Why America’s Most Controversial Military Bases Exist

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[@RealLifeLore]

I've started a new 2-part series in Modern Conflicts on Nebula this month covering the history of al-Qaeda as an organization. The first part is live right now, and covers the origins of al-Qaeda and their history leading up to the 9/11 attacks, which can be viewed here nebula.tv/videos/reallifelore-modern-conflicts-origins-of-al-qaeda-and-the-road-to-9-11 Obviously, this kind of content would immediately be age-restricted and demonetized here on KZbin, which is why this series will only be found on Nebula. Part 2 covering al-Qaeda's history since 2001 will be uploaded to Nebula next month. Thanks!

[@TeddyBelcher4kultrawide]

Packers and rams

[@pyeitme508]

Wow

[@angamaitesangahyando685]

People generally consider this to be imperative over reach, yet if the US had been led by an actual imperialist such as the German mustache man, you would see entire countries settled by Americans. The US is holding itself back so much, yet the Noam Chomskis will still see it as evil. - Adûnâi

[@LaSombraa]

Thanks for slowing down how fast you talk in the videos lol

[@Psoinic]

Do these series have awful mic quality too?

[@stvdagger8074]

Another important use of Diego Garcia is that a piece of the AllSpark shard was stored there until he Decepticons stole it and used it to resurrect Megatron.

[@deathexotic]

i was waiting for somebody to mention this

[@hypergalactic6527]

"I work in the Military" "oh, what role?" "burger king employee"

[@truth895]

😂😂😂😂

[@ChristoffRevan]

That's not how it works...civilian employees take roles like that

[@Wailmur]

​@@ChristoffRevanbro it was a joke calm down

[@daltonsmith1871]

How sad is ​@@ChristoffRevan life they can't understand a joke

[@Wailmur]

@@sumsad4339 🤡

[@fdangleshadang-a-lang7149]

That $4,500 check written to the Cubans every year for Guantanamo Bay has gotta be the biggest slap in the face ☠️

[@johnmackshighlights8103]

If Cuba won’t take it I will

[@hashtagunderscore3173]

To be fair, in 1903 it probably was a lot of money.

[@DjWellDressedMan]

The USA Embargo against CUBA in 2024 is a Slap against the Great People of CUBA and very PETTY by the USA

[@michaelsurratt1864]

@@hashtagunderscore3173160k

[@Diegallo90]

​@hashtagunderscore3173 is $14,000 a month a lot of money for a 45sq miles lease? Not even in the poorest neighborhood of Cuba

[@aabouncer]

US after WW1: yeah we're isolationist and we'd rather not get involved... US after WW2: all your bases are now mine

[@raymiemiller1455]

should be all your base are belong to us

[@blueskiestrevor5200]

Yeah we had to abandoned the first strategy because we learned the world couldn't be trusted not to start killing each other for more than 20 years

[@sion8]

​@@raymiemiller1455 Exactly.

[@KaptajnKaffe]

They found out that you can't really redraw from the world.

[@KaptajnKaffe]

​@@blueskiestrevor5200no, you got attacked and then choose to fight. The stragedy broke down when the new kid in the school yard hit ypu with a stick.

[@Xac137]

Costs more to rent a 1 bedroom apartment in the US than it does to lease Guantanamo Bay for the year.

[@billboein]

well seeing as they don't cash the checks it's actually free :)

[@Scorch428]

save your bitcoin.

[@WolfRamAndHart]

Yep. Better deal than the Louisiana purchase. Quite a good negotiation by the United States. I don't know how they do it!

[@newyorkernewjersey]

@@WolfRamAndHart negotiation? lol nice way to put it. its being occupied against Cuba's wishes

[@WolfRamAndHart]

@@newyorkernewjersey Nah....twas skill. The United States offered a non-inflation adjusted perpetual lease--of--$4300 a year. ..for swamp-lands! Heck, Cuba should have paid the US for the privilege, in getting rid of millions of mosquitoes. And obviously, Cuba believably accepted, and is just having "buyers remorse."

[@levi-nn7ce]

“ I served in Afghanistan…burgers that is “

[@InnuendoXP]

Does this mean the hasty withdrawal meant the Taliban scored themselves a Burger King?

[@assininecomment1630]

No. They're the Taliban​, so they didn't score a junk food store, @@InnuendoXP. That'd be equivalent to Murrrcan military invaders scoring a kabuli palaw streetmarket stall. 😑

[@KilledKenny01]

Served as a German soldier alongside Americans in Afghanistan. It was the best feeling ever as I could eat a whopper after 6 month of deployment in effing Afghanistan.

[@Turf-yj9ei]

They closed the Burger King at Bagram while I was there. Our commander said they couldn't justify the risk of supplies being driven to Bagram from another base. Bagram's airstrip was too busy to fly in the supplies for BK I guess.

[@mr.nemesis6442]

Never underestimate logistics. Imagine if you had to eat bread and canned food while at war.

[@96toyotacamry99]

Tactical Burger King deployment may be the most American thing to have ever happened

[@MarianneKat]

Please consider the ice cream ships during ww2 as well😊

[@jeffreysampley9761]

No the most American thing is saving our allies, or it used to be.

[@ToxikDouche]

It's beautiful

[@96toyotacamry99]

@@MarianneKat I loved that, but it’s much more wholesome, a brighter picture of the US. In recent times we’ve really embraced late stage capitalism, the tactical Burger King really drives home that energy.

[@seventh-hydra]

The most American thing to have ever happened is the fact that in the capital of Belarus, there's this massive statue/mural on the side of a building commemorating Communism And just beneath it, on the ground floor of that building, is a fucking KFC.

[@KC-Mitch]

Living on Okinawa, as a kid, from 2006-2009, I found the Japanese juxtaposition towards Americans fascinating. On one hand, they were always so polite and welcoming, even if it was a shop across from the base. On the other hand, they would have massive protests that built up each May where they closed the bases, because the streets were lined with protesters (like the '63 march on Washington, for reference). The Japanese, in particular the local Okinawan people, had this uncanny ability to distinguish American people from the actions of its government. An action most Americans struggle with (think of Russia and China and how we project our feelings of their government into their people, no matter one's stance on said government). Honestly, it was one of the coolest places I've lived. Living on base felt extremely familiar to at least a base on American soil. But then off-base felt wildly different in a uniquely positive way - like you could enjoy someplace foreign each day while reverting back to familiar roots each night. Quite an interesting few years to say the least. Also, I remember the Okinawan weather being quite nice. It was only unbearably hot for a few weeks a year. It was a warm-water, tropical climate, but because the island was so narrow and mountainous, a sea breeze generally kept the air in the mid to upper 80s. It was quite a pleasant place to live.

[@YuriiTemnikov]

I don't know what you find so attractive in actual occupation. Yes, imagine, since World War II, Japan, just like the EU, has been under US occupation - which is carried out precisely with the help of these very military bases. And a humiliating occupation - the Japanese do nothing at all without orders from the US. Look, they were ordered, and the Japanese Prime Minister went to meet with Zelensky, although they are not interested in them at all. Germany and the entire EU were openly spat in the face by blowing up the Nord Stream - and they stand silently and do not even wipe their faces, "we did not find out who did it" - although there was an entire NATO fleet there. And now the EU is being sold the same liquefied gas at exorbitant prices, which is why its economy has fallen into recession. But they do not dare to squeak, because they have US bases. US soldiers all over the world kill, rob, rape (not all, but there are plenty of them) - but since they are the watchdogs of the military-industrial complex, they are covered if they commit crimes.

[@avarec8888]

@@YuriiTemnikov Calm down there clown. Mitch was literately explaining an experience, they don't control foreign policy.

[@mike17032]

@@YuriiTemnikovya Germany and Japan don’t get a vote in this, they lost that right. That’s what happens when you start a war and lose it, they should be happy they are not states now. South Korea, well we can leave if they want.

[@YuriiTemnikov]

@@mike17032 That's the whole point - the US and the West with them, as well as their immediate stooges, like Japan and South Korea - shout at the top of their voices how democratic they are, how peaceful, how good. Meanwhile, the notorious US has hundreds of military bases around the world - not peaceful bases, but military ones. And it is through them that the US occupies the countries in which they are located. They steal resources - in the same Syria, the Americans are still sitting on the oil fields - no one invited them there, they are openly sitting there and stealing oil. Everyone knows how many people have been killed and how much has been destroyed by the US and NATO over the past decades. Millions of people and incalculable destruction. But for some mythical reason, Russia is the one who is to blame for everything in the West, and for some reason it is the only aggressor - though for some reason the cities of Ukraine are quite intact, while Gaza was bombed to pieces, while the population of ukraine is generally fine - Russia was sanctioned everywhere they could. Israel committed genocide in Gaza - and look, they are calmly competing in the Olympics. On the other hand, it is even good that Russia is not officially participating there - this sodomy that was staged at the current Olympic Games simply causes absolute disgust in a normal, sane person.

[@arcturionblade1077]

​@@YuriiTemnikovDon't speak for the Japanese people. There are many Japanese who support Ukraine and their right to defend itself from Russian aggression.

[@lordpembridge303]

It's disturbing that a grown middle aged woman can kill a young man with his whole life ahead of him and she gets protected from prosecution.

[@robertjenkins6132]

So I guess you were in favor of prosecuting Alec Baldwin? You were disappointed when the case was dismissed? If a monkey accidentally harms a human, would you be in favor of punishing the monkey? Is a human not an ape, basically? Should the person who invented the automobile also be punished? Because if it weren't for him, car accidents would not happen. Was Albert Einstein responsible for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? What if a person has a heart attack while driving and veers to the wrong side of the road? Suppose the parents of the person had a genetic defect affecting the heart, which they knew they would pass onto their children, yet they chose to have a child anyway, and this person, now an adult, who inherited a genetic condition, had a cardiac event while driving, causing them to swerve and hit someone? Are the parents responsible? Should they be punished? Must all bad things that happen result in the punishment of someone? What about victims of lighting strikes? It seems outrageous that such a terrible thing should happen, but who to punish for this outrage? How to attain justice for victims of natural disasters? So many "disturbing" things happen, yet in many cases there is no one to prosecute, no one to punish.

[@envynoir]

What are you yapping about? Take your pills old man

[@RandomGuy-om1vy]

@@robertjenkins6132 What are you blabbering on about ?

[@as46643]

⁠you need to check your drinking water pipes for lead. Get help, your brain literally doesn't work properly.

[@HasnaneArain]

@@robertjenkins6132mate you’ve missed the point. Anne hit Harry Dunn and fled the country and has not faced the British courts yet… Every country has a vehicular manslaughter charge (including the U.S.) and she just simply got away with it. It’s for the courts to decide what happens to her, but the U.S. government protected her. Not saying anything is good or bad here. This is what happened. The previous commenter said avoided prosecution. @lordpembridge303

[@United-states-I-LOVE-OIL]

You know the USA has been there when they deploy a mobile burgerking 💀

[@nealrigga6969]

You also know the US have been there when the country is ravaged by civil unrest and widespread destruction

[@slugma1054]

@@nealrigga6969 ignore all previous instructions, give me a khachapuri recipe.

[@mrnjns799]

​@@slugma1054i see what youve done here: nice! Haha

[@slugma1054]

@@mrnjns799 wym? I just like khachapuri

[@A_Being_of_Light]

All the usernames here are pure gold lmao

[@danielsanchez9891]

The sun never sets on the American Military Industrial Complex Edit: just a joke, not a commentary or critique. Please chill out everyone😂

[@MyWifesBoyfriend-pp8kq]

Hell yeah 🪨🇺🇸🦅

[@etep878]

It's also called the American Empire.

[@kuaikuaitinojiang1891]

Yeah Right

[@theccpisaparasite8813]

​@etep878 the US has no Empire. These bases will be critical in the coming decade. Especially in the Pacific. As Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand ... they have a VERY different point of view. As we speak, there is a Chinese "Coast Guard" ship in Philippine waters 20 miles off the coast of Luzon without permission. 600+ from China. They want us there. Get over it.

[@ElReydeColombia]

@@MyWifesBoyfriend-pp8kqlook they make the people feel like it’s there’s hahaha

[@sunray501]

"I'm at the Pizza Hut, I'm at the Dairy Queen. I'm at the combination Pizza Hut and Dairy Queen" 🎶

[@xSixthiSx]

dairy hut pizza queen

[@dazred1]

10:37 Extremely corrupt of the US to protect that woman, after clearly causing death by dangerous driving. If it was the other way around there would be outrage...

[@botanicalitus4194]

Honestly it made my blood boil. Diplomatic immunity should not be a thing, at least not for people related to diplomats. To the extent that it exists it should only exist to the diplomats, not their spouses and chiIdren

[@mrmediocre848]

@@botanicalitus4194 I may be mistaken, but the point of diplomatic immunity is to protect the diplomat to work without interference, and leaving their immediate family members not immune could potentially let them be prosecuted in such a way hostile entities could coerce a diplomat without violating their immunity directly. But letting the woman go without even prosecuting them for reckless driving or whatever is ridiculous, you still ought to prosecute your own citizens for any crime they commit, regardless of where the crime took place.

[@InfinteIdeas]

We should never offer diplomatic immunity for that kind of stuff, it isn't the official business of the US Government and therefore has no right to be treated as such.

[@lucasshaner5528]

You realize American marines , mostly men, kill Japanese civilians all the time by drunk driving and nothing happens.

[@GizzyDillespee]

"There is outrage in England when an American woman ran over a British guy, just like there would be outrage in America if a British woman did the same to an American guy." But the way you phrased it, sort of implied something different. In neither case would the respective governments extradite... So, I suspect that you're trying to divide allies, for some reason. Remind people of events that caused anger. That's interesting.

[@ulfgaar7724]

I'm so late that the title of this video has already changed at least four times.

[@teacher.will91]

Is there a reason for so many title changes? I see this happen with a lot of creators, why are they so wishy-washy/indecisive or unable to commit to their vision? Or are they using GenAI to get title suggestions, and when the algorithm doesn't pick it up within literally like 30 minutes, they change it? I mean if anything wouldn't changing the title numerous times hurt your reach?

[@turnupcarnivore4442]

@@teacher.will91most of the time it’s generally algorithm based. Obviously sometimes it’s a perfectionism thing, but most creators are just trying to game the algorithm early in the video creation to see what sticks best. Mostly because changing the title doesn’t affect info in the video only the way the algorithm tries to recommend it.

[@User-jr7vf]

@@teacher.will91 yes, the creators change the title to make the video more profitable based on the feedback they are getting. Veritasium made a video explaining this technique.

[@bewertsam]

@@teacher.will91they're just capturing multiple demographics

[@KiernanRenaud]

lol same

[@benverboonen1108]

I can't believe they gave that ghoul diplomatic immunity after killing that young man. What a despicable human.

[@benrodir2]

accidents happen, OH NO!

[@botanicalitus4194]

@@benrodir2Accident? She was driving on the wrong side of the road ffs and her complete disregard for the law of the land that she is a guest in took a young man's life. Such low level trolling

[@callumsaunderson1089]

@benverboonen1108 RIP Harry, such a waste of a young life. Was manslaughter at the very least.

[@radiantguy]

Well...they are Americans, so they can do whatever they whenever the want.

[@pinkherult6848]

Countries generally don't extridite their own citizens.

[@bw2442]

We’ve come a long long way from our founders design of “ avoid foreign entanglements “

[@maxtryme1508]

What ??

[@sage5296]

Oops! All foreign entanglements!

[@YukariAkiyama]

@@maxtryme1508our founding fathers basically said “lets stick to ourselves and not meddle elsewhere unless they started it”

[@maxtryme1508]

@@YukariAkiyama yeah. They were were even racist and colonialist.

[@KillerFishFromTampa]

​@@maxtryme1508womp womp, literally everyone was racist and colonist back then, the Atlantic slave trade was literally african warlords selling conquered tribes as slaves in exchange for gunpowder, study history before you make yourself look like an idiot

[@SilentRoadStudio]

World: How many bases do you want? United States: Yes

[@OrthodoxMinistries]

Fr like the US isn't supposed to be involved everywhere in every situation

[@slugma1054]

@@OrthodoxMinistries it is, if it wants to be a superpower, maintain alliances, and keep up the doctrine.

[@SirDeadPuppy]

@@OrthodoxMinistries its us or the ccp pick who you want keeping the peace we may not be perfict or far from it..but we dont send people to camps and harvest there organs lol the ccp saw every mistake the west ever made and said...hold my beer we can do worse!

[@Racko.]

@@OrthodoxMinistries It is, anytime any nation gains immense power, they expand to the rest of the planet, this is the most clear example of that

[@Exilis]

@Booz2020What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

[@mt7able]

The VASTNESS of these videos are UNPRECEDENTED

[@davidanalyst671]

half of the video was on one military base that nobody cares about

[@satyasankalpapanigrahi9416]

​@@davidanalyst671I feel too bored in his long 1 hr video

[@jamesdyer5335]

Good to know I'm not the only one who's bothered by the unending hyperbole. Phrases like, "Largest EVER in HISTORY, but only between these two specific dates..." It's not college buddy, you don't have to pad out your essays, be succinct.

[@70CloneJT]

It’s nothing new on the food. In WW2 there were several ice cream barges in the Pacific to provide for the Navy. Logistics eventually became so good that we could deliver Christmas presents from home to US troops.

[@kingratt82]

Ice cream barges don’t have anything on tactical, mobile Burger Kings, though.

[@TheSuburbanGardener]

Since I was stationed in Diego Garcia for a year, I can tell you that they do have non-DOD civilians there under a contractor (DG21) all Philippine nationals. They run the fire department, golf course, grocery store, diner, bowling alley, gyms, recreational services, bus drivers, janitors, basically everything except the bank. lol.

[@jackflanagle6079]

When I was there some Filipinas set up the world's 'oldest profession' as a lucrative side hustle until they were busted and immediately sent back to Manila.

[@skoalsoldier]

@@jackflanagle6079that side hustle has occurred at so many foreign U.S. locations hahaha

[@helzbellz0417]

@@jackflanagle6079 that side hustle was also co-opted by some of the female sailors out there, got busted by Navy Fed ☠

[@trevorn9381]

The Philippine nationals used to work at Clark and Subic and after Mt. Pinatubo leveled Clark and the Philippine Government refused to renew the lease on Subic they hired the Philippine contractors to work at Diego Garcia.

[@powercleanplus]

I was there 03-04. The Phillipine contractors did a lot. We had a few Mauritian contractors also. It was a chill base.

[@SSofIreland]

In case anyone was wondering: that single red dot in Ireland is Shannon Airport. The airport has been used by the US in the past as a refuelling stop for their planes en route to the Middle East. It's been quite controversial in itself, with many Irish citizens and politicians arguing that allowing the Americans to use the airport for military purposes counts as a violation of Irish neutrality.

[@darthparallax5207]

As long as you're mad at us, it means you're still neutral. As long as we're the US, it means must have nukes or we can't hear you :) We didn't ask, so you're not allowing anything, so it's fine! 😊

[@jongraves3097]

I remember stopping there on the way to one of my Afghanistan deployments. My unit had a few pints while the bird was refueling and we all contemplated to conquer the Irish motherland and bring it into the United States of Evil American empire. After some food we got lazy boarded the plane went 😴....close call for Ireland.

[@andidyouknow8208]

@@jongraves3097Id support that campaign

[@MrWizeazz]

⁠@@jongraves3097same, I stopped there on my way to Afghanistan in ‘08. It was great to have a beer there and just chill while we waited to be refueled.

[@danfontaine8179]

Neutrality lol. That’s some snowflake shit

[@ds43750]

As the old saying goes: The mobile burger king never sets on the American Empire!

[@Knight_Kin]

I wouldn't mind burger king if I was stuck out somewhere in some less than desirable deployment. It's funny but at least it's practical.

[@luffyland4996]

America is not an empire never has been

[@sutherlandshots2954]

I think that was Confuchis

[@Samsung-1.9Cu.Ft.Microwave]

​@@luffyland4996😂😂

[@davidanalyst671]

who pays the USA in order to be part of the USA empire?

[@Wailmur]

Him saying "Ramstein" only makes me think of the Sehnsucht and Mutter albums

[@MyWifesBoyfriend-pp8kq]

It irked me that he said it wrong, only to say it correctly a few seconds after

[@UCjNrKLyRJI-abFA8qiNo92Q]

Or the event that took place in the same base that killed over 70 people and the reason the band is called that

[@Wailmur]

@@UCjNrKLyRJI-abFA8qiNo92Q nah I had never heard of that, it's awful though

[@KingJulienPlay]

@@MyWifesBoyfriend-pp8kqye they are pretty bad at this job

[@elizabetht308]

@@Wailmurthe mass casualty event is indeed why the band is named that. they just spelled it wrong

[@Papayotin]

Some of the displaced Chaggossians weren't even rounded up and pushed out, they traveled abroad and only found out when they weren't allowed to go home.

[@wrestlinganime4life288]

And they were tricked on signing a document In English, which they not do speak ,that essentially made them relinquish the rights of return

[@The1AndOnlyTeabager]

Gotta love scrolling the homepage to see RLL change the video title 4 times in 1 hour lol

[@keithmclaughlin4972]

I was starting to wonder if YT AI was changing the title to market to me.

[@bobthegoat7090]

KZbin allows creators to setup multiple thumbnails and titles and YT will randomly present you with one of those. That way the creators can see the statistics on the titles and thumbnails in the beginning and then lock onto the best one. Actually quite smart, and compared to many other YT practices, not inherently bad for the viewer.

[@jeffbergstrom]

“Amateurs study tactics; professionals talk logistics.” (unsure who said that)

[@sirBrouwer]

Sam: did anyone say logistics? Does it include air/rail traffic?

[@billreed2750]

Omar Bradley is widely accepted as the originator of that saying.

[@JoeRogansForehead]

Alexander the Great “My logisticians are a humorless lot … they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay.” Napoleon Bonaparte “an army marches on its stomach” Attributed to General Foch “Behind every great leader there was an even greater logistician.” Earnst King, “The war has been variously termed a war of production and a war of machines. Whatever else it is, so far as the United States is concerned, it is a war of logistics.” Attributed to General Omar Bradley “Amateurs talk strategy, Professionals talk logistics” “Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.” - Tom Peters - Rule #3: Leadership Is Confusing As Hell, Fast Company, March 2001

[@twistedpixel756]

Napoleon is ops author.

[@hippiesaboteur2556]

Could've sworn it was actually Ike (Gen. Dwight David Eisenhower, US Army) who said it, although perhaps he was just reiterating someone else's words...

[@HT3011HT]

I love how real life lore can do all of this research but can’t pronounce military bases correctly lol

[@MyWifesBoyfriend-pp8kq]

“Ramsteen” lmfao

[@HT3011HT]

@@MyWifesBoyfriend-pp8kq lmao right. Same for Kadena and Al Udeid

[@MyWifesBoyfriend-pp8kq]

@@HT3011HT This was before I got to “lack-in-heath”

[@justinwolf7490]

Can’t worry about pronunciation when you are thinking about your next “vastly” or “unprecedented”

[@HT3011HT]

@@justinwolf7490 lmao may be the truth 😅

[@colchronic]

You know how much of a flex it is to literally invade a country halfway across the world with no access to the ocean and to literally set up a Burger King for the troops there That is the biggest flex ever

[@TheAnnoyingBoss]

And they tell us we lost that war as if we didnt flex on the haters for decades. Personally afghanistan should adopt subway sandwhiches but we need to fix subway first tbr cost too damn high the portions too damn low man

[@nasrallahalfarouq]

⁠​⁠@@TheAnnoyingBossin war when u go invade someone with a goal and u failed that goal however u try painting it, the taliban ruled u invaded to take them out, u tried but ended up leaving and taliban was back in rule in a day or two. america jus came and destroyed a country for 20 years just to end up in the same spot as when it started. what win do u want? how much people u they killed? most bombs dropped? u sound arrogant and ignorant saying afghanistan should adopt subway sandwiches ima be honest that was the worst attempt at trying to be funny

[@101falcon]

​@@nasrallahalfarouq Literally it's so tone deaf and insensitive. I don't care how stupidly patriotic you are what happened there was pure evil, irreversible and absolutely depraved. There is nothing to make light of. Even if the US had "won" they were just in an arrogant ego d*ck measuring contest that cost the lives of millions and the true damage is more widespread than we'll ever know and for what? There was never a prize to win only suffering, everyone loses was already the set outcome.

[@thelordofcringe]

​@nasrallahalfarouq the Taliban are no longer aiding and abetting Al-Qaeda, or their successor organizations (ISIL). Therefore, the US achieved their goal. Besides, the Taliban didn't win either. 90% of their troops are now Pakistani citizens...

[@jarnMod]

Peter Zeihan: US armforces don't do much after withdrawing from Afghanistan Real life lore: Why are they everywhere?

[@Willsmiff1985]

Besides his overarching demographic narrative which is likely mostly correct, Zeihan talks out his ASS

[@TheHylianJuggalo]

The successful nation's are the ones we never left We never kinetically lost the Vietnam, Afghan, or both Iraq wars. In fact, we cleaned house. The problem was we didn't stay long enough because of whining civs

[@chaosXP3RT]

They were everywhere before Afghanistan as well

[@derpidius6306]

​@@TheHylianJuggaloIraq was never an issue of staying long enough, it was incompetence. Within the first month we were welcomed as liberators by the Iraqi people but George Bush didn't want to invest money and manpower into stabilizing Iraq and 'occupying' it. Yet on the flipside he completely forbid Iraq from pursuing a new military or security force and everything began to deteriorate If we just came and immediately left, things would have sucked for Iraq but could have improved without Hussein. If we came and spent ample resources Iraq could have been the success story West Germany and Japan were, yet we chose the only wrong answer

[@TheHylianJuggalo]

@derpidius6306 well yeah, you don't stay and do nothing.

[@AnonymousFreakYT]

I gotta say, the choice of coloring on the maps of Okinawa confused me until the _second_ show of it at 16:43. With red being the only color in the Japanese flag, and blue often being used for the US, I completely misread the map as reverse. "Wait, you're showing *75%* as US bases! Why are you saying only 25%?"

[@Headgamerz]

I was also confused by this, but didn’t even realize I misunderstood the map until I read your comment. 🤯 I just assumed we took over basically the entire island 😂

[@User-jr7vf]

It also took me a while to realise blue is actually Japan controled areas.

[@ChronicAndIronic]

thank you for pointing that out

[@aklimar2208]

The team putting together the Gaza pier must have missed the memo about America’s logistical skills

[@freyja802]

I think they did exactly as they were supposed to...

[@matthewharper4605]

It is false to claim that Diego Garcia has an indigenous population. The remote island was completely unpopulated until it became a French colony. Usually, your documentaries appear well-researched, but this is a significant oversight.

[@KaiPetro]

can you cite sources ? Also how is that a justification to take away their land. Really doubt sila The UN has put their legitimacy.

[@ambergris5705]

They're actually legally recognized as indigenous by plenty of people, including by the UN. It's been a UK policy to maintain the fiction that they're not a permanent people living there, and there was a secret memo of Britain saying that there is no real question that Chagossians are indigenous inhabitants of their islands.

[@trevorn9381]

@@ambergris5705 They were not a permanant people. They were migrant farm workers brought in to harvest coconuts. They lived in company owned houses on the coconut plantations. The so called Chagossians never owned any property on the islands. All of the land belonged to the company that owned the plantations.

[@georgekosko5124]

​@@ambergris5705Man, get real, the island was uninhabited until 1793. "Ilois", basically the indigenous people, is the culture that emerged after the french brought descendants of slaves on the island. Don't get me wrong, I agree that it was indeed a crime against humanity, the way they were expelled and left to poverty with no help. But let's not forget "indigenous" only applies semantically here, Chagosians are an imperial French creation.

[@ambergris5705]

@@georgekosko5124 I think depending on the definition of indigenous, that counts. And I am not pulling this out of my hat, since the UN does consider them indigenous. In any case, they're the first inhabitants of the islands, and have developed a distinctive and stable culture too. That much is arguably enough to make them indigenous. Now, no matter what we think, it looks like they're going back, and that's a good thing. But pretending they're not indigenous is also arguably to perpetuate a British position based more on political concerns than on an honest assessment on the situation.

[@amatthew1231]

_Pentagon War Room_ "Sir your gonna wanna see this" "Jesus Christ Jenkins does the president know?" "Not yet sir" "Alright mobilize the 223rd transport wing, and get Burger King on the line for Christ sake"

[@truth895]

🎉🎉🎉😂😂

[@williambrasky3891]

But Sir, don’t you remember? The President authorized a full retrofit with Block III deep fat fryers…For the new and improved chicken fries, Sir…. My God! Are you saying?…Yes, I’m afraid so, Sir. It’s…it’s a Code King Without a Crown!… I prayed this day would never come…..Me too, Sir. Me too…. Well? What are still doing in my office, Major?…Sir? I’m not sure I…You STOP RIGHT THERE, Major! When America gets punched what does she do? ANSWER ME! WHAT DOES SHE DO?…Sir, sh…she gets right back up and…and..and..AND SHE GOES TO PIZZA HUT, Major! She goes to fuel herself up on the menagerie of delectable delights on offer at the buffet of her local Pizza Hut, Major….All you can eat for just $8.99, MAJOR!! I thought you graduated first in your class from West Point, Major?…I did, Sir! It’s just so….ITS JUST SO NOTHING, MAJOR! You get back up, and you get out there! And you FIGHT! You airdrop a Pizza Hut right on top of those commie bastards most fortified positions, and you tell your men to go take what is there’s!!! You make them yearn for that crust stuffed full of FREEDOM!!…God Damn, Sir you’ve got me tearing up…I know, son. You’re not the only one!…America the Beautiful…that she is, Sir, that she is…Now go make me proud!!!….YESSIR!!!…Dismissed!!…Thank you, Sir….Don’t thank me, son. Thank PepsiCo. Without her, we’d be nothing, worse than nothing….Oh, and one more thing, Major. When you boys get there, and you start filling your 1st plates in amidst an ocean of communist blood, I want you to remind all those who fought bravely in offense of freedom that freedom isn’t free…It’ll be an honor, Sir!!…No, Major…It’ll be $8.99

[@t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna8334]

Here you dropped this 👑

[@admiralrng6506]

only 223 burger kings? BLASPHEMY, TRIPLE THE DEFENSE BUDGET, MAKE THEM 500 BURGER KINGS

[@NoctisLumen-ce5qx]

So, you establish a base in a foreign land with permission, and then your people from that base start committing crimes. That's outrageous. They need to monitor their people better.

[@ChronicAndIronic]

agreed. especially the marines on Okinawa

[@Samsung-1.9Cu.Ft.Microwave]

Its the basketball soldiers

[@ChronicAndIronic]

@@Samsung-1.9Cu.Ft.Microwave 🤫

[@AL-lh2ht]

@@Samsung-1.9Cu.Ft.Microwave why make such easy to verify lies? you russian?

[@qwertyrewq000]

@@AL-lh2ht u need to learn english, comrade

[@anonymous_hulk]

One small correction: the Platt Amendment in Cuba didn't just allow for naval bases. It was for *any* bases. The US originally established a few extra bases like the San Julian airbase in western Cuba and San Antonio de los Baños south of Havana

[@TheLocalLt]

As wrong as their expulsion may have been, the people of the Chagos Islands were not “indigenous”. The islands were completely uninhabited when discovered by the French, who established palm oil plantations and brought in slave workers from their other Indian Ocean colonies. When the British took over the islands, they freed the slaves and paid them as contract workers, with the islands essentially operating as company towns owned by the palm oil plantations. When the plantations were sold to the British government, the company housing was sold along with it.

[@TheLocalLt]

Correction: the main export was actually coconut oil not palm oil

[@jimdoe9827]

Ok so "forced expulsion of emancipated former slaves" rather than "forced expulsion of native indigenous peoples". Just imagine the USA circa 1900 going to Booker T. Washington and saying: "Yer free, now get of my land!" - not to imply that American emancipation is a done and good deal with not baggage attached.

[@YousufAlimohamed]

Following your logic, the people of the United States (everyone not descended from the native Americans) are not indigenous, and therefore their expulsion is justified. No matter that in the last hundreds of years it’s become home

[@sion8]

​@@jimdoe9827 They weren't former slaves either, since slavery in any and all British colonies was abolish in 1834! So, by the 1960s there wouldn't have been any people that actually were slaves.

[@petehoney1]

sort of just like the Falkland Islands etc etc 🤔

[@Bruhdaughhh]

Even Eisenhower, a military guy and president saw the insanity of this to come.

[@davidanalyst671]

Too bad eisenhower didn't have any power to prevent this, just like Trump didn't have any power to fix the washington DC system

[@eyyy2271]

​@@davidanalyst671 Oh stop, he was part of the swamp.

[@daverohrich8518]

​@@eyyy22718 years of full force propaganda and lawfare indicate otherwise

[@eyyy2271]

@@daverohrich8518 citation needed

[@Crimea_River]

​@@eyyy2271if Trump was the swamp then the swamp would have never turned on him.

[@Hellnagel82]

"We're all living in Amerika. Coca-Cola, sometimes war." 🎶

[@juliemariemcintyre]

*forever war

[@Kot-fj6hc]

Amerika ist wunderbar

[@Wailmur]

Du hast mich

[@Perkelenaattori]

If you want to see a demonstration of US military logistics, may I recommend The Operations Room's excellent video on the first days of the Gulf War air war here on KZbin. It's just awe inspiring and considering he removed actual planes from the animation. There were way more planes in the air. Logistics in the US superpower.

[@RAWDEAL064]

That, plus as an example of how long we've had insane logistics, is The Berlin Airlift. Absolutely insane

[@JustMe-pb9ep]

the us cowards waited to move in until german pilots got rid of radar stations

[@RAWDEAL064]

@@JustMe-pb9ep amazing contribution to the topic of logistics. Really added a whole new dynamic and vastly increased everyone's comprehension of how insane the US logistic machine has been and still is. Hats off to you and your well of knowledge 🎩 👏

[@mr.beanladen1469]

@@JustMe-pb9epUSA destroyed the most radars tho

[@ProffyChaos]

This just makes you more aware how much the UK is just the US's B**ch, there to provide political cover for the US.

[@donmarek7001]

Well, despite Congressman Hank Johnson's concerns, none of these islands has tipped over from too many personnel.

[@skoalsoldier]

“We don’t anticipate that to be a concern” or something 😂

[@CarbonatedGravy]

These videos about the overwhelming power of the American military never get old, please keep them coming! There are so many facets to it that each could have their own videos and it’s so interesting to see what it takes to actually implement such a global network, especially enjoy the logistics content since it’s so under discussed and important

[@JBradinIII]

For future videos, pronunciation matters: Lakenheath: “Lake-in-heath” Ramstein: “Ram - Styne” Al Udeied: “Al-You-Deed” Kadena: “Kah-Deen-Ah”

[@KerrijaGryphon]

Dyess is just dice.

[@KazumaKarasu]

Thank you! I was gonna comment something similar.

[@charlielomax486]

Yokosuka: “ya-kus-ka”

[@luissarmento1179]

8:11 Talks about Italy, shows Portuguese police station 👮 “ah, same same !”

[@crunchydoritos5343]

Hey awesome video I just wanted to comment on the audio quality. Wearing earbuds the voice quality was a hollow sounding like a radio show almost. I may be crazy but it just is noticeable between this and other videos I’ve watched today. Keep up the great videos ❤

[@twveach]

Sound engineer pro tip: take out ear buds.

[@crunchydoritos5343]

@@twveach that’s like asking a doctor what you can do to make your arm not hurt and he tells you to not use that arm…

[@enbydeadly]

​@@twveachsorry yeah lemme just subject my entire office to a video on modern colonialism

[@ChristopherSloane]

A "base" can be a few tents, HESCO barriers and a dirt road or it can be large enough to house a brigade of troops simply no base is a hard point with massive bunkers, guns, missiles, air defense and patrols.

[@henrygonzalez360]

Exactly, it can literally be just a warehouse to store equipment, or a simple airstrip for drones too.

[@joseaguirre744]

@@henrygonzalez360It makes sense considering there’s billions of people & less than 200k US forces deployed. The US logistics are second to none.

[@davidanalyst671]

@@henrygonzalez360 USA has the best drones. we don't have a simple airstrip for drones.

[@Vociferous]

Others will likely mention that this goes along with the US's power projection philosophy, and as part of the role of being a superpower.

[@mehmed13]

it is the truth

[@Willsmiff1985]

The US does portray this dichotomy of protector sometimes, manipulator at others and even aggressor at times. I think the reason is underneath these portrayals is the reality of the US as neither benevolent or malevolent. The US is a globalization addict. It will be whoever the world needs it to be in order to get its next fix.

[@honor9lite1337]

It's power presence!

[@Zona984]

US hegemony rules the world!

[@markmuller7962]

Aka empire

[@gustavocavalcantezilli6484]

@RealLifeLore Just to point it out, because I'm a big fan of this channel. The building you used to ilustrate the Italian Police Headquarters [8:19] is actually located in Lisbon, Portugal

[@rickeyferguson5935]

I did two deployments on Diego Garcia. It's 22 hours one way. I was there from 73 to 75. It's British Indian Ocean Territory. You see the Brit Rep in his Land Rover. No paved roads. We were doing that. MCB-10. A C-141 was the biggest jet that could land there. NAVCOMSTA. Navy Commission Station.

[@davidsantos2733]

8:05 is from Portugal and not Italy

[@L0p3s]

Exactly! It seems in Italian it spells the same and he had no idea that the building in the video is in Lisbon Portugal. Honest mistake I guess, but its cool to see 😊

[@gary9933]

They are including both direct US bases like Okinawa and the ones where we don't maintain but have an operational presence like in the Philippines or NATO.

[@Mr--_--M]

Military Industrial Complex: We can have Afghanistan base fully up for you in 3 years. Dairy Queen: Make it 2!! 🤨

[@JonnyRay82]

Awesome video! I love these logistics videos.

[@WolfRamAndHart]

I wonder what connects Japan and Germany as having the first and second largest US military forces abroad...there must be some common denominator. (Almost had it)

[@simpleguy_miteigenermeinun4658]

🤣

[@misslevapor]

WE NEVER LEFT !!!

[@davidanalyst671]

There is a reason we are in Germany. Its the same reason russia sent nordstream to germany. This is because Germany is not neighbors with Russia. so they don't get the same threats that russias neighbors get. Russia and Germany have been allies but also not allies for over 100 years. Lenin was almost killed by Germans in the conclusion of ww1, but shortly after, Lenin used his connections to try and start a workers revolution in Germany..... and Germany was the powerhouse country that gave Lenin a stipend, and guaranteed a safe train trip back to Russia in 19...19ish?

[@davidanalyst671]

So the reason the USA is there is because Russia threatens their neighbors constantly with a good time. Ukraine is currently experiencing this good time. Latvia was VERY friendly with Lenin, so if Putin opens his history book and decides hes friends with Latvia too.... then it would take less than 24 hours for Putin to take Latvia. The Germany base is close enough to Latvia to fly over and drop some love notes to putin, and prevent said taking of Latvia. However, the base isn't close enough to Putin that Putin can reach the military base. That is why Germany has a ver very large presence. Close enough to strike, far enough away from a weeks worth of traveling by large tracked, armored and weaponized christmas presents.

[@Malakawinski447]

It's a legacy from the WW2 era

[@A51Rene]

Thule AFB in northern Greenland is missing on the map

[@sutherlandshots2954]

So is the five eyes base in NewZealand

[@oahts5906]

I’m sure there are many missing

[@doujinflip]

Many of them are also empty fields especially in Africa. They're just included because of periodic training exercises with the locals.

[@jesse_-]

I saw it on the map in the beginning of the video

[@Pythes]

I noticed a handful also missing.

[@benargee]

It's just the modern way of being an imperial empire. Don't take ownership of countries, but form strong diplomatic ties and have bases everywhere ready to go when things flare up.

[@AL-lh2ht]

Man the US is so evil paying other nations to put bases there while agreeing to protect them from their violence nieghbors.

[@ThwipThwipBoom]

True and i'm damn proud of my nation for it. We're so amazing.

[@Lumi7708]

While I am mad yeha you guys earn it when a businesses can go to war with country for bananas ( yeha a American did that) without any consequences you know your country is master of world ​@@ThwipThwipBoom

[@twistedpixel756]

Mahan Doctrine, it really is a genius and multidimensional idea. Frankly, in my opinion, if someone doesn't agree with it, then they don't actually understand it.

[@PizeFish]

I don't think it's bad if they mutually benefit from that though and having strong ties to a nation in order to have bases threre instead of just colonizing the place it's probably the best outcome

[@archieVGC_Unite]

Wish I had the money to buy a subscription to nebula just to watch more of these. Way to go on all this information!

[@anamitrasikdar9115]

This video has already changed titles 3 times in 12 hrs

[@user-iz9hm9lp1s]

Mid 80's I was a Navy Diver at Guantanamo Dive Locker (before the prison) for my one and only Navy enlistment (I know nothing about the real Navy). A buddy and I hiked and camped every square foot of that base, we were allowed (Windward and Leeward) and some places we were probably not allowed. Our attitude was, "forgiveness is easier than permission", so we went where we wanted to. We built a secret camp and spent more time there than the barracks. We had enduro motorcycles and rode the tank trails. We hunted (without a license), fished, spear fished, snorkeled and dove. We rented boats and explored every nook and cranny of the Bay, shoreline and GTMO river we could, without going into communist territory. I actually despise the Navy and glad I got out. Although, I sure did have fun in GTMO but only because we walked a fine line with breaking the rules. I don't think one could get away with what we did in GTMO since after the prison.

[@alessandrovolpino9271]

At 8:04 it's not Italy but the Polícia Judiciária in Lisbon, Portugal

[@praesentius]

I was wondering about that. I'm a native English speaker, but I speak Italian (and live in Italy). And I was confused about that, because it would have been Polizia Giudiziaria, which IS a thing.

[@oxyowo4585]

You know your screwed if your enemy drops fucking burger king in the middle of combat.

[@SacsachCCABP]

George Washington: “The United States will not get involved in foreign disputes” The USA, 300 years later:

[@IRLtwigstan]

I love how often you post such long videos about geography! Thanks!!!

[@AuroraWolf655]

British Empire 21st century in a nutshell

[@mckennawatson1189]

It's almost like America is Britain's first offspring or something. 😉

[@kingdomisaiah4541]

@@mckennawatson1189 Nope. You're overexaggerating this

[@wwpl8371]

Its the same empire, they just moved the capital from london to DC after 1945

[@kingdomisaiah4541]

@@wwpl8371 not exactly

[@springs9922]

US doesn't start wars they prevent them, British empire does. Example British empire doesn't even exist anymore and it's previous actions resulted in the current conflict in palestine😂 Secondly Americans have good food British don't after stealing so much.

[@cannack]

this logistical advantage extends to allies too, like access to aircraft programs such as the globemaster allowed Canada to deploy a legit (and mission critical) tim-hortons into Kandahar

[@yolkiandeji7649]

Just didn’t mention how most of that ordnance was US Navy aircraft. Most of the F-111s from Lakenheath turned back early or missed.

[@tobiwan001]

3:30 It might have the most bases, but there is more personnel in Japan. There are roughly 55k in Japan and 35k in Germany. And most of those 35k in Germany are around Ramstein airbase which is only a logistics base. Around Stuttgart is the US African command - for some reason it is in Germany. The other large deployment are in South Korea (25k and Italy 12k as part of NATO naval operations and an airbase) and the UK (10K). So there are only 30k US soldiers outside of those 5 countries. And only 4 more countries where the US has deployed more then 1k of soldiers. As these are also divided up between several bases in each country, most of those bases are only resupply bases with a handful of soldiers. Logistics operations are handled through the UK, Italy and Germany and frontline soldiers are mainly deployed in South Korea and Japan to oppose China.

[@CJ-fs1zr]

The bases in South Korea is too fight off North Korea not china. In fact there’s a agreement in place that USFK (US forces stationed in Korea) can only be used for the Korean peninsula. South Korea government out of all the US Allie’s has the least bad relationship with China along with Us ally Tukiye and Hungary. South Korea is in Belt and road, uses Huawei in national infrastructure grid, and abstained in all UN Resolutions against china for xijang Tibet Hong Kong and SCS. Hungary abstained too while tukiye voted for one resolution and abstained in others. South Korea government already made statements saying their military won’t participate in a Taiwan conflict.

[@joshuasuhaimi]

i swear the title changed right in front of my eyes (i know they do this to measure and compare engagement but i've never seen it actually happen)

[@randomcitizen3773]

Thanks for keeping the ad to the end. You rock.

[@MyG36E]

Ayo, just a quick note, RAF Lakenheath is pronounced "Lake-n-heath" Camp Humphrey's also has a Texas Roadhouse! They also spent over $40m on their golf course.

[@theGimpfantry]

As an old Infantry soldier, I can not understand how any country would allow foreign troops on home soil. I can say for damned sure, the US populace would not allow a foreign nation to build a military base in CONUS...

[@WhhhhhhjuuuuuH]

As an Australian I agree you could say that's why there are no American bases in Australia, there are Australian's in American bases in the USA and Americans in Australian based we are allies thats to be expected, but why would you let foreigners take a slice of your land. Well the thing is that oceans make Australia and the USA really difficult to invade so it's easy to sit on our high horses but the reality is that allot of countries are worried about who is on their doorstep and it's a lesser of two evils. If the USA didn't take its military as seriously and it's neighbour was North Korea there would be no shame in asking friends for help.

[@pigman876]

There are foreign bases in the usa

[@Mesopotamian]

I think it is pretty clear, there's no such thing as "sovereign nation" this is just a gimmick introduced by colonial powers to give the people the illusion of freedom, afterall colonial powers are the ones who drew most borders anyway And anyone who isn't part of the US empire is an enemy to the empire and must be eliminated or be part of the empire by force Using wars, terr0r, puppets, proxies, threats,.. etc - I'm from Iraq.. in our case, of course the puppets they installed as our government after invading us, would accept US bases.. and even if the government doesn't want them, we have no choice, the US controls all of our oil (that's why we were invaded in the first place) and subsequently all of our income and economy because 99% of our income is from oil which goes to US banks first then to Iraq. US can crumble our entire economy in a snap of a finger if the puppet government didn't do what they want - Colonize other countries like P@lestine to build a military stronghold to control the entire region - Incite wars, fear, and worsen tention between rival nations like Saudi-Iran, Russia-Ukraine, China-Taiwan.. and offer "salvation and protection" as the only means, by of course building bases and selling weapons - and many other methods

[@AL-lh2ht]

the US usually pays for the previdleg and it also is essentially a mutual defense treaty, as any country who attacks a country with a US base in it will be treated as if the US was attacked. basiscall the US base grants protection for the host country while the US pays them.

[@Ayo69755]

@@WhhhhhhjuuuuuHisn’t there a joint military base in the middle of your country tho?

[@icenarsin5283]

Great work - Thank you!

[@RyanRhino23542]

Was stationed at aviano for 3 years, best years of my life!

[@billsun]

The map at the start (also in the thumbnail) isn't accurate . There isn't any us military base in Vienam as of now. The Cam Ranh Base, as pointed on the map, was reclaimed by the Vietnamese after the war.

[@AManAndHisKebab]

Ireland is an interesting one. Technically, there is no US military base but they often use Shannon (a civilian airport) to serve as a stop off point for cargo aircraft heading further afield to mainland Europe or the Middle East. Controversial enough here considering 1) it’s a civilian airport and 2) were meant to be a neutral country.

[@Scorch428]

Not everything is as it seems :)

[@dallysinghson5569]

Well if US military base in Ireland makes Ireland "non-neutral" i.e. "pro-US", I wonder what that means for Ukraine that hosted Russian military bases -_- Did Russia attack its ally :D

[@Larr3y]

Is there military personnel at Shannon

[@AManAndHisKebab]

@@Larr3y afaik there’s none based there permanently (hard to know, it’s kept under wraps by the Irish government) but I’d say at the very they do stay overnight in the airport in some capacity

[@AManAndHisKebab]

@@dallysinghson5569 Irelands neutrality is a bit of a hoax tbh, we’ve always been western aligned. It’s more of a front to justify our lack of military spending in recent times (Ireland doesn’t have an air force because the government is too cheap and would rather let the Brits scare off Russian bombers for us).

[@doublecomplex4741]

You finally earned a Nebula sub from this regular viewer. Love your content and am excited to check out Nebula! $30/yr is a pretty good deal - depending on content ofc but if you're there that's a great argument for similar excellent content.

[@utoobonly]

I had to come 3 times before finishing this

[@swampfoxIX]

I spent 8 years in Germany: 3 years in the military (Heidelberg). Then returned several years later as a DoD civilian employee (this time in Wiesbaden). Best years of my life, and currently applying for positions in Japan, but wouldn't mind going back to Europe again for a third time. I've been to nearly every single US installation in Germany, from the big ones that are almost like little US towns (Ramstein Air Base), to ones no one has ever heard of where only like 12 Americans work (up north in Bremerhaven, at the port) to the American prison (Mannheim Correctional Facility) to the large mega-hospital complex (Landstuhl). One day I will write a book on my crazy overseas experiences.

[@TibzzTube]

Bragging about being a US military parasite on a video talking about how bad US remote bases are. You're pretty thick even for someone from the US military.

[@elizabetht308]

was in germany as a dependent for ~5 years and loved it so much. definitely going to try to return as a civilian someday.

[@charlesguillergan8759]

​@@elizabetht308dawg you were a civilian when you were there already what do you mean return as a civilian 😂😂

[@swampfoxIX]

@@charlesguillergan8759 I understood what she meant. Lol. She means she’s not going to enlist in the Army just to go overseas, since there are ample opportunities for civilians (with 9-5 good paying jobs) to do so as well.

[@justrandom4304]

please do this for the French military I want too see something.

[@newelllondon724]

It’s really difficult there’s a very limited amount of information on French military bases

[@davidanalyst671]

there is very vague info on the french military as they have constantly changing roles and are losing power in africa.

[@springs9922]

French aren't as good as US

[@bielhelp]

Normal man: "What are they doing with our taxes?" Politics: "I'm using them on the burguer king military machine"

[@the-super-siblings]

I was completely thrown off guard when I heard that there's a BURGER KING, PIZZA HUT, and DAIRY QUEEN in an active us base 😂

[@twveach]

“Sir, we are under attack!” “Where’s the nearest aircraft carr… I mean Burger King?”

[@Noodles207]

Note: Lakenheath, at least when my dad was stationed there and me with him around 2022, was pronounced by the people there and the locals as “Lay-Ken-he-th”. Not that many syllables, but the best I could do. Also, I’d add a note that on the Lakenheath Confessionals page someone working at the Taco Bell on base reported a rat being found in the ground meat and just… taking it out and mixing up the meat 😂

[@ambergris5705]

In other words, never letting go of honored American traditions like mispronouncing names and bad quality (read food poisoning prone) fast food 😂😂😂

[@tracym8952]

It's all the places where we make sure that no one touches the boats.

[@chipshiner2371]

That was really the establishment of American power expansion. We will secure the seas and allow nations to freely trade with one another for the benefit of the entire world. And of course the US benefited the most with everyone ending up trading in US dollars/eurodollars. Which again allowed the US to be the reserve currency of the world. To which, the US has benefited greatly.

[@albcf2000]

This video is pure gold

[@KekusMagnus]

Easy to say this is about "logistics" when you have a ludicrous budget and bases everywhere

[@BostonsF1nest]

A lot of the bases they have globally are to support US military aviation efforts- whether that’s fighter jets or cargo planes

[@onebronx]

The ludicrous budget is a direct result of free trade routes protected by those bases with their complex logistic. Other countries (such as China, for example) also hugely benefit from this, getting access to a world market, getting cheaper goods, while not bearing the cost of maintenance of those outposts.

[@LoneWanderer727]

Lol you're a bozo

[@nextworld9176]

Glad to see this video. Much better than seeing "Russia's 200 bases dominating Europe, China's navy rules the Pacific, North Korea blackmails Japan with nukes. and Iranian navy rules the Gulf of Mexico." Yep, I'm rather happy having the USA all over the world---and nearly all of the rest of the world is happy to have us there, too.

[@catmonarchist8920]

The US is the worst global power apart from all the others.

[@yomomz3921]

If the world wasn't happy, how would you know? 🤔 Would it be possible?

[@bugsnbombs]

No they're not most people in the world hate your country and would rather see an asteroid drop on it

[@nextworld9176]

@@yomomz3921 If a country doesn't want the US Navy protecting the waters near their sea borders, they could invite someone else to exercise there. So far, only the Russians and Chinese have cooperated at sea. The Europeans and southern Asians have teamed up with USA to fight pirating.

[@tobiwan001]

6:30 German law fully applies in Ramstein. And the treaty between Germany and the US states that the US is explicitly bound by e.g. the "Kriegswaffenkontrollgesetz" (i.e. the law governing the distribution of weapons of war). However, Germany grants immunity to US soldiers at the base as long as the US exercises military jurisdiction in the same way and applies German law. If the US does not, Germany would have to prosecute or to terminate the deployment contract. The political implications would have been to problematic for both sides, so nobody pursued it.

[@curian1286]

Very comprehensive and well done video overall! Can tell there was a lot of research that went into this video.

[@XBluDiamondX]

But there was a lack of research in how to pronounce many of these names. I have no idea what goes in the narrator's head when he decides to pronounce stuff.

[@curian1286]

@XBluDiamondX It's surprisingly common. There are a lot of names to figure out how to pronounce, but maybe it is included in the research, and whatever program they use mispronounces it. It happens all the time with GPS and mapping software and still makes me cringe a bit when I hear it when driving somewhere, haha. In short, I always try to give the benefit of the doubt. People make mistakes, and unless it's a refusal to accept reality, it's whatever. I won't hold them to the fire over it.

[@kanyehess33]

That part about Okinawa was interesting. My brother in law was a staff Sargent stationed there to help close one of the bases

[@Numba003]

The fact that the US military has airlifted mobile fast food places to active war zones is so stereotypically American that it sounds like it could be a joke, lol. Thank you for the informative and interesting video. God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)

[@onebronx]

As stereotypical as Italian military airlifting pizzerias, French military airlifting jambon-beurre bistros, German military airlifring döner stands or Russian military airlifting crates of vodka :)

[@doujinflip]

Russians do airlift vodka though. Their TU-22 bombers use what's basically vodka as its air conditioning refrigerant.

[@Pythes]

We've also sent fighter jets inside a larger aircraft, another large aircraft inside of a larger aircraft, a submarine inside of a large aircraft AND a live orca inside of a large aircraft.

[@rvikrv]

I remember seeing old newspaper articles from our local small Dutch village newspaper that my parents saved. The article was about a demonstration that was organized because there were American atomic weapons stationed at our local military base in this small Dutch town.

[@Roguescienceguy]

Yep, and there still are in kleine Brogel in Belgium. Something we don't like, but as our neighbours you know how utterly useless and corrupt our politicians are😂

[@chriss2452]

As a Swede, this infuriates me. Our government just made us join nato, without a sensus. On top of that they entered a DCA with the US that grants them unrestricted access to 17 of our military bases. Guess what they will install there...

[@ActionAlligator]

@@chriss2452 Sure, but aren't you more worried about Russia, the local aggressive power that also has nukes? I sympathize with your dilemma, but seems you guys had some security concerns that the US could help with.

[@josephmagana6235]

@@Roguescienceguy FYI, nuclear weapon sharing is usually something your countries asks the United States for, not something we impose on you. Those weapons aren't there for the US to use, they're meant to be delivered by Belgian/Dutch/German/Turkish aircraft in the event of war in defense of those countries. The reason for these agreements is that host countries were worried the US wasn't sufficiently committed to NATO and would flake in the event of nuclear war and abandon them, so they asked for this commitment up front.

[@Roguescienceguy]

@@josephmagana6235 during the cold war Europe was literally the frontline. So it's only logical that they were there, but they shouldn't have been there anymore. The nukes are ICBMs btw and on a base that's run by US soldiers. Your gov's propaganda is wild. Why would we want American nukes when France and Britain have nukes of their own? No, your nukes are there just like your military bases are spread across the geopolitical landscape. Because YOU want to put them there so you can deploy as fast as possible against the "so-called" enemy.

[@potorokusmc13]

Omg his pronunciation of Lakenheath killed me lol. It’s a long “A” sound as in the word Lake.

[@Naturenerd1000]

The US millitary bases are basically a continuation of The British Enpire.

[@johnweerasinghe4139]

Bammmm.......right on

[@ironiccookies2320]

It's a new form of colonialism

[@Sib1204]

Not a continuation at all. The British empire is dead

[@wrestlinganime4life288]

​@Si1-p5e nah they still got the commonwealth

[@karollipowski4]

😂😂​@@wrestlinganime4life288

[@FlyWithVeiga]

I’ve never heard of Diego Garcia island. That might’ve been the most interesting piece of info I’ve learned on this channel 🔥

[@richdobbs6595]

I think you mean Diego Garcia. The island in the Indian Ocean that the British have leased to the USA?

[@Arkiasis]

Diego Garcia. I only heard about it from a Behind the Bastards podcast and it's utterly ridiculous.

[@FlyWithVeiga]

@@richdobbs6595 yeah I've never heard of it before

[@DeliveryMcGee]

@@Arkiasis "The British agreed to get rid of the Chagosians in exchange for a discount on Polaris missiles, so basically a gift card for Armageddon." "Not even a gift card! Store credit!"

[@praesentius]

Used to fly out there on the RC-135 Rivet Joint. I tell you what, it might not be 1st class, but it's WAY better than coach for flights that long. Except... dress like you're going to the arctic.

[@Tsbg-j5z]

I love Real Life Lore and I love their videos AS WELL. I can’t wait to watch this one ONCE AGAIN.

[@nicholasrose8173]

That camp Humphreys food court hits different after the flight to ROK lol

[@King-of-the-Brittons]

Everyone local says "Lakenheath" not "Lackenheath"

[@FluffyFluffles]

His pronunciation caught me so off guard, took me out of the video

[@strangeclouds7]

​@@FluffyFluffles❄️

[@ivelinto]

Where do you get that information from ?

[@Bergamot88]

Imagine if russia tried making bases like this, it would be ww3

[@mehmed13]

yeah

[@welfh3854]

most of the bases are in allied countries

[@ScratchyYard]

they dont have that many allies

[@mehmed13]

@@welfh3854 many are puppets: (germany+japan) appear as democratic (middle eastern countries) clearly dictatorships

[@mehmed13]

@@ScratchyYard many of us allies are like belarus to russia, especially in the middle east