The United States commonly pays host nations rent for bases

Evidence

Another exclusion from the OCS is money paid to other countries whose land the Pentagon occupies. Although a few countries pay the United States to subsidize our bases, far more common, according to the base expert Kent Calder, “are the cases where the United States pays nations to host bases.” Though it is not officially framed as such, we can think of this effectively as a form of rent. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 626