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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
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.
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.
Those aren't "forward deployed bases", sweaty, they're "trip wire" bases.