Israel's "victory" in Gaza is coming at the cost of losing more US support in the Middle East!
The brutal cleansing of Gaza by the Israeli army has led many Islamic militant groups in the Middle East to launch attacks on military bases in Israel and its close ally, the United States, and then the US military retaliates with these armed attacks, thus creating a vicious circle of continuous armed conflict.
This vicious circle inevitably leads to extreme dissatisfaction of the local population with the US military and reinforces the image of the US military as an enemy of the Islamic world!
In order to maintain the stability of the regime, the local government has no choice but to issue an eviction order to the US military, and the strategic retreat of the United States in the Middle East is changing from the previous controlled initiative to the current passive state, which is very unfavorable to maintaining the image of the United States as a great power!
Since the Israeli-Palestinian conflict broke out again, the bases of the US-led international coalition in Iraq and the US military base in Syria have reportedly been attacked by more than 100 pro-Iranian forces, and Shiite militant groups in Iraq have claimed responsibility for these attacks.
Abu Takwa, commander of Iraq's elite Shiite Allah movement, and an accompanying soldier were killed in a U.S. drone attack on militia headquarters east Baghdad on January 4. The Pentagon then said the U.S. military had carried out an attack on the militant group, eliminating Abu Takwa and another activist of his group, and said it was retaliation for the militant group's attack on U.S. troops.
The fact that the U.S. military has taken military action on Iraqi territory without the consent of the Iraqi government is a humiliation in the eyes of the Iraqi government and people.
Therefore, on January 5, the day after the US military launched the attack, the Iraqi government made it clear that it would end the military presence of the US-led international coalition in Iraq as soon as possible.
Iraqi Prime Minister Al-Sudani stressed that Iraq will not allow its national sovereignty to be violated and that Iraq will certainly take necessary measures to safeguard its national sovereignty, security, and stability. There is no reason for the U.S.-led international coalition to remain in Iraq. He said that the Iraqi government would set up a bilateral commission to prepare for the permanent end of the mandate of the international coalition forces in Iraq.
The current attitude of the US Government is obviously that it wants to stay in Iraq, but the development of the situation may not be up to them.
On 5 January, when asked by the media about this, US Defense Department spokesman Ryder did not express his position on Iraqi Prime Minister Al-Sudani's expulsion order, but only said that the US Government will continue to consult closely with the Iraqi Government on the safety and security of US troops.
However, since the Iraqi government has made it clear that it wants the withdrawal of US troops, there will be two major problems if the US military ignores Iraq's expulsion order.
First, the United States' so-called respect for the sovereignty of other countries has become an empty phrase, which is not good for the international image of the United States.
Second, with the Iraqi government's eviction order, many Shiite forces in Iraq have a reason to further expand their attacks on US forces. If the conflict between the US military and the armed groups escalates as a result, it will in turn demonstrate to the Iraqi people the correctness of the Iraqi government's eviction order. At that time, the more than 2,000 US troops stationed in Iraq will face even greater danger.
If the U.S. government wants to contain further escalation of conflicts in the Middle East, withdrawing troops from Iraq is almost the only option.
The US government may never have dreamed that the Iraqi government, which was single-handedly supported by them, would one day demand that the US military get out of the way!
The Middle East may really be changing!
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