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[Spec Ops: The Line] (MASSIVE SPOILERS) Would the US really lose a war against the Middle East? Can't Europe and allies back them up?

The CIA guy wanted to kill all of Dubai with thirst to prevent a war with the Middle East. That apparently the US 'has no hope to win in'... How would the US lose? Would this be a war set in the US, or in the Middle East?

Also why all of Middle East? Wouldn't it be UAE vs US since Dubai is in UAE?

Wouldn't allies step in once Middle Eastern forces step on US soil?
gpt
A war with the UAE could have triggered a trade war with OPEC. At the time (its no longer true) OPEC had a lot of ability to fuck with the US by simply shutting off the flow of oil, then it becomes a race against the clock, the US would have to win before reserves (the US stockpiles oil for this very reason) it needs to fight the war run dry. Based on the last major empire to get hit this way (Japan). the US would probably do something completely insane in an effort to secure more oil supplies like try to invade the whole of OPEC at once.

As for not simply steamrolling them in a month then moving to counter insurgency for 20 years like in Iraq/Afghanistan, the UAE was still actively receiving military aid.  That total airspace dominance looks a lot shakier when your opponent has missile that can kill aircraft carriers and F-16s.