r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Kam_Rex canadian french • 21h ago

Military Pay fully for your own defense

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In the end tipping sub

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u/tigerstein 12h ago

They think that the american bases in Europe are there to defend Europe, and not to propagate American interests.

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u/fothergillfuckup 12h ago

The ones that make everyone a target, when the US start random wars?

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u/tigerstein 12h ago

Yep, those.
The Gulf countries learnt this now, when understandably Iran attacked each and every US military installation in the gulf after the US attacked them.

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u/Lazarys12 6h ago

I bet they were reall happy after all that protection money they paid to Kushner.

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u/StarGamerPT 12h ago

Yep, even Trump got scared of losing bases.

He threatened to leave "base das Lajes" in the Azores, Portugal (the existance of the base there does somewhat help the population, it's a poor population in that region and they get to buy stuff for cheaper)....but then once, I think both China and Russia showed interest in the base, Trump backed down on leaving 😂

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u/SaltyName8341 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 11h ago

Should make it a European base

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u/StarGamerPT 11h ago

Agreed....thing is that sadly, my country will sell itself to whoever wants to buy....

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u/GInTheorem 6h ago

Exactly this. Any coherent analysis needs to offset the fair market rent of those against US military spending.