The U.S. has effectively withdrawn from the Middle East, eliminating DOD administrative staff and special forces in Syria, reducing Iraq presence to hundreds in advisory roles, removing presence from Saudi Arabia, closing supply lines, and no longer basing the Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, with France now having more ships in the Persian Gulf.
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Peter ZeihanEvidence Quote
“if you eliminate the administrative staff in DOA and the special forces in Syria, we're already gone. Uh troops in Iraq are there's a few there in advisory role, but you're talking in the hundreds. We don't have anyone in Saudi Arabia. Uh we don't have all all those supply lines we had to get stuff into Iraq or into Afghanistan. Those are all closed down. So the fifth fleet is no longer hanging out in Bahrain. The French typically now have more ships in the Persian Gulf than we do. we're doing.”
Created: 8/10/2026, 10:51:07 PM
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