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had
deployed more U.S. forces to Australia as part of the effort to intimidate
China;
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had
pressured the Philippines to re-admit U.S. forces to their soil, including the
Subic Bay Naval Base, years after the people of the Philippines had successfully
gotten their government to finally get U.S. forces out of their country after
more than a century of U.S. colonialism;
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had
begun work on a new naval base, jointly with the South Korean government, on
Jejun Island, against the will of the island's residents and dangerously off the
coast of North Korea and close to China, for U.S. missile-carrying
destroyers;
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had
begun negotiations with the government of Vietnam for U.S. forces to be based at
former U.S. bases in what was once South Vietnam, again, dangerously close to
China;
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had
still continued to fund, at more than $250 billion per year, the more than 1,000
U.S. military bases around the globe, most of them in countries whose people no
longer want U.S. forces there polluting their air, land and water and disrupting
their lives;
- had still continued to deploy U.S. fleets on and under every ocean on earth, including 11 aircraft carrier strike forces, with each aircraft carrier alone costing more than 2 billion dollars and the Navy wanting more of them built, while no other "rival" nation has more than ONE aircraft carrier;
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had
continued to ask for increases in the nuclear weapons budget (now more than $50
billion per year) decades after the Cold War ended;
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had
supported the undemocratic military coup in Honduras as well as the one in
Paraguay, both removing popular, democratically-elected presidents and replacing
them with military dictatorships friendly to U.S. "interests" (corporate and
military);
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had
ignored the horrors, political and natural, in Haiti, with the political ones
mostly due to U.S. interference there for decades;
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