OF THESE US BASES (a) How many are capable of force projection? (b) How many of

OF THESE US BASES
(a) How many are capable of force projection?
(b) How many of those bases are in countries that want and need us there?
(c) How many are for maintaining naval, air, and communications support necessary for policing world system of finance, transport, and free trade?
(d) How many are functionally diplomatic providing the host country with confidence in american support given local hostiles.

The USA was trying to withdraw from world policing of transport and trade because creating the world of free trade is beneficial for the developing world at the cost of American laboring, working, and middle classes.

This created the RU, CN, Iran motive for conflict. If we fully withdraw the USA is autarkic and will PROFIT because it will be the only stable place to put money, while the rest of the world will experience wars given the power vacuum and the end of free trade, the conversion of oil into blackmail.

Americans are perfectly happy to let the world suffer – or at least they were until we understood that we are close to a civil war ourselves.