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To: Mariner

The worlds a bitch when your leader is a bitch.
What are we going to do in that circumstance?
Unleash the nukes? Not happening.

Deploy our armored divisions?
Nope, now only deployed at 15% of our 1989 troop levels, and we have closed hundreds of bases and radar stations.
I believe that we have 40,000 or so troops left in Germany but a large number of that are not combat troops.
The average EU country spends 1.7% of GNP on defense and they are in the middle of military drawdowns.
England does have about 20,000 troops left in Europe.

War? Hardly, unless you are going to use strategic nukes.


23 posted on 03/27/2014 4:25:17 PM PDT by bill1952 (taxes don't hurt the rich, they keep YOU from becoming rich.)
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To: bill1952

And an air war in the Ukraine could be a potential disaster.
Russian air power isn’t exactly 3rd world status.


24 posted on 03/27/2014 4:27:43 PM PDT by bill1952 (taxes don't hurt the rich, they keep YOU from becoming rich.)
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