The spreadsheet (source here) literally says the number of sites as of 30 September 2024. Do you understand that "site" and "military base" are different things? Here are their definitions if you want to play illiterate. A foreign site in this context can be any foreign property run by the DoD, including e.g. an office building. In your version of events, the Congressional Research Service says it's 128 as of mid-2024, WBW using an extremely lax definition of what constitutes the US operating a military base arrived at 844, and I'm supposed to believe the CRS and the DoD differ by nearly 10x and that the WBW totally missed this public report showing that they came up with less than 3/4 of the actual number...

... Is what I would say if you weren't completely misreading this spreadsheet anyway. 1143 represents the "grand total" of "land-only sites" in the US, US Territories, and overseas combined.

You're. Just. Lying. Stop being disingenuous or fuck off.