This looks like Russian/Chinese propaganda or just lazily photoshopped image.
Actual map of US military bases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_military_installations#/media/File:American_bases_worldwide.svg
Americans may be surprised to find that foreigners actually don't pay as much attention to US elections as they think. Even many people in the US don't care, they're just inundated with media coverage of it. At most about 66% of eligible voters even vote and the people that do vote aren't necessarily informed. You may have seen interviews with undecided voters. They turn up to vote but haven't necessarily put much thought into it.
As an aside, I find it funny when Americans scream about other countries empire building and carrying out provocative military exercises when the US has so many military bases everywhere. You don't need to officially annex land to control it, that's old style thinking.
America: Establishes military bases, missile silos, CIA blacksites, international espionage agreements to violate the rights of the citizens in dozens of countries, has invaded and overturned governments because they disagree with what the president wants, calls itself the world police.
Americans: "Why are so many non-Americans invested in what goes on in our country? I know we're a big deal, but why would anyone be interested? Must be paid actors and bots! I don't care about French elections, why would they care about American?"
Dear Earth,
The U.S. is about to fuck over humanity.
Zero fucks about climate change.
Leadership connections with the worst ass hats on the planet.
I apologize.
I wish y'all the best.
about to
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Inauguration ain't till January
Some things don’t change from administration to another, such as:
U.S. Military Is World’s Biggest Polluter
And Democratic politicians are just as capable of war crimes.
Cool.
I'm sure there will be no difference in the US's impact on and relations with the rest of the world once Trump realizes over for Biden.
I'm glad it'll be the same, because I was thinking it'd get worse.
Silly me!
During Clinton’s administration 500,000 Iraqi children were killed through sanctions and Albright on 60 Minutes said it was worth it.
Now during Biden we have a genocide with over 50,000 dead.
The US foreign policy has been terrible even under Democrats. Liberals only care when the president is a Republican.
We were never good, we've just excavated a whole new bottom to hit. It's almost impressive considering how much we've always sucked.
Americans: Why don't foreigners care about every aspect of America every second of every day?
American exceptionalism is ingrained so deep in most people here that they would never even consider or doubt why the world pays attention to them, just: "Duh of course they do, because we're America!"
Correct. I think the entire premise that an American would question this idea is an indication that the meme was made by somebody from a country with one of these pins in it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending this mindset. I am myself an American making this observation with a sense of shame and mild horror.
The picture is an exaggeration. India DOES NOT allow foreign military bases
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_black_sites
Sri Lanka participated in the US redition process. This image is also rather old. Very likely the Modi government has opened the back door to this shit in the last ten years.
Yeah the Aussie presence is in completely the wrong spots too. It's bullshit.
Neither does Pakistan, those are actually super top secret CIA outposts lol
The US doesn't have any military bases in Alaska? Not even one?
Huh. 🤔 . They do of course. https://militarybases.com/alaska I also see 9. :T well that’s annoying. Now that I look closer I do see Closed military bases on this list and the scale is absolutely horrendous. Decidedly not effective for communicating information specifically, but great for reaffirming the general you know like the US has a bunch of them and it operates troops and such out of them
take note canadians
Imagine if China had bases like that
If you do a search for "are there secret chinese police stations in canada", would that count?
Not to be a china apologist, but overt military presence in the form of missiles and boots on the ground is very different from clandestine operations abroad. Basically all major powers have the latter. What do you think the CIA is?
If you mean https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_police_overseas_service_stations, then yes, but imagine they have soldiers and illegal weapons and claim to be ensuring stability of the region
My first thought was to wonder if we'll try to buy Greenland again.
Apparently, some have been pushing that last week already...
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