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specman Dude if you're convinced that all those bases were built out of generosity because the rest of the world is too lazy to defend itself, frankly you've understood nothing about how your country functions. Unsurprisingly, as your modern political class seems to have completely forgotten about that too, and in a couple of weeks has burnt 80+ years of relationship and influence building.
The entire country economy is built upon being the most influential, stable military power that most other countries will want to depend on. Undo that, remove the stability and remove the influence and the whole thing collapses on its own. Public debt alone hasn't imploded purely because the USD is the world's reserve currency, and that was because the US was perceived as stable and "too big to fail". Your entire military capacity goes down the drain too, the moment a default happens.
