Why does the US military have bases in almost all parts of the world?
Money.The United States of America is an empire of money, not land. We do not want your land, or people. We do not want to replace your religion with ours or steal your natural resources.We want your country to do business with ours and both be profitable (but we want to be a little more profitable than you.)When countries become a problem on the global economic scale, we can point to our forward deployed forces as a not so subtle hint. Fix the problem or we’ll do it for you.Our overseas bases are heavily structured as “assets and interests” protection.Countries that are problem areas, but not economically relevant or critical are not bothered nor do we heavily troubleshoot them. Sure, a politician may harp on a human rights violation because his polls show his constituency cares about it, but the US isn’t intervening in those matters. Sovereign states are sovereign. We respect that. Until their sovereignty begins to upset the world economy. Then we (and the world) start to take actions.First we try diplomacy. Then our allies try. We do this multiple times. But eventually, a decision has to be made. Every dictator who we’ve gone to war with overseas was given a very frank option. Straighten up or else.When they choose the latter, we have a network of several hundred bases with which to rapidly escalate our response to bring the situation under control.The US is the enforcement arm of the world economy. Either thru diplomacy, sanctions, or military means. And, despite what individual PEOPLE may feel about war or the US acting like the police, the fact of the matter is that most GOVERNMENTS fully support this doctrine. We are allowed to protect our interests because the side effect is that other countries can advance their own interests too.Everyone wants money. The US just so happens to be the only country in a position to finance and pay for the system needed to do it effectively.
Military nurse!!!??? Need help?
I want to be a surgeon/nurse in the military. But I don't want to get shot. I hear that the nurses just stay at the base. What's the chance I will get killed. Im not scared of death but I was just curious.
Does it bother Democrats that George Soros heavily funds groups like the Center for Popular democracy, MoveOn and other PACs that promote divisive partisanship in America?
The Soros caricature is one of the many boogeymen (boogeypeople?) that the RW has cultivated amongst their following to create fear and anger for the so-called “left.” These caricatures have devolved for them into little more than pejoratives, flung around with little actual knowledge of whom they speak, and even less actual interest in the truth.Meanwhile, those same Soros-slingers act with little or no knowledge of the vast sums that RW donors pour into various cesspools, and why.For example, climate change initiatives directly threaten the Koch empire, partly by shifting long-term energy sources from fossil fuels to renewables, and partly by requiring heavy polluters like the fossil fuel industry to clean up after themselves and not to make messes in the first place - such as oil spills, carbon emissions, etc., etc.The genius of the Kochs is that they have used their vast resources (about 9x more than Soros, btw) to re-educate millions of their followers that climate change is a hoax. In doing so they have established a broad base of ‘experts’ who can readily repeat junk science findings on demand; meanwhile, many of these ‘experts’ might have gotten a C in 9th grade physical science, yet they are qualified to spread evidence that climate change is a hoax. But what is the masses’ benefit? Mainly the satisfaction of thinking that they are sticking a finger in some liberal’s eye. The health of their children and grandchildren - and themselves! are of a lesser priority than the anti-liberal fever they feel.And throwing out pejoratives such as Soros! Hillary! Benghazi! emails!! Kenya! Acorn!! Muslims!! Gun control!! Snowflake!!! etc. just keeps the faithful busy whilst those who pretend to be their benefactors are actually cutting the legs out from our society and undermining the economy and our democratic institutions in the process.BTW, it’s simply an adaptation of tactics deployed and applied so effectively by the likes of Lenin - who embraced the importance of the “Useful Idiots” to further his cause - as well as Goebbels; both masters of propaganda.There are none so blind as they who will not see.