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Originally Posted by Rockstar
From what I've read the purpose of domestic base closures and withdrawing troops from other locations like Germany. Is to support ongoing operations in other places in the world without having throw even more money at the military industrial complex. It places an incredible burden on our domestic economy and infrastructure. Believe it or not our expansion into over 170 foreign countries around the world costs a crap-ton of cash to operate and maintain. Try it sometime.
Oh, and I can guarantee you we are not leaving Europe. One of our goals is to upset and check growing German influence and business ties with Russia. Navalny <cough cough>. But for now its a good idea to reduce costs, especially these days I think it's more important than maintaining a large presence in a nation and region that has lived in peace for well over 75 years.
Anyway its also my opinion by placing the plan to reduce troop deployment on hold for review by the Biden administration. Is political speak for, its still going to happen but it will now be known as the 'Biden Plan'.
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I agree that you are overstretched and that the financial costs must be immense. But not every regiuonbal presenc eof yours is as relevant as any other. You have many bases scattered aorudn that are pratcially indefendable. Your most important and globally supporting bases to me are Okinawa and Germany. These two probabyl before any other. It makes no sense to me that if you want to save costs you close your two most relevant and important stations, while leaving a hundred others far less relevant bases open. It makes no sense. If one needs to control costs, one keeps the valuable and importent, relevant assets, and dumps the irrelevant, unimportant ones. You keep what keeps your strong, and get rid of what weakens you.
Maybe we disagree on the relevance of Korean bases, Okinawa, Germany, compared to others. Okay. But this is how I see it and apparently major parts fo your generals see it like as well. I have great sympathy for Eisenhowers warning of the industrial-military complex. But not here. I think that warning is far more relevant for the internal national US system of distributing/scattering defence production and keeping impractical defence projects alive in US federal states for anything but military reasons, but for reasons of political career planning, jobs, and so forth. Streamlining things in
that swamp to focus on real necessities and cutting off what militarily is not needed, not paying attention to politicians re-election interests and all that - THAT is where you can save the real big money, I think.