Foreign governments and movements have repeatedly forced U.S. base closures historically

Evidence

Elsewhere, movements led by ordinary citizens and politicians alike have closed or blocked bases or won significant concessions from U.S. forces over the decades. In the aftermath of World War II, U.S. troops (along with Soviet and other foreign forces) were forced to withdraw from bases in Austria as part of the declaration of Austrian neutrality, which included a constitutional ban on foreign bases. Newly independent, decolonized nations such as Morocco, Trinidad, and Libya forced the closure of bases during the 1960s. In 1966, Charles de Gaulle ended most of France’s involvement in NATO and ordered the removal of U.S. bases within a year’s time. American bases were the source of major controversy in Turkey throughout the 1960s and 1970s, prompting major protests, strikes by base employees, and bombings and kidnappings by extremists; in 1975, U.S. troops withdrew from all but two bases there. Elsewhere during these turbulent decades, the military was forced to vacate some of its bases in Japan, Taiwan, Ethiopia, and Iran. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 944