign forces from the Arab countries after their number exceeded sixty thousand, according to many sources?
Or will such attacks create additional justifications for the American, British, and Israeli forces to expand their deployment in their current bases or within their embassies, where the number of “military advisors” has increased?!!
What is the value of removing tens of thousands of Western and Israeli military personnel from their bases inside the Arab countries as long as aircraft carriers, huge warships and submarines are spread throughout the entire region from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf… and from the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea to the coasts near Djibouti, Aden, the Emirates, Kuwait, Iran and India… as well as… The huge number of troops and weapons of the American, British and Western armies inside Israel.
Did US President Joe Biden not announce last October that “Israel is the largest American military base outside the United States”??
Although the estimates differed for the number of American and Western military personnel who are participating directly and indirectly in the current war inside the occupied Gaza Strip, the official American and NATO communications confirmed that their number is in the thousands… and that NATO bases around the world have been partnered… including the bases of Germany, Greece and Djibouti. The Red Sea, the Gulf, and Central Asia.
So, it is no longer a matter of secret missions to foreign military bases, but rather a long-term strategic choice…
The importance of American and Atlantic fleets, warships, and bases is multiplying from the Gulf to North Africa and South Europe, and from African countries to Turkey, Uzbekistan, and Southeast Asia…
Washington took advantage of the opportunity of the war in Ukraine to send more than 300,000 American soldiers to Europe, about a third of whom were in Germany, where the most prominent American bases since World War II…
It took advantage of the expansion of the current war in occupied Palestine and Lebanon and the launching of missiles from Yemen, Iraq and Syria, doubling its military presence in the entire region… despite media reports about “negotiations to evacuate American military bases in Iraq and Syria”…
But will the situation remain the same after the number of missile attacks on the American, Israeli and British ship bases exceeded 160, some of which caused the injury of dozens of military and security personnel?
Or will the current crises develop into direct confrontations between NATO forces, Iran and its allies in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and occupied Palestine?
According to the statements of the representatives of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon in New York and prominent leaders in Washington, London and Tel Aviv, it seems that all parties are seeking to avoid the “total confrontation” scenario… but they will continue to launch more “battles of attrition” and the “blow for blow” plan and proxy wars..
Perhaps the effective scenario for “calm” begins with Washington and its allies soon announcing a complete ceasefire in the occupied Palestinian Gaza Strip and the start of a new path for reconstruction and political settlements…
In all cases, conflicts and conflicts will be renewed in the next stage due to the battles to “remove foreign forces” from Syria, Iraq, and the Red Sea, and… calls to close “foreign bases” in the region will increase…
But these calls may remain limited in meaning as long as a large portion of the foreign forces have diplomatic and legal cover… and they are approved within embassies and diplomatic missions within bilateral and regional military and political security agreements…