• Ziggurat@jlai.lu
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    13 hours ago

    The reason why so many people are happy to have US base in their country, isn’t about defence but about, Thousands of young people with disposable income. It’s a non negligible impact in some places.

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      12 hours ago

      And it’s thousands of Americans bringing their money into the region, not just locals circulating existing money between businesses.

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      9 hours ago

      But also in some regions, the implied defense is big too, I’d wager just not the majority of them.