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SWBTATTReg

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1. Overreach? Just how many military bases does the US have on US soil? I expect hundreds,
Fri May 5, 2023, 11:50 AM
May 2023

if not more...750 bases overseas, and I couldn't rapidly find how many there are in the US, but I suspect that it is at least dozens, if not more. I do know that this pertains to foreigners, but w/ companies buying each other right and left, the world over, this would be an administrative nightmare, e.g., lets say Boeing has a plant near a US base (very likely), and a company in England (very unlikely a company would be allowed to buy Boeing anyways), then think of what Boeing would have to do, sell off its assets near each of the bases, etc.

A mess...an administrative mess I think.

They did something like this around Area 51/Groom Lake, where the authorities bought up all of the land around that supposedly secret base, but that was in a very isolated area, not inhabited by a lot of businesses or people...

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