not counting the secret ones
a fun* thing to do is to ask people how many bases the us has in other countries
then ask them how many bases china or russia have in other countries. idk what the numbers are now but last time i looked, china and russia have somewhere around 10. combined. it is absurd to believe anything other than the patent truth that the united states is constantly threatening the whole world in a manner so obvious it would be trite if it were written for a cartoon villain
*not fun at all. bring citations, handouts, and pepper spray
threatening? you misunderstand this is for their protection and not because our defensive strategy has been—since when we “freed” Indonesia and Guam—to create a first line of defense in other countries. definitely not so that any troop movement would be vulnerable to flanking and harassment by our sphere of defense, without risking our country at all. nonsense. preposterous. and these certainly aren’t methods by which we constantly create enemies that mean we have to stay because it’s not safe.

