Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Subscription site, can you paste text?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft....4-c742b9791d43
We have a big base there. No good alternative options.
Yup. Along the same reasons we are so cozy with Saudia Arabia. Who cares about the worst violator of human rights in the Middle East (Kindom of SA), as long as they provide us bases and a strategic location?