Russia and China are huge countries with huge ground armies. Neither of those two have 800 bases spread around the world. Neither of those two spend trillions projecting military might around the globe. This year Russia will spend $70 billion on military and they are in great shape to defeat anything NATO (spending $1.3Trillion) can throw at them. In the era that gunboat diplomacy became obsolete, it will take the relative easy sinking of a U.S. carrier or two before the idiots in the Pentagon notice.
“””””Neither of those two have 800 bases spread around the world.”””””
Neither do we, the lefty source has 54 of those “bases’ on Guam, 34 on Puerto Rico, 120 of them are in Japan, 119 are in Germany, South Korea has 73 of them, Italy 44.
Do you really believe that Guam has 54 American military bases on it?
American arms procurement is a scam and a joke.