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At least a dozen US military sites across the Gulf region have been so badly damaged by Iran's retaliation to US and Israeli attacks that their presence now creates significantly more vulnerabilities than it does benefits, a slate of Middle East experts argued on Thursday.

The original revelation about the state of the bases was first reported in The New York Times last month, in which they were described as "all but uninhabitable".

The Trump administration has yet to acknowledge the extent of the damage sustained.

"This is the physical architecture of American primacy, and Iran has essentially rendered it useless in the span of a month," Marc Lynch, director of the Project on Middle East Political Science at George Washington University, said at the Arab Center Washington DC's annual conference.

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[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 12 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

To me it seems the US arms industry is too slow to adapt and too inefficient. It's mostly a public wealth extraction operation run by rich people.

They could have paid attention to Ukraine and taken notes. Can't do that while busy burning money though.

[–] drdalek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 22 hours ago

The US hasn't faced anything more than well funded militias for 4 decades now, now they are facing a nation that hasn't had to rely much on the external powers of the world. What a fucking avoidable tragedy.

[–] hayvan@piefed.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

US of A used to be known as this unstoppable military power capable of projecting anywhere in the world. Turns out it was being hollowed from inside.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Whatever, we still have the best precision strikes on schools out of all of NATO. Our drones have killed more innocent civilians than all other nations combined.

When there is an invisible problem that is in your head

Who you gonna call?

US War Criminals!

If there is someone brown that you don't like,

Who you gonna call?

US White Supremecists!

I ain't afraid of no Nuremberg,

murdering makes them feel so good!

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

Our drones have killed more innocent civilians than all other nations combined.

Pretty sure russia owns this one...

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So what does this say about the other bases the US has around the world?

[–] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That they have a lot of copper scrap for the enterprising individual?

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 7 points 23 hours ago

They are probably horribly polluted, the host countries won't want to deal with it, the US certainly won't deal with it.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Oh no how unfortunate.