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The American empire has over 1000 overseas military bases with between a dozen and 45,000 personnel. The United States spends more to operate its overseas military bases each year than China spends on its entire military. Several of these bases have become worthless yet remain open because of bureaucratic resistance. The largest unneeded base is also the oldest overseas base, the US Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, known as Gitmo. No combat forces are based there or even combat support forces. There are no ships, no aircraft, no weapons, nor munitions based at Gitmo. The lights could be shut off at expensive Gitmo tomorrow and everyone flown home and the US Navy wouldn’t notice, except that it would free manpower and resources for a dozen more warships.
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“All Bases Covered”; Tom Engelhardt, Antiwar.com; January 10, 2011; https://original.antiwar.com/engelhar…
“Overseas Base Closure List”; Carlton Meyer; G2mil; 2016; https://www.g2mil.com/OBCL.htm
Related Tale: “The Empires Cuban Colony 1898 -1959”: • The Empire’s Cuba…
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It’s bad enough when you let psychopaths roam the streets. When you put them into positions of power it’s much worse.
The reason it’s never closed is because those doing the closing would want to cut more and close more and the military won’t have any of that. If there is one “sacred cow”, that is worshiped and never slain, its the idolatrous military by the brainwashed dolts within the US. They bow down before this evil god time and time again. And just like Moloch… this demonic being demands a never ending ever expanding river of blood.
The huge military is necessary because we need it to prevent an invasion across our southern border. Oh wait, we are being invaded across our southern border. Why is the military not stopping the invasion? Oh wait, the military is helping the invaders. My bad!
The idea that changing world events might make gitmo useful/important in the future is also a reason for continuance.