Posted on 01/14/2017 9:27:36 PM PST by Lorianne
January 20th cannot come soon enough. Instead of stepping back and trying to ensure a smooth transition for Donald Trump, Barack Obama has decided to go hog wild and use every ounce of presidential power still available to him. He has been establishing a bunch of new national monuments, he just stabbed Israel in the back at the United Nations, and on Thursday he even took time to give Joe Biden a Presidential Medal of Freedom. But one of the things that has people the most concerned is his endless provoking of Russia. Every few days it seems like Obama is doing something else to aggravate Russia, and if he wasnt leaving office in about a week I am sure that the mainstream media would be full of speculation about a possible war.
Lame duck presidents are not supposed to make risky moves like this once a new president has been elected. On Thursday, we learned that U.S. troops have been permanently deployed to Poland for the very first time
___ American soldiers rolled into Poland on Thursday, fulfilling a dream some Poles have had since the fall of communism in 1989 to have U.S. troops on their soil as a deterrent against Russia.
___Some people waved and held up American flags as U.S. troops in tanks and other vehicles crossed into southwestern Poland from Germany and headed toward the town of Zagan, where they will be based. Polands prime minister and defense minister will welcome them in an official ceremony Saturday.
Poland was once a key member of the Warsaw Pact alliance, and the Russians are quite alarmed that U.S. troops will now be stationed so close to the Russian heartland.
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I’m sure they’re happy about receiving more US taxpayer dollars to be spent in their country instead of ours.
Funny how people tend to like it when the USG showers them with your money.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
A true nightmare scenario is possible, only the Obammunist and his dipsh*t (and homosexual, in the case of the SecArmy) advisers don't realize it. Or maybe they do.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Re-hire all the generals terminated by Obama...
Thanks for the info:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3514128/posts?page=48#48
Ping to Fedora.
Roger on the generals, so long as you include as many senior NCO’s as you can get.
I’m not a person who needed a link to Wikipedia to know who Kosciuzko was.
What’s lacking is a justification for attempting to deliberately provoke a nuclear war.
True. If they are kept here for more than 20 years, that could even balance out our spendings on so called war on terror.
3,500 isn’t going to bring about a nuclear war. I think Trump is savvy enough to avoid that with a partial stand down, reducing the American presence to 800 or less. Avoiding nuclear war is hardly rocket science. What infuriates me is that Obama moved in a way designed to tie Trump’s hands, so that he’ll have to do a partial stand down, when he could have avoided the deployment altogether. Sure, the Poles are happy to see Americans, but it’s not the job of POTUS to make Poles or Israelis happy, just to be a reliable ally in a manner of his choosing. Smooth transition? Hah!
Wouldn’t mind so much about the troops if Obama had not pulled the weapons systems out of Poland early in his first term.
He's doing this for some other reason. To deflect attention from something even more egregious.
They are a deterrent. As a Polish resident, I welcome them
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