We’re creating enemies faster than we can kill them. It’s good for business.

America currently garrisons the planet with more than 850 military bases around the world in more than 40 countries and U.S. territories. We deploy more than 200,000 troops across the globe. In Japan alone, we still have around 100,000 people connected to U.S. military forces living and working there, including members of the armed services, dependent family members and about 5,000 civilian employees [Intelligence Community spooks…].

The Pentagon also maintains dependent family housing complexes and schools around the globe, along with resort hotels, private ski areas and hundreds of golf courses. The bases are outrageously expensive. The US spends around $400 billion every year just to maintain its global military presence.

These huge concentrations of American military power outside the USA are not necessary for our national defense. If anything, US bases on foreign soil are a major contributor to our numerous conflicts with other countries [including our allies, as recent history has shown].

The logistics of policing the planet are unimaginable.

Germany, the UK, Italy and other EU countries [France kicked us out in 1967] all have permanent American bases, and they pay us exorbitant amounts of money for the privilege of letting us occupy their country! We force them to sign “Status of Forces Agreements” [SOFA], which basically exempts the military [as well as private contractors] from any laws. Not just the laws of the US or the host nation: they are exempt from any laws whatsoever.

SOFAs also limit liability for environmental damage and are negotiated with little public transparency.

They can’t just kick us out of their country and force us to close our bases, either. It’s in the SOFA. We make them give us like, hundred-year leases.

Plus, we’ve got NUKES.

The reason for this military presence [more like ‘occupation’…] is not to bring freedom and democracy to the world, oh no. The purpose is global hegemony and dominance over as many nations as possible: to open up new markets for US business interests…or else.

The US is also the world’s number one weapons exporter, garnishing more than seventy percent of the global arms trade. It’s ironic that our government claims to be so concerned about how dangerous the world is, when America sells billions of dollars in high-tech weaponry to virtually any two-bit dictator willing to play ball with us. The world is awash with American-made arms.

US “defense” contractors are largely responsible for making the world a more dangerous place. Weapons production is virtually the only sector of the US economy that’s healthy.

We should have heeded President Eisenhower’s ‘farewell address’ warning from 1960. It’s far too late to do anything about it now. The Military-Industrial Complex is bankrupting our country and diverting scarce resources from the desperately needed rebuilding of American infrastructure and other crucial spending needs into utterly pointless warmongering.

Instead, Trump increased military spending this year to $1.5 TRILLION[!!]

Expect more wars.