From the UK to the Gulf, are US overseas bases becoming liabilities?
For decades, these bases allowed the US to wage faraway wars.
Al Jazeera English reported that for decades, these bases allowed the US to wage faraway wars.
Now, Iran has changed that calculation.
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- United States · Americas
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- the UK, Gulf, Iran
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- World
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