eli5: Why does USA have military bases and soldiers in many foreign countries?
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To maintain global hegemony, the United States needs immediate power over smaller nations and a penopticon of military presence due to low global response times. We lord over the global south with weaponized debts from inequal trade to steal their natural resources and give relatively little in return other than the construction of some productive forces their own peoples are restricted from legitimately profiting from. Anyone who tells you a us military base is good for a country in the long run is selling you trickle down economics and calling it something else.
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