Saudi Arabia, a key Gulf ally, suspended the U.S. military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation, sources say.
Donald Trump’s abrupt reversal on his plan to help ships go through the Strait of Hormuz came after a key Gulf ally suspended the U.S. military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation, according to two U.S. officials.
Trump surprised Gulf allies by announcing “Project Freedom” on social media Sunday afternoon, the officials said, angering leadership in Saudi Arabia. In response, the Kingdom informed the U.S. it would not allow the U.S. military to fly aircraft from Prince Sultan Airbase southeast of Riyadh or fly through Saudi airspace to support the effort, the officials said.
Your system is so fucked. In a parliamentary democracy the members of the legislature for his own party would have seen his approval ratings, realised what that’ll mean for their own electoral chances and ousted him by now.
Would things be different in a parliamentary system? I’m not actually so sure. Every single member of the house of representatives is up for election in November and they don’t seem worried enough about their electoral chances to restrain him in any way.
Congress is still nominally the strongest branch of US government and they’re fully abdicating their responsibilities. What would a parliamentary system solve when one party is a death cult?
Maybe I’m just going by how things have been working in the UK in the last few years. We’ve not had a Prime Minister last a full election term since Blair in the early 2000s.
No argument there. But we can’t even get the man out of office right now; how likely is it that we’re going to change the whole system in light of that?