Comments by "starventure" (@starventure) on "The US Military is EVERYWHERE" video.

Imagine all the people, living life in peeeeace...oooh oooh ooooooooh...
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@SilverSmrfr Crimea was never important enough to run the risk of starting WW3 over. The Ukraine can pout all it wants but the USA is not going to sacrifice Western Europe and some USA cities for the sake of some Crimea farmers. It sucks, but not everyone is equal in value in life.
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The Russians won WW2 on their own fronts, but it was the Americans who tipped the balance for them in the form of supplying through Murmansk. The UK would never have held out as long as they did without Lend Lease (Though FDR made damn sure they felt the pain of debt as revenge for 1936) and when the USA finally had the legitimate opportunity to join in the war militarily the outcome was more perceptible.
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@salokin3087 The USA aided the UK in WW2, but not without onerous conditions. And rightly so, given the hostility displayed by the UK government towards Americans during the years prior. When they came knocking on the door to plead for military aid, FDR knew it was payback time.
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Other NATO members have the right to establish bases in the USA as part of the agreement, but none do as internally the USA is not exactly a hotspot of threat activity. Germany did profess the interest in setting up a base in Arizona years ago but decided against it as it would have just been an expensive Luftwaffe “resort”. A shame.
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@יוסייייי-ק1צ Very well stated sir.
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@ummkhel You could shovel all the money in the world at some people or their problems, and still never make any headway at all on solving them.
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De Gaulle left NATO because of the bitter feelings left over from the Suez Canal crisis. It had zilch to do with being militarily independent. Ike and Dulles stopped France and the UK from acting like neocolonialist jerks in the middle of Soviet expansionism. The UK saw the writing in the wall and cooperated with the USA while the French threw a hissy fit and went their own way.
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@Simon-md3uv Symbolism, mostly.
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Uh, are you aware of the size and location of Russias submarine fleet? It is the primary projection of power that they have, and is very deadly.
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Would you prefer it be Russian or Chinese instead? That can be arranged. But before you jump off of that cliff, why not go and have a conversation with a citizen of one of the Baltic nations or an Uyghur about the wisdom of it.
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@sketchb0ok484 Corruption in the USA at least gets caught now and then. Russian justice is a joke, ask Navalny if you can.
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@IgorS. Russia has bases in Cuba and Venezuela. China has a base in Panama and the Spratly islands. Keep in mind that prior to 1962 the USA did not have the global military presence it does now; it was limited to the conquered nations of WW2 and the domestic USA. After 1962, bases started to be leased out from other nations with the simple logic of “if they are doing it we have to as well”.
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Funny, you know that when an American travels to Hawaii they think it is Japan because of all the Japanese tourists there.
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