Comment by dragonwriter

> Japan, Germany, are effectively still occupied.

No, they aren't. Having allied forces deployed on your soil by mutual agreement is not occupation.

> Once a US base gets established in your territory, you can never get it out.

There are quite a long list of counterexamples; the US has closed lots of overseas bases (both in countries that remain on good terms with the US and in those where the relationship soured.)

> Just ask the Iraqi's.

"Iraqis", and the US closed large numbers of Iraqi bases in the 2020-2021 drawdown and the US and Iraq are currently (last I checked) in discussions on a complete drawdown of US military presence which would close the remaining bases.