\Israel has long wanted the United States to bear the costs of confronting Iran,
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The UAE has functioned as a Trojan horse for American and Israeli power in the Middle East. Hosting bases, intelligence assets, and financial networks while poking at Iran from just across the Gulf.
As this war escalates, that role comes with a price: U.S. partners like the UAE are now directly exposed to brutal retaliatory strikes from Iran, turning their own territory into a frontline.
Israel has long wanted the United States to bear the costs of confronting Iran, and ultimately to reshape and withdraw from the region on terms favorable to Israeli security doctrine. The more this conflict widens, the more Washington risks getting dragged deeper into a war that could both exhaust U.S. power and destabilize its Gulf allies.
What does this mean for the future of the American presence in the Middle East, and how far can this escalation go before it forces a fundamental reset? We break it all down with .
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