The US' Overseas Military Base Strategy
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"And all these bases are connected by Airplanes. The price of these flights are determined by supply and demand" - Wendover
Novella gtfo
Shane Thomas ? Ok that’s random
No comments??? Lol
@@ckr3167 wendover likes to talk about airlines and that stuff
"The US' Overseas Military Base Strategy" ~ Yepp, gonna be planes.
Is it possible for Wendover Production to make videos without mentioning Airplane
Tzwac dastag no
@@christophervlaskamp7462 Maybe he was born on a plane
Man, I hated planes in Calculus
@@Harshhaze LOL
The US Military is a firm believer of "Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it."
Problem, this could pay for free college. ( edit: as in university funded by research grants - TU Munich model. )
@@CHMichael Oh yeah, because a free bachelor's degree in basket weaving is better than protecting the free world from tyrannical authoritarian governments that want to take over the world.
@@CaptainAlliance Well struck, sir. Well struck indeed
@@CHMichael actually it wouldn’t but I’m sure you never bothered to run the numbers before coming up with that belief
@@CaptainAlliance Except that the US gives aid to the majority of authoritarian regimes around the world and commits horrific genocides like the one in Yemen. So yeah, it's better for everyone involved if America spent its money giving its people education and healthcare instead of invading and bombing impoverished countries.
"a navy with more aircraft than some countries air forces" the US Navy has the second largest air force, and guess who has the first.
@@brandontimmons3976 that was the joke dumbass...if the second largest airforce in the world is the US Navy...obviously the first is the US airforce...if you enlist you should go infantry
@@r.m2072 yep,I got what you meant!
>communist
>overweight
lmao
brandon timmons u dumbass
Ryan Muldoon thank you for explaining the joke to him lmao. He should def be *marine* infantry. The population of unlicked windows and uneaten crayons is getting dangerously high.
Time it took to show an airplane: 10 Seconds
Time it took to mention airplanes: 281 Seconds
And the first 9 seconds were the intro
Nah he mentioned drones at 0:44
gracefool airplane not aircraft
@@user-qv5lr1sy9o Drones are airplanes.
@@MrKratein some drones are airplanes.
Next week on Wendover Productions: How The CIA Interrogates People Who Release National Secrets on TH-cam
secrets to whom?
I'm the other nations has this information already if he is able to get it.
I get this is a joke but maybe "How the CIA investigate people who give very hidden facts to over a million people"
SlightlyCrookedWorkshop 90 ways to use Waterboarding! You won’t believe 69!
lmao
Iran president: Write that down, write that down!
Iran 🇮🇷 and the USA 🇺🇸 never go to war. Trump wins again, and the democrats win in 2024. Nasa goes back to the moon, I said this in January of 2020 you’ll read my comment in the future and be blown away by how right I turn out to be :).
Anatoly Dyatlov I know, and you’ll come to find I’m beyond right.
i hope not, the damage caused by the US democrats here in the Far East has been irreversible.
They won’t understand English...
Yeshua is ****, sorry but you miss understood a joke for something else as my saying was not a joke what so ever.
I'm forever 12 years old...
I chuckled every time he said "Djibouti"
"Anal Force One: How USA's Base in Djibouti Operates" by Bend Over Productions
I worked there for two years up to this March, and I still giggle like I'm back in Jr High.
7:26 for a second i thought that c-17 was going to enter into the c-5 xd
Lol
Benjamin S I did too lol
Fully loaded with c-4
Docking.
LOOOOL xD
7:27 - Definitely thought that plane was gonna go inside that other one for a moment. Wings be damned!
haha i thought that too
hahaha lol me too
Planeception ✈️ 🤯
How you think planes are made?
It's been done. Wings are removable.
"The US has a moon base where it launches rockets powered by cheese and houses SCP-096, which was developed using funds from Steve Jobs' estate, however, according to this list, it doesn't exist."
lol
Lmao
fr? 😳
Gouda vapor, specifically.
Wendover production : US military's secret base in Niger
US military : am I a joke to you?
slimshady they assume most people can’t be bothered to look up things for themselves. And they’d be correct.
@slimshady I guess it’s a plausible deniability kinda thing
"How many military bases do you have?"
US military: "Yes"
How many civilians have you killed?
US military: ''Yes''
@@Aamie less than Stalin, Hitler and Mao.
@@Aamielmao
haha real funny. you must be the memer haha arent you.
@@kineticstar Do you really think that?
Topic: US military bases
Wendover: Let's talk about charter flights
Jonathan Palmquist they talked about it for like 3 mins, chill😂
Are you deaf or just stupid ?
Charter flights to Trump golf course in Ireland? ;-)
Marcus Summers France is an allied nuclear power, it doesn’t matter
😂
We stopped at Ramstein for a couple days on our way back from Afghanistan. It’s the most beautiful base I’ve ever been to, a massive bx that’s pretty much a shopping mall with stores and food places everywhere and we could go off base and explore Germany. Compared to where we just came from, it was like heaven. I also did wonder why we had such a large base there still, since Europe is normalized since ww2, thanks for answering that.
Omg this comment aged well XD
Normalised?
Journalist: "Hey US Military, how many bases do you have?"
US Military: "Yes."
I've been on contingency bases. They are basically a parking lot off of a road or something like an air strip. You fly in, unload a tent, hangout for a week or month, and leave. Nobody stays full time. Bases are permanent.
And isn't that important if a war broke out around?
If it's still available, which it might not be until you clear the place of the local (invariably armed) herder and his dozens of heads of steer... again
Allot of reserve troops go for a few weeks for annual training. I went to the Dominican republic for three weeks one time. I have friends that have been to to Africa.
Wow giving away secrets much
@@ghostofvalor4349 not secret, but definitely bad opsec practice because of aggregation.
The US military is like an international real estate company
It’s free real estate
Slaughter houses*
Shahnid Ismail It’s slightly more complicated. The quoted Ramstein Air Base is installed on German territory owned by Germany. However, this “landlord” does not collect any rent from the USAF, pays for any environmental damages due to military activities, provides some extra upkeep and pays part of new or upgraded buildings. For example, the entire planning (about 15% of the total budget) of the new army hospital (replacing an older one) right across Ramstein Air Base has been paid by Germany.
@@AndersHenke Could have just left Germany to the soviets after the war. I doubt Germany would be 1st world if the USA did that.
@@PwerRanger01 The original plan was to make Germany into a land of farms and milk maids.
I love your videos. I also live in a us military installation in Korea. You were very accurate with locals have mixed feelings. Some local Korean nationals love having us and feel safer with us here. But there also a good amount that wish we were no longer here. There’s also a constant give and take with the land the us military uses. Great video
Hey!! I was in Djibouti on that base. It's not super-secret what we're doing. Probably people will think I'm lying but the whole 15 months I was there I was force protection for civil affairs teams that were digging wells, building schools, hospitals, and other infrastructure projects. The Saudis and Chinese are running around there too. The big difference is: they are handing out short term fixes that the people want. Food and money. That's just not sustainable. The USA is doing it different. Sure we handed out some food and cash, but the majority focus was on self sufficiency. For example: we would install solar panels to pump water from the well. We would then TRAIN locals how to maintain them and doing other project maintenance. I hope it works out in the end. I am proud of what we did. My profile picture is also from Djibouti in a small town called Tadjoura. Thanks for reading. God bless the world.
GOD BLESS AMERICA dear soldier, wish for your good luck and good health, You are doing a great job.
How to make a wendover productions video.
1.Think of a cool topic, but make it somehow related to aviation.
Step 1: Think of a plane
Step 2: Try to make an excuse to talk about it
If you tell the Army "Secure that building!" They will surround it with armor and heavy infantry and not let anyone out of it until told to
If you tell the Marines "Secure that building!" They will storm the building, eliminate any resistance, and allow no one to enter it until told to.
If you tell the Navy "Secure that building!" They will turn out the lights, close and lock all doors and windows and post a fire watch
If you tell the Air Force "Secure that building!" They will take out a 30 year lease with an option to buy.
1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
OORAH
@@jnurse24
Why do I have outdated equipment officer?
Shut it private, you're my way to promotion. Now do your job with subpar equipment.
Roger that -asshole-
Hunter Tomlin lol
You forget where the marines take a snack break and eat their crayons
We had pro base protests in Korea. A bunch of Koreans with signs and American flags hanging out at our gates and thanking us for being there. Not as often as the anti base protests but they happened.
LMAO thats so pathetic 😂 getting occupied by foreign military and still thanking them, thats such a bootlicking move lol
@@felixcsao4184 I mean, they were the ones who saved them from being part of North Korea.
@@thanos1707 Not really 😂 the US was killing South Korean civilians as well
@@felixcsao4184 better shut up thell come for u next put a puppet dictator
@@felixcsao4184 what country hasn't done thaf lol u act like it's bpack and white grow up
I learned everything I need to know about forward basing the enemy from Age of Empires
@Gaius Wyrden Still fun a decade later too!
So this is the reason why Ramstein made the song "We're all living in America".
*Rammstein
Nice one !
Its about capitalist culture after ww2. Not the bases themself but the world they protect
Ramstein the base or rammstein the band? Good pun, though.
Yes, because we all hate you, you filthy, crafty profiteers.
This video wasn't about planes, but we still see them regardless lol
dw4467 ok
As long as the video show planes, however briefly, that's good
Dude this joke is so old, stfu already
I can be watching just his nonplane vids and if I doze off; every time! Every time I wake up to a four hour vid TH-cam thought I might like of planes taking off and landing >.>
So many planes...
This was a very good video! So informative and a wonderful presentaion 👏🏼
I used to live on Ramstein. I worked on the C130 you showed! Its a pretty cool place and this video made me want to go visit Germany again
-Babe, can I call you African Command?
-No. why?
-cuz I'm about to deploy in Djibouti
César Guevara nice
HGAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA MAN THIS IS THE BEST JOKE IVE HEARD IN MY ENTIRE FUCKING LIFE AHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA IM DYING THANK YOU FOR THIS MAN
I'm using this, it's just too perfect
Wow 😯 This is one of the best jokes ever.
Noice one.
Good video but it missed a couple of points: first, a major purpose of military bases in certain countries (namely Germany and South Korea) are as "tripwires" that would automatically pull the US into a war should that ally be invaded. It's a way of reassuring the ally that the US leadership won't get cold feet should the worst happen.
Second, a major factor in why overseas bases are so unpopular in some contries (namely Japan and SK) is that the US personnel based there are not subject to local law enforcement, which stokes local anger when those servicemen sometimes commit serious crimes and are effectively above the law.
I was going to say something about that. Okinawa has had problems with rape.
Jurisdiction is worked out through a Status Of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between the local host nation and the US Department of Defense. Courses of action in the event of an accusation of a midemeanor or felony committed by a member of the US military are guided by the relevant SOFA. For example, my understanding was that a military member detained by the German polizei for Driving Under the Influence was entirely subject to German law enforcement and penalties. Members of the US military do not enjoy "diplomatic immunity."
@@prion42 Well in Japan it's mostly because we don't like handing over U.S. citizens to a legal system that has a 99% conviction rate and VERY sketchy legal rights. But you are right in that it causes a lot of problems and people abuse that fact to do bad things, which makes it an issue.
@@amerigo88 I was gonna say the same thing. I'm over here at Ramstein and if I do something stupid off-base, I would get slapped around twice. First by whatever German laws are applicable and then once I'd be done with that, the Air Force would have more than a few words to have with me. When you're stationed overseas, you actually have to abide by two sets of laws simultaniously.
@@glitch4583. That includes drinking laws?
Very interesting essay.
Thank you for making it for us.
Excellent and fantastic presentation. Well done. I thoroughly loved it
Remember to bring some cookies and milk to the CIA and FBI vans outside your place man. Ya know, say hi, make them feel welcome.
loool
This isnt the 80s. They dont use vans anymore. They just use the backdoor into your smartphone. Get with the times man.
Lmao reminds me of that one scene in Mindhunter where Wayne bought Bill and Holden some fast food when they were trying to trail him.
@@IsThisRain if I remember right Williams really did that for some cops following him.
@@justinpipes85
Glad they included it on the show. That scene was hilarious lol
Wendover - mentions a single airplane
Comments section - OMG HE MENTIONED AIRPLANES - WENDOVER LOVES AIRPLANES OMG
~ laughs hysterically ~
Laughs in lockheedian
@@fastflight2494 haha😂😂😂
All Americans love airplanes. It’s built into the culture
Very useful video, thank you very much
It's funny how they have like 2 dozen bases scattered around the suiz canal
Looking for this comment.
Keeping shipping lanes open is a huge part of policing the world.
Wendover: "...Ramstein Airbase in Germany"
My head: play Du Hast
Did you know that the title of that song is a play on words with you hate and you have. Funny, right
i thought about we are all live in american
Why is Rammstein so popular international?
I exposed Rammstein's Mein Herz Brennt song (which inspired me to learn German which I haven't gotten around to) as talking about satanic child sacrifice in my series with over 3,000 slides: "Proof Satan Rules The World Ergo The Bible is Right" one of the video installments of which got taken down by youtube cowering in fear to Muslim demands since I offended the religion of the black vagina that they kiss in Mecca which represents... well, if you want to know, ask.
I first heard that song from the movie How High, good times.
Wendover: *releases US bases*
North Korea: write that down WRITE THAT DOWN
HAHAHAHA
Probably one of the agents of North Korea is watching this
@@machine15 An agent of north korea watches wendover? Truly a man of culture
Well, this video aged pretty well, the international community seems to understand why these bases exist now, especially in NATO countries and the EU.
Even before then, when troops pulled US troops from a Kurdish base, Turkey moved in to attack. Allies understand why US presence can work to their advantage. RIP Kurds.
@@richardarriaga6271 it literally means they have to spend less than half on their military.
What are you talking about? US military presence started the war, Ukraine interest in allowing US military bases on its soil is what got them invaded? Do you think US would not invade Mexico if from a day to the other Mexican Government invite China to have military bases on its soil?
@@jorgejimenez8985 What military was around before 2014? Ukraine had a Russian naval base with a lease about to expire in Crimea.
@@jorgejimenez8985 delusional 🤣
Thank you for being so objective when making these videos! There are other people that would let their biases for or against America skew the video, but you do a good job of presenting all sides of the issue in a fair manner (as far as I can tell).
Finally going to sub to you, thanks again!
The reason why there are so many bases across Germany is because that's where the border of West Germany (US ally) was with East Germany (Soviet sphere of influence) during the cold war.
Makes sense.
Yeah, that was literally the "front line" of the cold war. Many bases have been closed since then due to reunification and the end of the cold war.
Not really. If you look at the map @6.02, you can see that most of the US facilities are in the south and west, and nowhere near the old inner border. After WW2 the US controlled the south of West Germany, the British controlled the north of West Germany, and the Soviets controlled East Germany. The inner border was mostly between the British sector and the Soviet sector.
@@gotham61 with a fighter jet at top speed you can fly through Germany from West to East in like 5 mins so no problem still 💁♂️
@Pieter tbf most of them are older than 30 years so 💁♂️
Holy shit, Ramstein really looks American af. I tought it was random stock footage until I saw the sign.
@AndrewBrewer917 Is it actually open to the public? However, it just looks so out of place if you know what most of Germany usually looks like. I mean the most German thing I spotted where the houses a clip or two later.
MissDatherinePierce not open to the public
@AndrewBrewer917 I thought so and was wondering a bit but then it makes sense.
The PX looks nice af.
I remember when the US left RAF Edzell a few miles up the coast from me in 1996 they held a car boot sale (yard sale to you folks) to sell anything they couldn't take home to the US and every appliance on sale had a US plug on it. It seems that when the US goes abroad they decide "Right, let's burn all this local shit and create some America up in this bitch!"
Think my dad bought (and subsequently rewired) a circular saw while I almost bought some NTSC games for the SNES.
The base in Japan being protested is actually a nature preserve because it is not bothered and protected by the us military so technically it's good for the environment
Yes, the locals asked the nature spirits living there and they all said they'd rather be under the pavement of a noodle shop or a small factory making vinyl anime figurines.
yes, the problem is mostly social (marines doing idiotic shit around the base), and economic
I’ve just watched John Pilger’s The Coming War On China which includes interesting opinions on US overseas military bases which are pretty convincing and shockingly compelling.
And Wendover Productions was never heard from again
BraedonP hahaha I was going to say the same!
Why? The video is informative in nature and doesn't take a political stance. Plus the US has strong free speech laws
M L r/woosh
M L just saying, he lives in Edinburgh
@@ml8018 source?
In the map of world US military bases the empty spaces are as interesting as the dots.
Yep, I loved how the red dots in Europe almost draw the borders of France like it's surrounded
Yes, weird how germany has dozens of bases, Utaly got the largest us navy fleet parked in napoli, and spain has a couple bases, and france has none.. Same with Algeria.. Bunch of bases around its borders on moroccan, tunisian, Niger lands, but none on it..
@@phoneInc20 not really weird actually by the time lots of these bases were created de Gaulle was president and he would never have allowed the Americans to put a base on the French territory (which included Algeria by that time), France opposed the installation of American nuclear weapons in the late 50's, and de Gaulle made us leave the integrated military command of NATO in 66,which we only rejoined in 2009
@@jungobango4815 but despite joining NATO once again, our governement still refuse to have American bases on our land.
Sinon, c'est sympa de voir d'autres français sur ces vidéos
@@alexisfights5773 oui, je désespérait un peu ^^
And imagine, this was all 2/3rds more massive in scope during the cold war era through the early 90s.
On a couple of the shots (where they showed the new buildings, Xchange, and the Commissary ) I thought, "Those buildings look like newer versions of what I used to live in". Pulled up google maps and Yep. The expanded Camp Humphreys. Man, I remember when that place was small that their sponsored officers had to slum it with us at Osan.
Not seen the video but I’ll eat my cat if there are no planes
Edit: Update, the cat is no longer going in my curry tonight
Sam saved your cat unless you're from China!
@@MohammedIqlasUddin Racist ass bitc*
He is literally called Muhammad
@@zhaojinchu9745 But Chinese people literally eat dogs And cats it's normal there
How id it taste?
Everyone's saying how Wendover loves planes when he also sure loves a good legal document.
Bro I straight up thought that plane was being loaded into a bigger plane lmao 7:27
10:50 Okinawa, U.S.A.
Funny how the Okinawans want independence too but western media cover precisely none of it.
@@jonsong4592
Don’t say crap. None of the people in Okinawa want independence.
@@yu7842 according to the Ryukyu Independence Movement, you're full of shit.
@@jonsong4592 I was born and raised up in Okinawa, so I can say with certainty that political movement you said isn’t going on in Okinawa.
@@yu7842 Yasukatsu Matsushima would disagree. Im not saying ALL okinawans want independence, but the sentiment is definitely there for some of them.
Drinking game: Take a shot everytime you see a C-130
Seve Garza ded
Im sober. Because i didn't see one. Those were C-7's
Soooo this game fun yeahhhh huh nooo i only hahd 2 shots (heavily slurred and dead)
Take a shot everytime the narrator say "The US .."
Take a shot every time he says "you see"
"We're all living in Amerika,
Amerika ist wunderbar"- Rammstein
Edit: this comment was intended to be a joke about Rammstein and America, not spark a debate about world politics lol
A man of culture, I see
You hate me.
@@tristant3662 the american culture yes, verry filthy standards, its spreading and getting worse by the day. The world is full of sin, electronic devices allowing children to get indoctrinated with wrong standards at a verry early age. Those apps and devices are made to be addictive too.
@@AFFI909 No one cares you mouth-breathing boomer, go support israel in shooting palestinian kids
Nazi Amerika these days
I would like to see a breakdown of which branch of the service has these bases. The ones at ports are probably Navy, of course. You can’t always tell the others. It would also be interesting to know related info: maybe U. S. bases.
Do you know how much I love you for putting references under your videos? A LOT 😍❤❤❤❤❤
As a non-native living in Okinawa, I've been able to experience firsthand the effects of the U.S. bases' presence on the people living here. I live in a city where a marine base sits right smack in the middle of it. Looking at an aerial photograph of the city hung inside the town hall and seeing this one ostensible piece of foreign-designated land in the middle of it is somewhat unnatural, to say the least. I'm friends with native Okinawans and Americans from both inside and outside these bases, and the situation truly is a complicated one with no real solution. Thank you so much for highlighting this one example of U.S. base presences affecting local living here in Okinawa, and for portraying it so well.
That base is being shut down and moved closer to the sea for strategic reasons. It was built before the city sprawled out to it's location.
Just watched a video on it this week.
@420 420 that can change
@420 420 Yeah, four generations ago.
@420 420 That was 75 fucking years ago
Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa - Originallt built in rural farmland. Locals set up bars and small-tent restaurants outside the gates, then other small business catering to the servicemen, and then small homes for the local workers so they could live near their businesses and keep their families.... And that outside community grew and grew until the Air Base became surrounded by a city. And somehow the Marines are at FAULT? Also, the locals complained of the noise (well, they DID decide to live next to an active airfield) and locals complained of drunken/misbehaving Marines (well, they DID open all those bars and girly-joints) and then locals complained that the base occupied valuable farmland (translate: valuable real estate for building construction) so the Marines and US Gov. offered to build an artificial land base along the coast and relocate there - but , no, that wasn't good enough.
F*** em. Those locals will be glad enough the Marines are there on-island should the SHTF with China or N.Korea.
Semper Fi, my brothers.
For those who wonder... yes, Rammstein's (the band) name is based on Ramstein Air Base, more precisely, on the 1988 Ramstein air show tragedy (they even describe it in the song Rammstein).
The double "m" was first a mistake that lead to a double entendre (as it translate to "ramming stone", a perfect way to describe their style).
@juscurious And we all know what happens when Germans tremendously increase defense spending.
And the style of US foreign policies.
@@dixonbuhtz8555 This may have been jinxed
Excellent video.
In the late '90s when I commuted through Camp Futenma to work, I happened upon a local bookstore that had a few books in English/Japanese. I read the account of a local Okinawan from WWII that detailed how the Japanese used to shoot Okinawans if they spoke Okinawan rather than Japanese. The local Okinawan High School refused to fly the Japanese flag. When Okinawans protest foreign presence they are including the now majority Japanese along with the much smaller presence (by isolated population) of Americans - equally.
A video on the logistics of the Falklands War would be great to see.
I second this. Particularly interesting fact is that the British army consumed supplies at a rate _5 times faster than the amount expected to be consumed in a limited war, and even exceeded the amount anticipated in a full-blown Warsaw Pact invasion_
Yes please!!!!
Are there airplanes?
@@MatthewAtkinson Oh mate, there are definitely aeroplanes. The Falklands saw the longest strategic bombing mission ever - the RAF flew a squadron of tankers to refuel both other air-to-air tankers and the lone Vulcan that flew down to the islands to bomb the runway.
Look up the Black Buck missions - the ultimate show of just how far the British will go say "get the fuck out".
@juscurious Funny fact... the US stablished the Military adjunta, the ones who started the war. Then they helped UK to win the war. Ah, life is a joke.
I would like to see a video on intercity buses and how they work. And how codeshare agreements and airline alliances work.
Nice Try NSA yes
great video, explanation of US drone base in Germany was my fav part! The current morality and economics with overseas military bases is dauntingly complicated. Every country(even city) has its own reasons, controversy and economy to consider while the US mulls its own specific reasons.
Wow This is an impressive list! 🤩
Next: how to win against the US Military
*Skillshare*
Vietnam
Just place some oil and use it as a decoy
Cripple their monetary currency manipulation in their own game.
@@Paws.of.Justice actually you're completely right,
Have two larger nations backing you with nukes so the us can't invade and insted has to rely on bombing,
So nukes
My 7yo just called Avengers assemble and defeated Captain James Kirk. Even kids can beat the weak to very weak US military.
Broke: The Earth has 5/6/7/whatever continents
Woke: The Earth has 6 Commands.
North-Com, South-Com, Pa-Com, Cent-Com, Euro-Com, and Afri-Com.
@@youisa1 Forgot X-Com.
Nobody lives in Antarctica, therefore it is imaginary
Your mind is so small it confuses geo-politics with geology.
@@evildead9708 Your mind is so small it takes jokes seriously.
Ayyy @12:49 is Camp Humphreys, and the closest building on the left is actually my barracks that I am in right now.
I was at Ramstein AFB for 3 years it wasn’t too much fun but it was huge
Me hearing "Rammstein" in the first 30 seconds: *oh shit*
Same, then I saw "Camp Hansen" in Japan and imagined uniformed guards standing calmly while the PA systems blast "Mmm-bop" around the base.
I just get PTSD from the air show disaster there. Good band, though. Saw them 2 years ago in Chicago.
@AndrewBrewer917 The Air Base: Ramstein. The Band: Rammstein. The difference is intentional
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-Country other that US: *EXIST*
-US Military: "It's free real estate"
Thats what the chinese do. Ohh you have houses, they are ours now. Happened here in New Zealand, now we have a massively inflated housing markets that citizens can't afford to buy in. The USA have never been a problem though.
E Hold The Chinese build big, stupid replicas of Western cities in their own country.
lebaron1939 if they got oil
@oyeahyeah Racists prefer blaming the Chinese for fairly participating in their capitalist market but not the greedy developers and agents instead.
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oh sorry, I meant to say manifest destiny
One thing you omit is that US military bases are a large part of income for the locals... American military personnel get a regular paycheck every two weeks, and a lot of that money is spent on the local economy. When I was stationed in La Maddalena Italy, most of my friends and I spent a big bulk of our paychecks in the local restaurants and stores there, not to mentioned that I rented an Italian small house for the two years I was there. So bases have a positive impact economically on the local locations they are placed in...
Fuck usa imperialist cunts
@@FelipeMarques0809 Thats one hell of a reply!
also they pay a lease, like for the example in djibouti the us pays the government 300 million every year for them to let them stay there
Ever interesting, thanks
US Military: Hippity hoppity... your lands are my property...
Napoleon I Bonaparte these countries want the US there...
@@jacobisaacs600 Correction: The governments of these countries want the US there, it's an important distinction since it's the citizens that have to live with it while the governments only stand to reap the benefits.
ベッドから出たくない。 to reap the benefits of defense? Actually the people benefit because their governments can focus on infrastructure and healthcare so I’m not sure where you’re going with that.
@@jacobisaacs600 Meaning no offense but I take it politics isn't an area you deal with all too often. Okinawans, in large part, have been unhappy with the US base for longer than I've been alive. This situation is hardly an exception to the rule, just a little light reading will reveal that it's a fairly common occurrence across the board.
Whether or not people benefit in an abstract or indirect manner is irrelevant to the point I'm making. My point was and is that the locals, the people who actually have to live in the area of a foreign base aren't always happy to and for a number of reasons. Regardless of whether you're in support of or opposed to these bases it's a reality that should be kept in mind.
@@leavesinautumn5959 "This land is your land. This land is my land." 😢 This song should refer to mainland US. We've taken it to mean "we dominate everywhere". What citizens of each country think never matters. The US must be ready to kill anywhere at anytime. Disgusting thought when this money could be used to help others.
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wow i kind of noticed that with the last few videos but I didnt realize it was a thing lol
Yeah... it is so sad how someone as smart as Wendover got addicted to planes, the world we live in...
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It gets the best of us, unfortunately.
It’s been 3 years and there have been no signs of the situation improving
@@zacharymohammadiIn fact it has gotten worse.
"Loss of Strength": the gradient may be attributed to the unnamed document. but "bases" as force projection goes back thousands of years. Base, Fort, Castle even some cities in history exist for these offensive operations.
4:27 Your map is showing a US base in Newfoundland (Eastern Canada), that base closed in 1994.
US military personnel regularly visit Argentia. What remains of the original base, mostly under ground, is being maintained at a minimal level in case it's needed again. Harmon Airforce Base, Stephenville? That's closed. Nothing left there but toxic waste.
I lived on ramstein air base it is basically a little America. Every picture you used is so nostalgic.
Ramstein was always weird to me; everyone I met from there said they never left the base. My dad was at Lakenheath for 12 years and we lived 20 miles off base. Not sure how common this is, but living on base always seemed weird to me.
Estex stfu u lil bitch
@Estex if it wasnt for the US, youd be a territory of russia by now
Just talking about things about life on these overseas bases makes me miss when I lived in Vicenza, Italy a few years ago
Estex Too bad, we’re not leaving.
Congratulations, you just won a free spot on the FBI Watchlist.
He just need another video about bricks.
this tells a lot about your country
Im not american
@@hypetrain9159 Italy
Am I the only one dying when he says ja bootie
The Philippines was a former US Coloney from 1902 to 1947, but the US Based stayed. One of my grandfather who was a Colonel said that during the Cold War the US built 2 nuclear silo but after the Cold War ended there was no news on whether it was removed or not. My grandfather died 8 years ago he never told us where it was built though.
I'm not sure if it's real or not, and even if it's real I don't know if it's still there but from what I noticed there's a good chance it is still here.
“Little or no _permanent_ U. S. personnel presence” - the key word here is “permanent”, as it’s an open secret that the way they get around that is by not having _the same individuals_ stay too long at the base.
Ørlandet in Trøndelag, Norway, is such an example of a host-country base with a large US presence.
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Oh, a men of culture i see.
Tbh, 10/10 Channel recommendation
Bringing up math channels and not saying Numberphile
IHateNumbers234
They said 1+2+3+4+...=-1/12
And you call them mathematicians?
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If you're looking for a definition for just the large bases 2:38 has a great definition for just counting MOBs
This video is a masterpiece.
Just letting you know that the Chinese government used this video on their news 2 weeks ago.
Andrew S dam he snitched out his own country
@Helios Sphere No they want somebody else to take the heat!
Yurii Cherkasov so not gonna talk about the west copying China’s grenades made literally in 1400
Not that they could do anything about it. They have zero force projection compared to the US.
Source please
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Damn 1.5 million people on that tiny island. And I thought my house was crowded
welcome to asia
I mean it’s like 90 miles across, so its not really tiny but when you factor in that so much land is used by the US, that’s still quite impressive
It's not really that dense, Manhattan is denser than that.
Macau: Am I a joke to you?
Been to Oki a bunch...no more dense than typical US cities tbh. Don’t let the video full you though...while there are a few groups that protest our presence, I have never encountered any resentment of our presence there from the local population. Great island with awesome people...Oki rocks!
good for you!
The World: We exist too America !
America: You're all America, you just don't know it yet...
They don't have a base in my country.
@Benjamin Cunningham Ah yes I know this Comrade putin and our leaders will never allow this
@@dayton2vx havent you heard Trump and Putin are best friends so yes we do. Unless i was lied too. 😂😂😂
@@dayton2vx What no base in Durkistan?
China: evil laughing
you are correct about many other hidden bases. In fact I used to work for google a few years ago. One day an engineer came by to inspect the new server building that they had built on the site that I was at. I got a chance to talk to him about how each facility is customized to its environment. Each one is environmentally friendly as possible and they try to use the area to help cool the systems. Case in point, the facilities that are located along the ocean usually use ocean water to help cool the servers while the facility I worked at processed sewage waste and used that to help cool the servers then cleaned the water and put it back in the local river, which was cleaner than the actual river water lol. So this engineer and I got to talking about all the unique bases and he said the coolest one by far is a joint military/NSA google facility in the middle of that african desert. He said it was 3000 miles away from anything and all supplies had to be helicoptered in. Highly trained staff work there in case of problems because no one is going to be able to come and help you if there is one. Remember it's a google facility so its a internet hub as well. In the middle of that freaking desert. Insane.
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@@xievub6200 I'm not sure. I'm just repeating what he said. When he said it I was stunned. I was not expecting that from him. He was quite proud of the installation. The focus of the conversation was the various facilities and how each one was custom designed for its environment. I'm assuming it was clandestine and out of reach of any jurisdiction and not military would ever look there.
Were you supposed to say this
You should do a video of places/logistics if Air Force One/Space Shuttle has to do an emergency landing outside of the continental United States
Good idea I’ll tweet wendover that
That sounds like it could be really interesting.
The Wiki article on the Shuttle says there were several military/civilian airports around the world that the US equipped with basic needs for emergency shuttle landings. However, in dire emergencies, any runway that can handle a jumbo jet could be a possibility. The shuttle was the world's heaviest glider, the final approach is the only approach, with no possibility of aborts or go-arounds.
what a great idea!
Great idea! One item on that: there's a tiny airport here in Scotland called Machrihanish, right on the west coast. It has a massively long runway, and rumour has it that's because it was extended to be an emergency strip for the space shuttle. I'd love to see if there's any truth in that. One thing that is for sure, when it was an RAF base it used to be used as a base for Navy SEALs.
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ramstein is a really nice base i live off base but went to school for 7 years cause my mom was airforce
This is an incredible video. The amount of research that has gone into this is unbelievable. Wendover just stepped up its game!
I would PAY to see another video just like this one on US bases in the US. Just to have the full picture.
In the 90s we lived at Ramstein. We had an apartment. C-3. Third floor of the C building.
Make a video of all the foreign countries military bases surrounding the United States.
You should do an H.A.I. video on the transatlantic fiber optics cable, the history of transatlantic cabling, and how they do it now.
"Some might characterize this [US Military] experience with Antarctic operations as 'convenient' in the event of any future conflict in the region."
Professor Ice Age better _watch his back._
12:31 Is he marching next to the shells?! 😂
Ramstein base is seriously big. I caught a MAC flight from the Med to DC through there with a 1 day layover. I thought I was in the States when driving around. All the road signs are in English and in miles, not kilometers. That struck me as odd. It really does feel like American soil.