Yeah, while I tend libertarian myself, that’s just a bad idea. We do have interests and treaty obligations around the world and to be able to honor our requirements, we need bases. We don’t necessarily need bases in countries that hate us, so I support moving our German bases to Poland, which would dearly love us to be there. And sure, there are some that should be closed because we don’t really need them any more.
But war, direct or otherwise, with China is starting to edge on inevitable and we’re not going to be able to prosecute that war without long established bases. If our ships have to sail all the way back across the Pacific for repairs, we’re going to lose a lot more of them and probably lose.
You must not know about the places called “Japan” South Korea” and “The Philippians”
We can’t honor anything with $22,000,000,000,000 national debt and climbing. We are more in debt than any country in history of mankind. We are flat broke, but just won’t admit it.
I can’t think of anything more stupid than borrowing money from Japan & China to fight wars in the middle-east, to protect oil flows from middle-east to Japan & China. They are both bleeding us dry economically, and we no longer need the middle-east oil, thanks to president Trump.