The problem is, we are very likely to see ours blown up in one way or another with no actions taken by us to keep the fight on their side of the pond.
They need to form their own 3%.
See, I find this hard to believe. Switzerland has been able to effectively remain neutral without getting blown up. Why is that?
Yet here we are, around the globe, bombing innocent people going to a wedding or some #### and acting all aurprised when those actions piss off people who end up fighting for ISIS, al Qaeda, or whatever boogieman is next.
Yeah. Because Hitler was famous for saying "After Poland, lets go ahead and stop with what we got."
I think you give them way too much credit to compare them to the Nazi Reich.
What country do we maintain a military presence in by force?
Someone said to me recently...
I'm not interested in digging all of them up. You can either pay attention and see them yourself or you can pretend it never happened and continue to blather your uninformed opinions - makes no difference to me.
Afghanistan, Samoa, Antarctica, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Ascension Island, Bahamas, Bahrain, Belgium, Belize, Botswana, Indian Ocean (Diego Garcia), Central Africa, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Curacao, Cuba, Denmark, Djibouti, Domincan Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Gabon, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Greenland, Guam, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Johnston Atoll, Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Kosovo, Kuwait, Liberia, Libya, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Niger, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Singapore, Somalia, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, UAE, UK, Uruguay, Virgin Islands, and Wake Island.
The US has 587 bases around the world (outside the 50 states), plus a number of lily pad sites, according to the
2015 Pentagon Base Structure Report. 255 Army Bases, 128 Navy Bases, 182 Air Force Bases, and 22 Marine Bases.