Today marked our final day in Crete before finals and the finale of the program. We spent the day doing a home run of military bases (ha) and concluded with a delicious meal by the harbor. The first base we visited was the US naval base in the region that is essential due to its ability to carry just about any aircraft and dock any ship including aircraft carriers. The interesting part of this base was not just the tour but the lesson we received about US foreign policy, more specifically the lack of change from the Obama days to the days of Trump. The base just finished a construction project to expand its capacity and has been approved for further work; this only shows the escalation of US intervention instead of US withdrawal from the region like President Trump promised on the campaign trail. This goes back to Geopolitics and how essential a presence is in order to secure the region and all of its resources. Next we went to a NATO missile testing site. I believe that the site could really be used and intended as a defensive structure rather than just a testing site.
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