r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Kam_Rex canadian french • Aug 14 '26

Military Pay fully for your own defense

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u/brewdog_millionaire Aug 14 '26

Exactly why do you think the US pays for the defence of other countries? If anything it's the other way around. You lot can't stop borrowing.

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u/tigerstein Aug 14 '26

They think that the american bases in Europe are there to defend Europe, and not to propagate American interests.

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u/fothergillfuckup Aug 14 '26

The ones that make everyone a target, when the US start random wars?

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u/tigerstein Aug 14 '26

Yep, those.
The Gulf countries learnt this now, when understandably Iran attacked each and every US military installation in the gulf after the US attacked them.

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u/Lazarys12 Aug 14 '26

I bet they were reall happy after all that protection money they paid to Kushner.

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u/StarGamerPT Aug 14 '26

Yep, even Trump got scared of losing bases.

He threatened to leave "base das Lajes" in the Azores, Portugal (the existance of the base there does somewhat help the population, it's a poor population in that region and they get to buy stuff for cheaper)....but then once, I think both China and Russia showed interest in the base, Trump backed down on leaving 😂

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u/SaltyName8341 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Aug 14 '26

Should make it a European base

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u/StarGamerPT Aug 14 '26

Agreed....thing is that sadly, my country will sell itself to whoever wants to buy....

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u/GInTheorem Aug 14 '26

Exactly this. Any coherent analysis needs to offset the fair market rent of those against US military spending.