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Pet Peeve of mine: using the term "US Ally" for states that are not in fact US Allies under any formal treaty arrangement. We occasionally work with all sorts of countries. Sometimes we engage in military cooperation with them in pursuit of our interests... 1/6
...but we have *actual treaty obligations* to a much smaller number. I see in particular a lot of 'US Ally Does Human Rights Violation!' stories where the country in question isn't a treaty ally and the USA has no formal obligations to them. 2/6
Now those stories are valid, important stories - there are some relationships that the USA might want to reconsider in light of the human rights violations going on. But the transactional informality of those relationships is an important point that gets elided. 3/6
Anyway, there are two fair ways to count US allies. Option 1: Add NATO + State department designated Major non-NATO ally (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_non-NATO_ally …). Option 2: Actually look at which states the USA has treaty obligations to defend. 4/6
For option two, you have NATO (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO ), ANZUS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANZUS ), the Rio Pact (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-American_Treaty_of_Reciprocal_Assistance …), plus bilateral obligations with Japan, the Philippines, and South Korea. Israel, Pakistan and Taiwan are less clear-cut but probably included. 5/6
So no, Ethiopia is not a US ally, neither is Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, etc. It's fine to describe those countries as friendly, or cooperative or what have you - and argue that the USA ought to be more critical of them - but they are not formal allies and that matters. end/6
I provide an actually exhaustive list of currently recognized mutual defense treaties involving the United States lower in the tweet thread.
I think the capitalization of "ally" is doing a lot of heavy lifting for a rather pedantic distinction. Not that Wikipedia is an ultimate authority, but the vernacular usage of the term is well-established, including on the part of US leaders themselves.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia%E2%80%93United_States_relations …
Brett is hardly the only person to make this point, and I think he is correct, but it is also very true that Israel and Saudi Arabia fall into a separate category of "informal" allies who don't have a mutual defense pact but would *probably* defend each other if attacked.
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