[phicoh]

The situation in Europe is even more crazy. The US needs the bases in Europe to project power in the Middle East. If every country in Europe would ask the US to leave then the US would have a very serious issue projecting power around the world.

The US bases are also pretty expensive to set up. Lots of logistic support has to be in place to let those bases function. That require a lot of support from the host country. Normally, you would expect the US to be friendly with the host countries, but that seems lost on the current administration.

What is really wrong is that it is known that russia is fighting in Ukraine with drones designed in Iran. And we have seen how hard it is for US designed weapons to deal with those drones. To the point that a lot of development is happening in Ukraine to deal with this problem.

By attacking Iran, the US has shown the world that Ukraine is the weapon supplier of choice against future drone wars.

[kdheiwns]

Yeah, the US is trying to peddle massive missiles that individually cost as much as the entire defense budget for some small nations, as well as large boats that are just giant sitting ducks. Ukraine is showing that cheap drones are the best defensive asset to have and are currently difficult to counter. China is always flaunting their drone shows, and there's no doubt they've got a defensive/offensive fleet of them ready to go and the US seems to be making zero efforts at making any sort of defense against them. There's been plenty of time to learn from Ukraine and the US military industrial complex is just twiddling their thumbs and sucking up money for more of last century's tech