Since they won’t act like allies, and since we are the ones that (up ’til now) have been their main defenders….our military should leave the country. Pack up all our materiel, all our people, and all our equipment. Take it somewhere else.
And level all the infrastructure built by the US at the airbases that we share with them.
If we built a runway, leave it as broken and unusable pavement. If we built a building, leave it as a pile of rubble. Remove everything of value: stocks of weapons, materiel, spares, bombs, fuel and food.
Leave it as it was before the US improved it. If Spain didn’t build it then leave it as unusable. Let them build their own airbase and other facilities around the country.
If they can’t play properly, we should take all that we built (and leave them NOTHING) and go elsewhere….Poland isn’t actually all that far away and they would love to have the US based there.
One base at a time, we should dismantle and destroy the infrastructure built by the United States such that there is no value left from what we built for our use that we share with Spain.
Not only the loss of the base, but the economic loss alone would devastate the local economy.
The lesson will not be lost on the other countries.
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Can we just get out of NATO altogether? Pack up and leave? I personally don’t care about destroying the facilities, that will happen by itself in a few years if not maintained.
Screw being the world’s policeman, spending our blood and treasure for people who hate us. Goodbye and good riddance!
Just like we did in Puerto Rico, and should do in Hawaii.
Whoa, that`s kinda mean spirited…..
Further, I couldn`t agree more that we leave NATO….if defense of their people is important enough, then they`ll do it.
The age of embassies is over. In the past they were important to convey information; to serve as spy nests, etc. Today technology has rendered all this unnecessary.