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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The US is counting on them to become a desperate vassal state that they can turn into a military base just like Australia and a bunch of other struggling island nations

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I wonder if the US will learn any lessons from the current situation in the Middle East where a bunch of forward bases which are difficult to resupply and cannot mutually support each other are more of a liability than an asset.

Probably not.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They won't.

They will continue to keep losing wars until they collapse under their own weight like the Roman Empire, because they believe in some spiritual and/or pseudoscientific woo about manifest destiny, wealth, and whiteness making them the world's main characters or some shit. They really believe they're the world's chosen people.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Those aren't "forward deployed bases", sweaty, they're "trip wire" bases. maybe-later-kiddo