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If even half of the 49 countries with US military bases coordinated an attack on said bases, we might be able to actually start the dissolving of the American empire.
That Sun Tzu quote “don’t interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake” comes to mind.
The least effort and greatest impact will come from those countries staying quiet and letting Trump keep doing what he’s doing.
“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity” -Sun Tzu
I'm definitely no military strategist, so I'll concede that I don't know what it would really mean to "attack" those bases, especially when I would always rather see that action taken by the people of the countries rather than their governments without their consent. But is there no value to the assault on many fronts? If there was a coordinated endeavor from 25 different countries to weaken and/or remove US military bases from their land all at the same time, couldn't that split focus enough to actually weaken the US imperial grip?
Sun Tzu and Trump are both artists I guess, but in different areas.
Trump's "art" mostly involves smearing the walls with shit
Instead you could just like... cancel the leases? I see this "rise up" sentiment repeated a ton and while a romantic image, 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.