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EU moves to speed troop deployments in and outside Europe
Associated Press ^ | Nov 10, 2017 8:12 AM EST

Posted on 11/10/2017 6:21:35 PM PST by Olog-hai

The European Union is moving to lift barriers to the rapid deployment of the 28 nations’ armies to confront aggressors within Europe or abroad.

Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc, unveiling the plan Friday, said that “we need to be able to react effectively to internal and external crisis situations.”

The aim is to upgrade infrastructure like bridges, roads and runways that can’t handle heavy military equipment and cut customs and administrative red tape, which cause delays, higher costs and leave Europe vulnerable to attack. …

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: euarmy; eussr; fourthreich; lebensraum; rapiddeployment; rop

1 posted on 11/10/2017 6:21:35 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
> The aim is to upgrade infrastructure like bridges, roads and runways... <

Better that they should be blocking bridges, roads and runways. Because the greatest threat to Europe is not a Russian sneak attack.


2 posted on 11/10/2017 6:28:19 PM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Olog-hai

Didn’t Hitler do the same


3 posted on 11/10/2017 7:00:09 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Olog-hai

And so it starts........
History repeating itself.


4 posted on 11/10/2017 9:20:50 PM PST by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.56)
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To: Olog-hai

Germany....again.


5 posted on 11/11/2017 1:03:46 AM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.6l)
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To: Olog-hai

Infrastructure spending for EU “stimulus”.


6 posted on 11/11/2017 4:55:41 AM PST by Wuli
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