A timely reminder of our actual leverage over the US
syscall0x01 on
Nothing out of ordinary or new. British and American forces are completely synchronized. All the business on that front, and it won’t change in the future.
RAF is gearing up Eurofighters at Cyprus Akrotiri base for an immanent attack on Iran as we are speaking.
SurroundTiny on
I mean.. yeah? Always has been so far as I know.
TalkFormer155 on
Which is one of the big points we’re making in Greenland. Why would we risk building bases that protect both the US and NATO/Europe but be required to only use them when allowed? Why would we risk losing the billions of investments if the country left NATO like France did?
Yeah? And what?
We’ll we’re rapidly coming to the point the US is just going to pack up and leave. There are countries that will allow bases in, it doesn’t have to be yours.
We can just dissolve NATO and you can pay for your own military and nuclear deterrent.
hmtk1976 on
What about shared bases like Diego Garcia?
EngineNo5 on
Are Japan and South Korea paying the USA for their troops stations in their respective countries?
Darkone539 on
This has always been the case, and is the case with all American bases abroad if I recall?
snakeoildriller on
It’d be a bit worrying if we gave permission for the new Chinese super-embassy but refused permission for new US bases.
kawag on
In theory.
In practice, they could do it anyway and the UK isn’t going to close any of their bases. They can even [murder British civilians and flee to the US](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Harry_Dunn) to escape justice, and we won’t do anything about it.
That’s the key thing about where we are today. If you expecting rules and laws to save us, you haven’t been paying enough attention.
> “I don’t need international law”
> – Emperor of the United States
Ham_I_right on
Why aren’t those freeloader Americans paying taxes for their bases all over? Did they even say thanks?
BahutF1 on
Pretty sure that’s something the Pentagon take very seriously.
Maddog_Jets on
How about the toxic waste they leave behind after they close a base to leave it to the host nation to clean up and deal with the consequences?
Canada will be dealing with this for generations to come.
This is from 2018 and perhaps helps explain why the USA has closed bases in Greenland?
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A timely reminder of our actual leverage over the US
Nothing out of ordinary or new. British and American forces are completely synchronized. All the business on that front, and it won’t change in the future.
RAF is gearing up Eurofighters at Cyprus Akrotiri base for an immanent attack on Iran as we are speaking.
I mean.. yeah? Always has been so far as I know.
Which is one of the big points we’re making in Greenland. Why would we risk building bases that protect both the US and NATO/Europe but be required to only use them when allowed? Why would we risk losing the billions of investments if the country left NATO like France did?
Yeah? And what?
We’ll we’re rapidly coming to the point the US is just going to pack up and leave. There are countries that will allow bases in, it doesn’t have to be yours.
We can just dissolve NATO and you can pay for your own military and nuclear deterrent.
What about shared bases like Diego Garcia?
Are Japan and South Korea paying the USA for their troops stations in their respective countries?
This has always been the case, and is the case with all American bases abroad if I recall?
It’d be a bit worrying if we gave permission for the new Chinese super-embassy but refused permission for new US bases.
In theory.
In practice, they could do it anyway and the UK isn’t going to close any of their bases. They can even [murder British civilians and flee to the US](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Harry_Dunn) to escape justice, and we won’t do anything about it.
That’s the key thing about where we are today. If you expecting rules and laws to save us, you haven’t been paying enough attention.
> “I don’t need international law”
> – Emperor of the United States
Why aren’t those freeloader Americans paying taxes for their bases all over? Did they even say thanks?
Pretty sure that’s something the Pentagon take very seriously.
How about the toxic waste they leave behind after they close a base to leave it to the host nation to clean up and deal with the consequences?
Canada will be dealing with this for generations to come.
This is from 2018 and perhaps helps explain why the USA has closed bases in Greenland?
[https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-february-26-2018-1.4551733/melting-ice-reveals-secret-nuclear-u-s-military-base-posing-environmental-risk-1.4551779](https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-february-26-2018-1.4551733/melting-ice-reveals-secret-nuclear-u-s-military-base-posing-environmental-risk-1.4551779)
They don’t need us so they can ship out and the bases can return to use by the RAF.
LOL…nice one
Relax people, it’s all pre-approved because there was no real choice to begin with