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[–] Rom@hexbear.net 90 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

So are they saying that having overseas military bases is a bad thing now, or?

[–] BrezhnevsEyebrows@hexbear.net 64 points 10 months ago (3 children)

They're trying their damn hardest to conjure up some sort of whataboutism to throw at people who point this out

[–] WHATABOUTISM_DETECTOR@hexbear.net 47 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] BrezhnevsEyebrows@hexbear.net 41 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Precisely, bot

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

America, Britain and a handful of other military powers have a global network of bases that have existed for decades and are mostly legacies of empire, the second world war and the cold war.

"legacies of empire" lmao. "We're not building new bases, just continuing to occupy 800 existing ones, so that totes makes our imperialism okay guys!"

[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

119 bases in Germany

119 bases in Japan

jokerfied

[–] Notcontenttobequiet@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago

The US military is definitely not the fourth Reich

[–] Rooskie91 1 points 10 months ago

America operates over 800 foreign bases. If you just count "military installations", it's over 1,000. Russia, America's closest competitor has 9.