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
Informal military guarantees are, historically speaking, worth exactly the paper they are written on and no more.
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I mean. The iraqis kinda assumed that to their detriment. Other concerns, we didn't do it out of the kindness of our hearts, fides isn't even a real thing, yeah sure. But iran isn't gonna knock over the house of saud any time soon. And not bc of the saudi air force.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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Written ones aren't worth much more, too, aren't they?
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The value of a written alliance is that it imposes greater costs for failure to live up to the terms of the arrangement. This is obviously not a perfect system and countries do breach treaties but reliability and credibility also matter.
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