🇦🇪❌🇺🇸 UAE restricts US ability to launch retaliatory airstrikes against Iran proxies

Some Arab countries, including the United Arab Emirates, are increasingly restricting the U.S. from using military facilities on their soil to launch retaliatory airstrikes on Iranian proxies, according to four people familiar with the issue.

Amid a rising civilian death toll in Gaza, several Arab countries, particularly those “attempting a detente with Iran,” are “increasingly restricting” the U.S. and partners from conducting self-defense operations from their soil, according to the U.S. official. This includes limits on retaliatory strikes against attacks in Iraq, Syria, and the Red Sea, the official said.

Certain Arab countries are restricting access to basing and overflight for the assets participating in these retaliatory strikes, the official said. It’s not clear how many countries are taking this action.

The reason the UAE in particular is doing this, per one of the Western officials, is “they don’t want to appear like they’re against Iran and they don’t want to appear too close to the West and Israel for public opinion reasons.” The UAE has in recent years also raised concerns about increasing attacks from the Houthis in Yemen. The rebel group has previously launched missiles into the UAE.

🔗 https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/14/united-arab-emirates-retaliatory-airstrikes-iran-00141460

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Argentina closed 2023 with 211.4% inflation, the highest since 1990: the December CPI rose to 25.5%,

While these are horrible numbers they actually represent a significant inflationary slowdown compared to the beginning of December where inflation was estomated between 30% and 40% with a daily growth of around 1.4% daily, this has proven a small victory in the markets due to the success of the shock measures applied by the Economic Minister Caputo.

Argentina also surpasses Venezuela for the first time in more than 20 years and is already the highest in the region by a huge margin, inflation in 2024 will likewise remain significantly large but lower than the 2023 numbers with 2025 expected to drop massively to between 5 and 10%.