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Yes and that is highly problematic, and actually illegal for UK to allow! Except those runs are classified as defensive, but I don’t see how you make that argument when the war is 100% the Americans being the aggressor. They can just go home, and the war will be over. USA has no need to be there, and Iran is just defending themselves. There is no way I can see to reasonably call those runs defensive.
IDK about France, but the Rammstein base is American, so I don’t know how much control Germany has over what USA does with it. But I know they’ve made problems enough for Trump to be extremely pissed.
That is understandable IMO, refueling and recon are not acts of war. So I think they have found that a sensible balance to not seem unreasonable.
Seems a bit like a glass half empty or half full opinion. I agree zero would be better. But besides not actually helping, it seems to me that most European countries have done a lot to prevent USA from having an easy time. This is very different from how it used to be in the cooperation/alliance between Europe and USA.
This is a very strong signal from Europe that we don’t agree with what USA is doing.
AFAIK all EU countries have declared the war against Iran illegal! I don’t recall that ever happening before.
I think a stance like that of Spain would be ideal: close the airspace to US military aircraft. Let them use the base however the fuck they want.
I feel like it had more to do with Merz making public statements humiliating trump. There was (and still is!) plenty of US military aircraft landing and taking off from Rammstein. The clown-in-chief is a narcissist who can’t stand public criticism or humiliation of his person, so a reaction like this sounds up his alley.
Both are logistical support for a war that is poised to seriously hurt their economies.
Look at it another way: what would you say if Romania let Russian spy aircraft use their airfields for recon over Ukraine, and Russian support aircraft fly refuelling missions for bombers, in exchange for “military protection” and “economic support”? Would it still be a “sensible balance” then?
Idunno, almost all of them allowed the US to use their territories to wage an illegal war. Whether actual bombing runs were permitted is a bit immaterial here just like the “defensive” label on those operations. Recon and logistics are necessary components of a war, and allowing the US to perform them makes no sense for a war that will hurt you.
While I agree that there has been some good marginal changes from the last illegal war, it is still clear who is the empire and who is the de-facto vassal. If the relationship is that of equal allies, where are all the European military bases on continental US soil?