There are approximately 750 U.S. overseas military base sites in 80 foreign countries and colonies.
Three decades after the Cold War, there are still 119 base sites in Germany and 119 in Japan. In South Korea there are 73. Other U.S. bases: from Aruba to Australia, Kenya to Qatar, Romania to Singapore, and beyond.
The United States has three times as many overseas bases as other countries combined, with concentrations of facilities in the Middle East, East Asia, parts of Europe, and Africa.
[ Construction of military infrastructure abroad has cost American taxpayers at least $70 billion since 2000, and could total well be over $100 billion ]
The key point:
These bases have enabled the United States to launch wars and other combat operations. Since 2001, the U.S. military has been involved in combat in at least 25 countries worldwide; now, including Ukraine, 🇺🇦 - through proxies and proxy warfares
The majority of U.S. bases was justified as “ringing” and "the containment" of Communism. The bases that are encircling China:
313 U.S. military base sites in East Asia alone, including on the tiny Pacific island of Saipan - 33 acres of leased land for next 50 years.
AUKUS submarines in Indo-Pacific blue ocean (asiatimes, March 2023:
Between 1980 and 2020, U.S. wars and sanctions in Iraq and Afghanistan - had killed more than two million people; (read Sanction Surge Syndrome and SANCTION WARFARE).
In 2015, Cross of Vietnam reported up to one million Vietnamese were disabled or had health problems due to Agent Orange, include 100,000 children.
Furthermore, U.S. military interventions, support for client states and rebels, and related famines in Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Nigeria cost the lives of another five million people.
Washington’s proxy wars in Angola, Mozambique, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Syria resulted in about nine million deaths.
The United States of America having direct or shared responsibility for the deaths altogether of more than twenty-five million people (David Smith)
New York: Monthly Review Press, 2023], 208–9, 256–57).
This is the price in accepting and allocating US military bases by host countries which became entrapped to an Empire Builder with a Hegemonic Hubris.
U.S. B52 nuclear bomber over and in Indonesia
