eli5: Why does USA have military bases and soldiers in many foreign countries?
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During World War II, a lot of areas that were under the Axis powers required American soldiers to establish themselves for fear of them trying to attack. That is why you see a lot of US bases in Germany and Japan they were the former Axis powers. US military presence never really left after the second world war. NATO was established to prevent the spread of communism in Western Europe by the USSR. NATO is basically a defense system which allies US and Western Europe against the Soviets. The Philippines, a former US territory which was also under threat of Japanese imperialism had a US naval base until the 1990s.
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