Rude awakening for Gulf countries in the Iran War.

Historically the bases have served multiple countries well. Now there is a man in charge who is only interested how he can use America for his own profit. No doubt lot of this oil revenue and other spoils will find it's way to his family's pockets.

South Korea could have known they weren't being protected. The US population knows that the US military cannot protect it but is designed to crush it. Europe understands you occupy it to destroy society, not to protect Europe. Taiwan understands that. They already knew in all those places before Hegseth said we defend nobody, we maximize lethality, before US took the defending missiles away and put them in Israel.