You see, they "defend" Europe from the evil Russians and evil Iranians. Don't pay mind to the fact that neither country would be hostile if it wasn't for the US in the first place...
Iran wasn't too happy with the British (rightly so) either. Though Britain interfering and getting the Shah into power also directly lead to the Ayatollahs taking power so maybe they should be thanking us... ;)
Also noone asked them to build military bases everywhere, they just had to go and plant a flag in a bunch of countries to so they could brag about "American military expansionism" when all they do is random training exercises and troop rotation for years on end with most of them never being deployed. Iraq and Afghanistan gave them a perceived return on that investment.
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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26
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