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    I just checked the bases on Google Maps. Wild how they aren’t blurred lol. I could even count US airplanes there from my lazy couch.

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      It’s a bit silly because you’ll check out the area surrounding the capital, and it’s just normal farmland, rural areas, and minor infrastructure, then out of nowhere…

      CHINESE PEOPLE’S LIBERATION ARMY.

      Or a random airport in the middle of the desert that seems inconspicuous enough… then you realize the terminals are lined up with Reaper drones.

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        Nothing beats scrolling through the same farmland to suddenly seeing PIZZAHUT SUBWAY PLANET SMOOTHIE and you realize you’re in a US Air Base.

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          Don’t forget the two separate bars. And the “small laundry”, and literal shopping mall so that airmen can go shopping after some bombing runs.

          The US is a joke.

          Also wow, we were talking about two different airports lmao. I think I stumbled across the US drone base further inland. The one by the coast is the major base.

          Also love how they leave all those Ospreys out baking in the African sun, then get surprised when they break down.

          It is a bit surreal though to look at the pier and see a bunch of US Navy, PLAN, and Russian navy ships all moored next to each other or tied to one another.