Brief: Why the US Wants to Give F-35s to the UAE

As Israel normalizes relations with Arab countries, a regional alliance against Iran grows larger.

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Background: The United States has helped Israel maintain its military superiority in the Arab-Israeli conflict for about as long as there has been an Arab-Israeli conflict. That hasn’t stopped Washington from arming Arab Gulf monarchies such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates nominally opposed to Israel but largely absent from the conflict. What […]

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