The US in 1.5 years sextupled its number of foreign military bases.
World Beyond War’s criteria of “any installation, facility, or site located outside the operating country that is financed, operated, leased, rented, or temporarily accessed by that country” to define a “foreign military base” is majorly misleading when taken out of context for a shitty meme.
Wonder which it is.
(Actual argument done, I can insult you without it being ad hom: fuck off, tankie. I disagree with ancoms sometimes on pragmatics, but their ethics are sound; not yours.)
The spreadsheet (source here) literally says the number of sites as of 30 September 2024. Do you understand that “site” and “military base” are different things? Here are their definitions if you want to play illiterate. A foreign site in this context can be any foreign property run by the DoD, including e.g. an office building. In your version of events, the Congressional Research Service says it’s 128 as of mid-2024, WBW using an extremely lax definition of what constitutes the US operating a military base arrived at 844, and I’m supposed to believe the CRS and the DoD differ by nearly 10x and that the WBW totally missed this public report showing that they came up with less than 3/4 of the actual number…
… Is what I would say if you weren’t completely misreading this spreadsheet anyway. 1143 represents the “grand total” of “land-only sites” in the US, US Territories, and overseas combined.
You’re. Just. Lying. Stop being disingenuous or fuck off.
Would you describe a person being annoyed by mosquitoes as having “hurt feelings”? I have no respect for you and therefore no concern for the minimal amount of time you deign to spend crafting a cogent argument for me.
What I do care about is a tankie propagandist coming into an ancom community and shitting it up with disinformation. Ancoms are friends; you are not.
So I guess we have three options:
Wonder which it is.
(Actual argument done, I can insult you without it being ad hom: fuck off, tankie. I disagree with ancoms sometimes on pragmatics, but their ethics are sound; not yours.)
Department of Defense, “FY2025 Base Structure Report,” 2024
According to DOD its now 1143 bases
The spreadsheet (source here) literally says the number of sites as of 30 September 2024. Do you understand that “site” and “military base” are different things? Here are their definitions if you want to play illiterate. A foreign site in this context can be any foreign property run by the DoD, including e.g. an office building. In your version of events, the Congressional Research Service says it’s 128 as of mid-2024, WBW using an extremely lax definition of what constitutes the US operating a military base arrived at 844, and I’m supposed to believe the CRS and the DoD differ by nearly 10x and that the WBW totally missed this public report showing that they came up with less than 3/4 of the actual number…
… Is what I would say if you weren’t completely misreading this spreadsheet anyway. 1143 represents the “grand total” of “land-only sites” in the US, US Territories, and overseas combined.
You’re. Just. Lying. Stop being disingenuous or fuck off.
Carrying water was expected. Little pissant seems to have hurt feelings
Would you describe a person being annoyed by mosquitoes as having “hurt feelings”? I have no respect for you and therefore no concern for the minimal amount of time you deign to spend crafting a cogent argument for me.
What I do care about is a tankie propagandist coming into an ancom community and shitting it up with disinformation. Ancoms are friends; you are not.
Please don’t argue with mosquitos, that’s fucking crazy man
You sound more MAGA than ancom. Based on your downvotes it doesn’t look like you are the friendly one around here
Anything based is a military base 🎖️🪖
US military confirmed operaring zero military bases?? 😱😱 (Except when helping Eastern Europe against Russia; they’re pretty based then.)