eli5: Why does USA have military bases and soldiers in many foreign countries?
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The US military is like a herpes infection, it never really goes away. Once you’ve been infected, you’ll have periodic outbreaks of it. It comes and goes as it pleases, and you have no truly viable means to stop it.
Attempting to stop it returning or staying as it pleases would likely cause the host government to be overturned, and it would just come back anyway.
It’s basically just a power thing. Little countries can’t really say no.
Edit: Comment hidden despite a positive vote count. Must have struck a nerve or reddit has shadow banned me.
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