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  • If they wanted them gone bad enough, they could starve them out.

    Who is “they”? Clearly, the German business class don’t want American soldiers gone. They’re a profit center. And the locals who have to deal with these dickbags running around, crashing vehicles, assaulting people at bars, and otherwise making anyone within half a mile of a base miserable clearly don’t have any kind of actual economic control of the municipalities.

    Nato was formed in 1949 which was before the korea war and was always about preventing soviet aggression.

    Why wasn’t West Germany invited until six years later?










  • However, Germany could just refuse to allow anyone to supply food, power, petrol etc. to American bases

    Why would German business interests turn down lucrative contracts to supply heavily marked up commodities to a captive clientele? And why would the German state government interfere with the finances of prolific political donors?

    Maybe the German citizenry could boycott the bases. But they’d need a large nationalist labor movement for that kind of effort. And I’m not seeing it happen in a nation as sharply divided along regional and ethnic lines.

    The reason nato was created was the threat of the soviet Russian empire

    Not until after the Korean War, and the official entrance of West Germany to NATO, did the goal shift to Soviet containment. The original explicit stated purpose of the organization was to prevent German re-militarization - a perceived error of the original WW1 settlement. Soviet Russia was considered an ally and partner in this purpose under FDR and only became a belligerent under Truman, in the scramble to entrench capitalism as the primary economic model of the Pacific Rim.


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    The thing about Anarchy is that, for many people, the cashless society where you own nothing and are fully removed from the machine of industry is already here. Its just called “poverty”.

    The problem is that this kind of poverty isn’t equally distributed. You’ve still got this large, heavily armed occupying force that preserves money, capital, and the painful prodding of induced productivity for everyone else.