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sree251 "I don't really understand the current war", said Dodge-boy DogMan.
"I don't either", said sree215; especially, our military bases there to protect US interests that seem to be all over the goddam planet. What does protecting American interests means? Are those interests within American national territory or inclusive of the whole damn world and soon extending to the moon?
Says swirlie to sree251 and Dodge-boy DogMan... In reference to your quoted paragraph above sree251, the US military has Bases surrounding the Persian Gulf for two reasons...
1) the US interest that is being protected over there is 'Israel' and always has been.
Israel has been the highest recipient of US financial assistance since WWII who are given a whopping 1% of US GDP annually as a free handout.
First and foremost, that is why there is a heavy US military presence in the Gulf Region ...to protect Israel from Iran ..and to protect the other oil-producing Gulf States from Iran as well ... and not to protect mainland USA from Iran.
2) the second reason the US has bases surrounding the Persian Gulf as well as military bases in every other hick-town around the world, is because the US government makes big money off their rent-a-soldier program which is a security offering of perceived "protection" that the United States government SELLS to countries which have no military of their own, yet who remain under constant threat from adversaries who DO have strong military forces.
In the civilian world, the concept of providing "protection services" is called "extortion" ...protection in exchange for big money ...and is a common mafia practice in most large cities around the world, particularly in the USA.
Yes, the US government is a 'mafia' unto itself and it uses the services of the US military and it's Enlisted Military Personnel to make money for the US government. Providing "protection services" is a very lucrative income stream for the US and has been since WWII.
What's totally fake about US military protection however, is that the US military totally failed the Persian Gulf States it was allegedly "protecting" for big money when Iran very quickly and very systematically destroyed every American base within the Persian Gulf within a matter of a week of Trump invading Iran.
The US military proved to the world that not only is the US military incapable of protecting those countries who pay big money to the US for mafia-style "protection", the US military is totally incapable of protecting ITSELF as evidenced by the fact that Iran destroyed all American bases in the Gulf faster than any US General back in Washington could figure out what to do next.
Of interest however, is that the US military is also incapable of protecting mainland USA, just for the record. This was proven to all Americans on September 11, 2001 when Osama Bin Ladin sent half a dozen of his boys over to the USA, who very legally slipped into the USA at a border crossing, then slipped by airport security screeners with metal weapons on their person, then hijacked at least 4 commercial aircraft full of fuel simultaneously and showed the United States of America WHO is actually in charge of the world after the dust settled.
If American citizens think of their US military as being the "world's policeman", that would only show us how arrogant Americans really are at their core.
It wasn't because of Trump that the USA is no longer the "world's policeman" as you seem to think it was in the first place, the US was never the world's policeman in the first place. Osama Bin Ladin proved that to President George W. Bush 25 years ago, which has nothing to do with Trump today.
I do not support the likes of Trump, but it was Trump who destroyed the credibility of the USA on the world stage in only the last 14 months; it was not Trump who destroyed America's self-perception of it being the world's policeman. That damage was done to America long before Trump ever showed his face in American politics, just for the record.
