Posted on 10/31/2016 1:48:52 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Norway has been warned by a senior Russian politician that it could now be a nuclear target after it allowed for the deployment of 330 US Marines.
Frants Klintsevich, a deputy chairman of Russia's defence and security committee, said the deployment of US Marines at Værnes was part of a US build-up and made Norway fair game in the event of a nuclear confrontation.
Mr Klintsevich told Russia's TV2 channel the Kremlin viewed the 330 Marines in Norway as a direct military threat.
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BTTT
We have always done a ton of stuff with Norway. When I was a Marine, we went there with two regiments for NATO type exercises. That’s way more than 350 men.
They;re not going to nuke Norway. There already marines there. I was in the Mountain and Arctic warfare cadre, and there has always been a presence in Norway, and yes we we saw the Russians and they saw us on their so called fishing trawlers.
read my post 6. Agreed.
It’s just me, but the picture would make me say “What happened to VN, Cambodia or Laos? At least I could take my shirt off there.”
Looks like Europe will be whining for help in the future...
It’s a training deployment. The USMC had the Nordic AO as an area of responsibility during the Cold War. We’ve been sending Marines there to train for cold weather and alpine conditions for decades now.
President Trump would order a Carrier Strike Group (or two) off the waters of Finland upon hearing such a threat.President Pantsuits would display another “reset” button and secretly (no live mics around) promise nothing but flexibility...for a $50 million donation to the Clinton Crime Family Foundation.
I HATE misleading titles.
this is nothing.
of course any place where US soldiers are is going to be added to the list to be destroyed.
if nowway gets nuke, pretty much everyone gets nuked because it would be a world war and then we can see beautiful flashes of light and a mushroom cloud before being vaporized
and then we can see beautiful flashes of light and a mushroom cloud before being vaporized
;-)
deploying CVNs in the Baltic is not a good idea.
NNNOOOO! I need my lutefisk!!!
Russia, just shut up. Fools! Nuke???? There would be an empty hole where Russia was.
Trump for President,
Has Russia yet developed a bomb that just gets the Jihadi types?
It’s not just 330 marines, it’s the forward positioning of war stores. For the riskiest it would make sense to make sure that stuff never gets into action. Better yet, they could just give it all a nice thorough coating of a persistent nerve agent.
the dems will try anything to deflect ‘uncomfortable’ questions about their treasonous actions
Once in a lifetime view!!
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