"The Gulf states can no longer trust the US' ability or willingness to protect them from existential threats."
One of Iran's goals is to undermine the trust of Gulf and other Middle Eastern countries in the US for security protection. The successful attacks by Iran on US military bases and radar systems in Bahrain, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq, as well as the damage caused to Dubai and the UAE as a whole, are intended to show Arab countries that the alliance with the US is unreliable, and that the US is unable to guarantee regional security in case of a military crisis. Iran has already achieved this goal.
The US foreign policy magazine Foreign Policy stated: "The Gulf states can no longer trust the US' ability or willingness to protect them from existential threats."
The journal's author also emphasized that, moving forward, Gulf states will view the presence of US military bases as a source of danger, rather than a source of security.
In this sense, the so-called "military victory" of the US against Iran, which US War Secretary Pete Hegseth has insisted upon, is clearly overshadowed by the bitterness of a political defeat. War has not strengthened, but rather weakened the US position in the region, and Iran has caused substantial damage to it.
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