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[–] NIB 17 points 3 months ago (21 children)

They have US military bases there

There are no US military bases in Cyprus. There are british ones(since Cyprus used to be part of the British Empire).

And there is 0% chance that Cyprus would let israeli military launch attacks from Cyprus.

Nor is there much strategic reason to do so, unless Hezbollah has some s-300/400 and Israel needs to go around them and attack from a different direction. But they dont. And even if they had, Cyprus has basically no reason to allow Israel to do that and there is 0 precedent for that either.

I think it is just Hezbollah being an attention whore.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (20 children)

There are no US military bases in Cyprus.

They have, at least according to the

List of American military installations - wiki

Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia (Cyprus)

  • RAF Akrotiri

I suppose the above could also be a reply for [email protected].

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Akrotiri and Dhekelia are British, not American, although American units are based there. More pertinently though, they're not part of the country of Cyprus. They're British overseas territories on the same island.

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