Professor Dave Vine exposes America's colonialism and war-mongering advantages around the globe

Jamie Logan
   Professor David Vine has written a book called Base Nation" that practically looks at the controversy of the American military having like a  thousand bases all around the world. geopolitical tensions are increased according to Vine by are insistence of regarding these bases and territory as integral part of the American global landscape that needs to be spent and defended at all times. this book looks at the impact of these American bases on the indigenous people and the environment far away from the homes of members of congress and the military brass that continues to insist we need to developed and expand our presence. Our friendship with shady dictators and mobsters in these host coutries through the years does much to undermine the AmericanThis book exposes how this network of bases  was achieved and how we use our economic power and influence to maintain these bases most of which are most unnecessary for the protection of or country. labor exploitation of the worlds poor and profiteering of the military by connected companies is brought up and explained as the main motivation for our corrupt government rewarding contractors with opaque contracts to run these missions in other peoples lands with local governments has corrupt as our own empire. These missions, similar to the ones created by the Spanish catholic church,  are established and able to operate thanks to the political donations it makes to members of congress especially those of special committees. the pentagon has long tried to downplay the cost but as Vine points out the spending bill approaches well over a hundred billion dollars a year.

 When the cost of running a war is added these costs are staggering and a complex of deceit and brutality is created to big to stop. vine points out that there is nothing to protect in bases such as in Okinawa where people have long rallied for US troops to leave. Instead the places are used for the US military to use and abuse in constant training to justify tand add to their expenses to the American tax payer. David Vine kicks ass and his books clearly show the shame that is the pentagon and its need to extraterritorial  expansion to add to world tension and make war a constant jeopardy from those who would profit and make a killing in more ways than one. worse yet vine says the Us military is now training its own mercenary "African Union" proxy troops to fight its battles in the continent primarily when  they feel it is necessary to help US business interests. Interests that pay very little into this system but make extreme profits.