There is no reason for weakening Iran if Iran can no longer pose a threat to the US or Israel. If anything, a US-controlled Iran can play a positive role in the region for the US, by counterbalancing the Arab and Turkish influence and also limiting the Chinese influence in the Middle East. It was the case during the Shah with the Soviets and I don't think why it is no longer a good thing for the US to have Iran on its side.
I dont think so, Iran is a threat due to its potency to grow economically and technologically
It is always in the interest of Israel and its people in the US to dream weakening Iran forever
Heck, even small country like Singapore keep talking negative about Indonesian economy through their CNA Asia, The Strait Times, The Fulcrum, etc that help make negative sentiment about Indonesian economy. More like they dream 1997/98 economic crisis to happen again because it is triggered by negative sentiment in stock and money market. Something that is later against projection from respected institutions like ADB, IMF, S&P
Stronger Indonesia is always a threat to its neighbor despite we are not lead by aggressive leader like Soekarno anymore
That is a geopolitical reality
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FPDA—not fade away
21 Oct 2014
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Euan Graham
Dubbed the ‘quiet achiever’ by Carl Thayer, the FPDA’s low profile belies a brisk tempo of multinational air, naval, land and command-post exercises held regularly under its auspices among Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Boilerplate-text aside, Australia’s 2013 White Paper was surprisingly effusive on the Five Power arrangements, noting that membership ‘provides Australia with a strategically important presence in Southeast Asia that augments bilateral and other multilateral engagement’.
Indonesia’s still the most important external factor bearing upon the FPDA. Although not officially acknowledged, the FPDA was created in the shadow of Confrontation as the successor to the Anglo-Malayan Defence Agreement, to provide a non-binding level of deterrence to Malaysia and Singapore against the return of Indonesian demagoguery (the arrangement obliges parties simply to consult in case of external attack on the Peninsula).
As Canberra has embraced Indonesia’s post-Soeharto democratisation, and pursued a bilateral compact with Jakarta as its strategic priority in Southeast Asia, so the FPDA has lost some of its lustre for Australia. Singapore and Malaysia view their larger neighbour with continuing caution and are less sanguine about the prospects for defence engagement.
That explains the continuing strong support for the FPDA in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, even as their own improving relationship has rendered the arrangements less important as a conduit for managing cross-Causeway tensions.
Three years ago the Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) celebrated its 40th birthday, an anniversary that sparked a flutter of international curiosity about this most eclectic of regional security frameworks. By way of animal analogy, ...
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