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BAHRAIN: The U.S. Navy has made Bahrain the headquarters of the 5th Fleet, with more than 3,000 troops permanently stationed there. Iran has repeatedly attempted to destabilize majority Shiite Bahrain in an effort to dislodge the U.S.
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SAUDI ARABIA: Biden has had a rocky relationship with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and halted deliveries of Patriot air defense missiles to the Kingdom soon after taking ofice in 2021.
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Iranian backed militia leader in January 2024, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al Sudani has demanded the withdrawal of U.S. military forces.
SYRIA: Our eight bases, ostensibly for intelligence gathering, have been targeted by Iranian proxies more than 165 times, killing three soldiers and wounding 70 others.
JORDAN: An Iranian-controlled militia fired armed drones into a U.S. barracks in northwestern Jordan on Jan. 28, killing three American servicemen and wounding 29 others.
RED SEA: Iranian-backed Houthis attacked U.S. warships and international shipping, forcing freight to be rerouted from the Suez Canal to the Cape of Good Hope, adding an estimated three weeks to the journey from the Far East to Europe and nearly tripling the cost.
IRAN: Since Biden removed sanctions on Iran, the Islamic regime has stepped up its nuclear weapons-related activities and intensified its long-standing proxy wars on America, targeting U.S. assets in the region. The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran could produce enough weapons grade uranium for a nuclear
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SOMALIA: The U.S. troops are primarily for counterterrorism operations, while the U.S. Navy patrols shipping lanes in the Indian Ocean against Somali pirates.
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HORN OF AFRICA: A dispute between rival military leaders in Sudan erupted into civil war in April 2023, with Egypt, Ukraine, and Iran supporting one side, the UAE and Russia’s Wagner group the other.
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NIGERIA: Muslim extremists afiliated with al-Qaida massacred Christians for years until Trump designated Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) under the International Religious Freedom Act. “Ever since President Biden removed Nigeria from the CPC list early in his presidency, the killing of Christians by Muslim jihadis has gone wild,” said William Murray, president of the Religious Freedom Coalition. Over 300 Christians were slaughtered in Nigeria by Muslims on Christmas Day alone, Murray says.
NIGER: The U.S. and France have been fighting al-Qaida and ISIS-afiliated terror groups in Niger, Mali, and surrounding countries since 2013 in Operation Juniper Shield.
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CHINA/TAIWAN: In July 2023, President Xi Jinping called on China’s military to “enhance” war planning against Taiwan,
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UKRAINE: Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine was supposed to lead to the rapid collapse of Kyiv and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government. Instead, the conflict has become the first major proxy war pitting NATO against Russia, with an estimated 500,000 dead and wounded so far.
SUWALKI GAP: German war gaming exercises, leaked in January, revealed Germany’s fear that Russia will thrust through the narrow Suwalki corridor separating Poland from Lithuania to open a land supply line to Kaliningrad, a heavily fortified Russian enclave on the Baltic Sea. Without a land corridor, Russia can only resupply Kaliningrad by sea. The Suwalki corridor is also the only land bridge linking the Baltic States to the rest of NATO.
BALTIC STATES: NATO believes Russia may seek to retake the three Baltic states that it occupied from the end of WWII until the end of the Cold War. Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia are now NATO members, making an attack on any one of them a potential trigger for a direct NATO war with Russia.
KOSOVO: Deployed to deter a new outbreak in fighting between the Muslim Kosovo government and neighboring Serbia.
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SOUTH KOREA: The U.S. military is considered a “tripwire” to guarantee a massive military response in the event of an invasion from North Korea. Trump held three summits with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that temporarily reduced tensions on the peninsula. On March 24, 2022, Kim resumed testing of North Korea’s ballistic missile program, paused since 2017, warning it formed “the core” of its nuclear strike force.
QATAR: Qatar hosts the largest U.S. Air Force base in the region. Despite this close relationship, the Gulf sheikdom funds Hamas, hosts the Hamas leadership, and negotiates on behalf of Hamas.
and reiterated China’s longstanding vow to “reunify” with Taiwan during his December 2023 summit with Biden in San Francisco. The U.S. does not recognize Taiwanese independence, but guarantees the island’s security through arms sales and regular maritime patrols through the Taiwan Strait.
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