[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

I don't think that explains it, although it would be convenient, Japan and korea are close to Cambodia and Vietnam, India and Singapore are close to Myanmar but we don't care what any of them get up to and haven't since the fall of the USSR, no the Middle East is the only region we have grimly maintained our controlling interests in since we effectively gave up caring about the rest of the world, (ironically with the fall of the USSR and the 'west' leaving places like Vietnam and Cambodia to their own devices they have stopped disliking us and are now far more friendly then when we bombed the bejeesus out of them!!)

Lifing embargoes helped.