By clinging to American primacy through force and intimidation, Donald Trump is, ironically, undermining US global power. A saboteur trying to subvert US interests from the inside could hardly do better than what he’s accomplished through sheer incompetence.
Instead you could just like… cancel the leases? I see this “rise up” sentiment repeated a ton and it just screams that people don’t understand how foreign military bases actually work. Like, rise up to get your government to just ask the US to leave. For that too, most US military bases aren’t forts or anything, you could effectively neutralize them just by blocking the beer truck from making it’s deliveries. There’s very little the troops stationed there can do to stop that besides call in the host country to deal with the problem (which is invariably what happens).
The real threats are the five-eyes intelligence gathering facilities - but there’s no government in the world that’s going to ask those to be removed, I can’t imagine what would be persuading them not to…
Yeah I would always rather see the people rising up, and a worldwide revolution would be the most effective way to make real lasting change. But yeah that’s pretty solidly a romantic fantasy at this point. That’s all it keeps boiling down to. No war but class war.