“The U.S. also has a military base in Djibouti”
Kind of answers the question, doesn’t it?
Why do we have a base there?
1) useful place from which to kill Islamists who congregate in Yemen and Somalia.
2) sits along our primarily sea lane to the Middle East. We opened the base back in 2002.
3) secure place from which to monitor piracy along and near Somalia and protect trade routes.
“..Why do we have a base there?..”
One of the reasons is that is the base from which much our drone activity for that hemisphere is centered. The question then is: have the Chinese infiltrated that operation as they have so much here in the continental USA???
Okinawa, Guam, Midway, Diego Garcia and countless other places the US has that could ‘disrupt’ anything it wants in places accessible from our weapons there. What a dumbass question from IB.
China just seems to be sometimes doing a better job of it, like concentrating on nearby MAJOR shipping access points.....
Panama, at Djibouti, in its southern Indonesian shipping lanes, and likely something worked out for Suez when they need to do something... they could cause a LOT of problems for shipping (e.g., our economy). We could bomb and attack nearly anywhere... but to what end to help or hurt who? Only Xiden knows.