The "list of US bases" posted by mostly Russian/Chinese nationalists is the best example of this, where they complain about US bases "surrounding" them in allied countries - like bro you're so close to the point
this person is literally saying that US bases are necessary to protect their allied countries or protect some liberal notion of global peace. The liberal implication is that without US bases everywhere, the whole world would immediately collapse into global war.
God these people are so smug they don't think we understand their positions. The problem is they do that on purpose, they deliberately mislead people about their own positions using vague language like freedom, democracy, liberty when they could just be open about how they're imperialists who want the US and EU to dominate the whole world.
cw: SA, violence
Also there's the implication that countries allied to the USA want the bases there, which isn't true. South Korea is constantly pissed off about the bases, Japan as well. I also can't imagine Filipino people are very happy about the American bases either. Every few months some American dipshit soldier will do something like kill and/or sexually assault someone near the base, the country will have a huge uproar about it, and then nothing happens, the base stays there.
it's also the most presumptuous pigheaded western attitude to decide other countries need American military presence to have stability. can we throw everyone who posts on the neoliberal board into a big pit of fire in Terraria please?