You really don’t know what real dominant behavior is by a nation. The military bases you point are left overs from a world war. Even most of those are mainly basing rights used mainly to respond to Cold War actions by the Soviet Union.
Its nice to see someone who remembers real history. Not the made up history for the politics of the moment. It is a surprisingly common affliction among conservatives.
You really don’t know what real dominant behavior is by a nation. The military bases you point are left overs from a world war.
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Don’t confuse military adventurism with dominant behavior. Vietnam and Afghanistan were anything but examples of dominant behavior.
With respect to your second point, we’ve had bases in Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Dgibuoti, Iraq, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, plus other other facilities in obscure places such Niger and Syria. So your statement about the bases being left over from a world war is not at all accurate.