America’s Retreat From The Persian Gulf

America knows its bases are indefensible

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7 min readOct 17, 2024
“Potential Contingency Basing Structure” is the White word for retreat

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From deep within the imperial war machine, there is a sensation approaching sentience, or at least a dim sense of self-preservation, albeit too little, too late. As much as military censors pooh-pooh Iran’s attacks on ‘Israel’, CENTCOM is shitting itself. As former CENTCOM commander Frank McKenzie has said, “There is no strategic depth,” and “The United States will not be able to maintain these bases.” What he proposes is a wholesale retreat from the Persian Gulf. What he doesn’t understand is the historical nature of this defeat.

Retired General Frank “Spuds” McKenzie specializes in running away. He retreated from Iraq, retreated from Afghanistan, and then retreated from serving America entirely. He now works for JINSA, the Jewish Institute for National inSecurity, which has “of America” tacked on as a fig leaf over naked foreign interference. I would care if “Israel” was a real country, but it’s not. America, ‘Israel,’ rump Europe, it’s all one White Empire and they all suck. As a representative of the imperial blob, Spuds has got the message from Iran, though of course, he still advocates assassinating the messenger (“strikes against Iranian national leadership could be considered.”)

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Indrajit (Indi) Samarajiva is a Sri Lankan writer. Follow me at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.

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