America, Britain and a handful of other military powers have a global network of bases that have existed for decades and are mostly legacies of empire, the second world war and the cold war.
"legacies of empire" lmao. "We're not building new bases, just continuing to occupy 800 existing ones, so that totes makes our imperialism okay guys!"
They're trying their damn hardest to conjure up some sort of whataboutism to throw at people who point this out
Precisely, bot
those countries WANT those bases there!
Whereas China forced the countries to let them possibly consider propositioning them
"legacies of empire" lmao. "We're not building new bases, just continuing to occupy 800 existing ones, so that totes makes our imperialism okay guys!"