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So that prompted me to try and look up which countries don't have U.S. troops. Came up with: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/us-troop-prese

by floxy 3y ago

So that prompted me to try and look up which countries don't have U.S. troops. Came up with: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/us-troop-presence-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/us-troop-... Which says there is no presence in only these countries: Venezuela French Guiana Ivory Coast Libya Western Sahara Guinea-Bissau Eritrea Lesotho Eswatini Syria Iraq Iran Afghanistan North Korea Vanuatu New Caledonia Falkland Islands ...Don't know how accurate that is, since it says there are 38 US troops in Russia? Maybe they're all moonlighting as diplomats?

jopsen 3y ago
Maybe they are counting embassy security..
- floxy 3y ago
  Could be
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AlexErrant 3y ago
> Data include personnel who are assigned to the State Department and Embassies overseas.
actionfromafar 3y ago
In that case the list is basically all countries without a US embassy? And aren’t there US troops in Iraq still?
jandrewrogers 3y ago
Embassies are guarded by the US Marine Corp.
bouncycastle 3y ago
I think these might be the marine embassy guards, which would make sense since the us doesn't have embassies in these countries, but it does have one in Russia. https://www.marines.com/resources/marine-security-guard---embassy-duty.html https://www.marines.com/resources/marine-security-guard---em...
morepork 3y ago
That map could do with a logarithmic scale to its colour coding. Australia with 2k+ troops is the same colour as all the countries with ~10
iudqnolq 3y ago
That list is wrong. At first glance the Vatican should be on it, the Falkland Islands shouldn't (not being a country), and Syria shouldn't. This very attack was initially believed to have been against one of the US military bases in Syria. As others have pointed out marine embassy guards exist. Many countries, including the US, also assign military attachés as diplomatic personnel. A better metric is countries with a US base or cooperative security location. There are 80, or about 40% of all countries. Still high, but more more plausible. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/10/infographic-us-military-presence-around-the-world-interactive https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/10/infographic-us-mili...
fabrice_d 3y ago
French Guiana and New Caledonia are French territories, not countries. They have no US consulate (go to Suriname for French Guiana and to Fidji for New Caledonia).
standardUser 3y ago
Those last two are not sovereign nations, nor are Western Sahara or French Guiana. Otherwise, that mostly reads like a list of nations that lack normalized diplomatic relations with the US, hence no embassy staff. Except for Vanuatu, which is in the process of getting a US embassy. EDIT: As others pointed out, Syria and Iraq do have US troops. All together I'd say this is a pretty terrible source!
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crossroadsguy 3y ago
That page shows no presence no presence in United States either. And oh well it did show no presence in Afghanistan. So that's there.
simonblack 3y ago
There are US troops in Iraq. In fact Iraq is trying to get them out, without success.(so far) There are US troops in Syria. Al Tanf and the whole area where the oil is to the east of the Euphrates River.

by floxy 3y ago

jopsen 3y ago

Maybe they are counting embassy security..

floxy 3y ago
Could be

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AlexErrant 3y ago

> Data include personnel who are assigned to the State Department and Embassies overseas.

actionfromafar 3y ago

In that case the list is basically all countries without a US embassy? And aren’t there US troops in Iraq still?

jandrewrogers 3y ago

Embassies are guarded by the US Marine Corp.

bouncycastle 3y ago

I think these might be the marine embassy guards, which would make sense since the us doesn't have embassies in these countries, but it does have one in Russia. https://www.marines.com/resources/marine-security-guard---embassy-duty.html https://www.marines.com/resources/marine-security-guard---em...

morepork 3y ago

That map could do with a logarithmic scale to its colour coding. Australia with 2k+ troops is the same colour as all the countries with ~10

iudqnolq 3y ago

That list is wrong. At first glance the Vatican should be on it, the Falkland Islands shouldn't (not being a country), and Syria shouldn't. This very attack was initially believed to have been against one of the US military bases in Syria. As others have pointed out marine embassy guards exist. Many countries, including the US, also assign military attachés as diplomatic personnel. A better metric is countries with a US base or cooperative security location. There are 80, or about 40% of all countries. Still high, but more more plausible. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/10/infographic-us-military-presence-around-the-world-interactive https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/10/infographic-us-mili...

fabrice_d 3y ago

French Guiana and New Caledonia are French territories, not countries. They have no US consulate (go to Suriname for French Guiana and to Fidji for New Caledonia).

standardUser 3y ago

Those last two are not sovereign nations, nor are Western Sahara or French Guiana. Otherwise, that mostly reads like a list of nations that lack normalized diplomatic relations with the US, hence no embassy staff. Except for Vanuatu, which is in the process of getting a US embassy. EDIT: As others pointed out, Syria and Iraq do have US troops. All together I'd say this is a pretty terrible source!

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crossroadsguy 3y ago

That page shows no presence no presence in United States either. And oh well it did show no presence in Afghanistan. So that's there.

simonblack 3y ago

There are US troops in Iraq. In fact Iraq is trying to get them out, without success.(so far) There are US troops in Syria. Al Tanf and the whole area where the oil is to the east of the Euphrates River.