If you woke up one day and learned that thousands of Red Chinese soldiers were stationed at the Navy base in San Diego, then surely you'd consider the U.S. an occupied country -- right?
“Those countries all have a permanent U.S. military presence.”
Allies are not colonies.
“If you woke up one day and learned that thousands of Red Chinese soldiers were stationed at the Navy base in San Diego, then surely you’d consider the U.S. an occupied country — right?”
Nope - not if we had an alliance with them. Countries are “occupied” against their will. Saudi Arabia asked us to be there. We went. Then they asked us to leave. We left. Clearly there’s no U.S. occupation of Saudi Arabia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_withdrawal_from_Saudi_Arabia
You can keep floundering all you want, but you were wrong from the beginning and nothing will change that.