Source is Linked below.
Highlights include: Actually about a fourth or so of these troops are at sea. . This is an estimate, so anywhere the US doesn’t acknowledge how many troops are there, Israel obviously, but also Syria. Have to rely on years old numbers from the pentagon. . US forces have occupied parts of Kuwait since the first invasion of iraq in 1991 - not news, but I didn’t know that., i mean, of course. just… never thought about it.-
https://www.axios.com/2023/10/31/american-troops-middle-east-israel-palestine
The US state’s hegemony is the result of military & economic domination at a global scale. In a capitalist society success is measured by the amount of exploitation that occurs