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 Jihadin wrote:
Eventually....someone might put Putin "In Check". The talk of "putting boots on ground" is getting out o hand.....That armor Corp going to steam roll right to the halfway point in Ukraine. Only thing holding it back is "attacks on ethnic Russians".

Well as we have learned, nothing stops the unjustified and hostile expansion of aggressors like unjustifiably expanding and surrounding them with bases. "HOW DARE THEY"!

Why is NATO trying to get into eastern Europe and Russia's backyard?

Oy Natasha, you can still 'prosecute' me anytime you want...
It looks like Crimea's famous new chief prosecutor has now also become noticed outside of Crimea :http://rt.com/news/prosecutor-natalia-poklonskaya-crimea-101/
I approve.

I like that map of the bases, is their a bigger copy I now this guy I argue with and I want to show it to him.

yeah... her popularity is just one of the ways we see how outside of the US, support for the west on this issue is quite lax, plenty of countries who signed the UN resolution only did so under duress (sign this or that agreement we had wont happen, ect).

Wait, an internet meme is the true window into the geo-political attitudes of western society at-large?

Map is wrong Andrew...An Embassy houses USMC security so basically that world map...belongs to the USMC....aannnddddd KM and other Leathernecks ego has hit a new high water mark,,

All US embassies use USMC security?

Interesting. Any particular reason?

 Jihadin wrote:
Map is wrong Andrew...An Embassy houses USMC security so basically that world map...belongs to the USMC....aannnddddd KM and other Leathernecks ego has hit a new high water mark,,

An embassy is not a military base.

What US military bases do we have in Thailand? Australia? Iceland? Canada? Panama?

The Aussie bases will date back to WW2.

Why do we have military bases in the US unless we plan on invading the US?!

Quiet Ahtman...you forget the Overlord command to remain silent?

 d-usa wrote:
Wait, an internet meme is the true window into the geo-political attitudes of western society at-large?

Evidently. Once you're anime worthy what else matters?

 Jihadin wrote:
What US military bases do we have in Thailand? Australia? Iceland? Canada? Panama?

Think the one in Iceland may have closed down, but to my knowledge, which is based purely on hearsay and the ramblings of the older generations of my MOS, it was a weather station, as well as an MI detachment (or rather, more of a relay spot)


We have a mid sized maintenance facility for the army in Australia. From what I gather, it's right near one of the worst prisons in the country, and near a not so nice town.

 Jihadin wrote:
What US military bases do we have in Thailand? Australia? Iceland? Canada? Panama?

Where don't we have embassies?

We don't have an embassy say..Cuba..we do have an office there. Six peep office run by Immigration. We have an office in Iran run by Sweden. Not in North Korea...over all if we do not have an Embassy in country then its a office run by by USCIS or Sweden.

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 d-usa wrote:
Wait, an internet meme is the true window into the geo-political attitudes of western society at-large?

Evidently. Once you're anime worthy what else matters?

So the answer to the entire crisis for Ukraine is "more tentacles"?

 d-usa wrote:

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 d-usa wrote:
Wait, an internet meme is the true window into the geo-political attitudes of western society at-large?

Evidently. Once you're anime worthy what else matters?

So the answer to the entire crisis for Ukraine is "more tentacles"?

Putin's answer for the Ukraine, maybe.

Prosecutie. lol

 d-usa wrote:

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 d-usa wrote:
Wait, an internet meme is the true window into the geo-political attitudes of western society at-large?

Evidently. Once you're anime worthy what else matters?

So the answer to the entire crisis for Ukraine is "more tentacles"?

School girl outfits and giant robots optional

 Jihadin wrote:
What US military bases do we have in Thailand? Australia? Iceland? Canada? Panama?

The expansion of the US base in Darwin and deployment of US ground troops to the area was a fairly big deal here, to the extent that any foreign policy issue outside of a war receives that much interest.

I'm kind of surprised it didn't get any attention among the military set in the US. It was a fairly important part of the US looking to hem in Chinese expansion.


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 Ahtman wrote:
Why do we have military bases in the US unless we plan on invading the US?!

That is pretty much the perfect answer.

 sebster wrote:

I'm kind of surprised it didn't get any attention among the military set in the US. It was a fairly important part of the US looking to hem in Chinese expansion.

It has gotten the attention of some of us.

 Jihadin wrote:
What US military bases do we have in Thailand? Australia? Iceland? Canada? Panama?

We have a USAF Solar Observatory in NW Australia.

You'd be surprised at what countries we could conquer from that jumping point.

 djones520 wrote:
You'd be surprised at what countries we could conquer from that jumping point.

Australia, for one.

 Seaward wrote:

 djones520 wrote:
You'd be surprised at what countries we could conquer from that jumping point.

Australia, for one.

Until you all got eaten by Drop Bears

 Seaward wrote:

 djones520 wrote:
You'd be surprised at what countries we could conquer from that jumping point.

Australia, for one.

Everyone knows to take australia. It's a bottleneck, and an easy two army bonus

 Seaward wrote:

 djones520 wrote:
You'd be surprised at what countries we could conquer from that jumping point.

Australia, for one.

Australia is prepared for this contingency. They have surrounded the observatory with trees, killer drop bear hiding trees...

There's also the spiders.

 Grey Templar wrote:
All US embassies use USMC security?

Interesting. Any particular reason?

No, not all, just many.

 Jihadin wrote:
What US military bases do we have in Thailand? Australia? Iceland? Canada? Panama?

There are joint US/Canadian NORAD installations in Canada. We have 2500 Marines stationed in Perth or Darwin, Australia (forget which), and the Navy and Air Force utilize Australian Naval and Air facilities for various purposes. The US has a defense pact with Iceland (we had a base there until 2006), used by AF/Navy for flight ops. Panama and Thailand I have no clue. The map is inaccurate btw, as we have bases in Africa, specifically Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, though I believe there are some others.

 sebster wrote:

 Jihadin wrote:
What US military bases do we have in Thailand? Australia? Iceland? Canada? Panama?

The expansion of the US base in Darwin and deployment of US ground troops to the area was a fairly big deal here, to the extent that any foreign policy issue outside of a war receives that much interest.

I'm kind of surprised it didn't get any attention among the military set in the US. It was a fairly important part of the US looking to hem in Chinese expansion.


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 Ahtman wrote:
Why do we have military bases in the US unless we plan on invading the US?!

That is pretty much the perfect answer.

It did get a lot of news here... at least I and most of my friends in the AF, Marines, and Navy knew about it... maybe he just wasnt paying attention? Or he doesn't care since the Army doesnt seem to be doing any rotations there.

Didn't know people were still talking about this, I thought Russia got the Crimea, and American and the EU backed down, am I missing something?

Ironclad Warlord wrote:
Didn't know people were still talking about this, I thought Russia got the Crimea, and American and the EU backed down, am I missing something?

The Crimea thing is almost settled, Russia gets it and the West can't do nothing about it.
What is more interesting in this moment is the rest of Ukraine.