Our armed forces are stationed in 176...

[SHRED]

...foreign countries and territories.


Why?
I thought we were broke?


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[Pavulon]

1. Some like Japan, we have a treaty binding us

to protect their sovereignty. Others like Germany have had us there since the end of ww2. The basic idea is to serve american interest.

[existentialist]

2. I think that includes embassy guards who are generally marines.

[2Design]

3. part of the military industrial complex and to keep the only americans

employed since outsourcing