US military bases are vectors of violence against the indigenous population as both infrastructure of occupation and a warehouse for violent men.
This is especially true in the case of sexual violence against women and LGBT people.
The US military has never been and will never be “diverse” and “inclusive” in any way shape or form.
All its bases need to be closed.
This is absolutely true. One of the things that kept coming up when I talked to LGBT+ people in Korea that did sex work or were simply cruising and got abused by the US troops stationed there, was that there was no recourse from the Korean police or the US military disciplinary arms. Further, Republic of Korea has a long history of leftist actions being put down by violent dictators that either got outright support or blessings from US military stationed in Korea (Gwangju Resistance is the biggest one). We cannot have justice, be it economic, gender, or LGBT+, with the US military stationed in Korea.
As a quick aside, this is also true for Japan.
we need the USA out of Northeast Asia, and we need it out now.
It’s more sick to learn that inside those camps, it’s build to accommodate americans soldiers. This thread reports how it’s inside via illustrations since it’s illegal to take pictures
