[ahmeneeroe-v2]

Who is "we" in this, because it certainly isn't true of US national policy for many decades re Germany (e.g. NATO), or Japan for the last decade or so.

[quickthrowman]

Why do we have several active military bases in both countries to this day? Force projection isn’t the only reason..

[ahmeneeroe-v2]

Those are the left and right borders of the US Empire. But we want those people to spend on their own defense too.