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> But the US not being allowed to use the bases it pays and maintains for Spain makes it questionable why it does so in the first place. Why lie like this? I linked the agreement; the US doesn't maintain everything. "Each Party shall bear the costs of operation and maintenance of services and installations, or parts thereof, referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article which it uses exclusively, as well as the identifi…
The United States has never activated article 5. Get your facts straight before attempting to use an LLM to reply to me. The coalition for Afghanistan was voluntary. This isn't even that, it's just flying our planes over Spain's airspace. Even as a joint contributor I see no reason for the US to pay for bases it's never going to be allowed to use.
Which isn't the situation being imposed by Spain. They're being told they can't use the airspace for one specific military action. They maintain use of their bases in other ways (training, presumably ship refueling, maintenance, etc). They may be able to use the airspace for _other_ military actions in the future.