US Marines seek presence in Norway amid Russian tensions

CNN ^ | 10/18/2016 | Jamie Crawford

[tekrat]

Norway may soon host a rotational force of US Marines -- a move that could send a chill down Russian President Vladimir Putin's spine.

The American request, confirmed in a statement from the commanding officer of Marine forces in Europe, comes as tensions between the US and Russia are increasing amid the humanitarian disaster in Syria and US assertions of Russian involvement in cyber hacks on American political organizations and individuals.

[TigersEye]

Your brain is borscht. I don’t know about any other thread.

[1rudeboy]

You are finished, here also. You didn’t recognize the quotation marks in my comment #7, and your comments are becoming even more incoherent. As I mentioned earlier, I’ll back off and let the clown parade begin.

[map]

“...a move that could send a chill down Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spine.”

Who writes this dribble?

[Always A Marine]

Much ado about very little. For decades, the Marine Corps has pre-positioned vehicles, armor, heavy weapons and associated equipment, supplies and ammunition for a full Marine Expeditionary Brigade. These are stored and maintained in mountain caves in central Norway awaiting marriage to “fly-in” USMC units from Camp Lejeune, MCAS Cherry Point and MCAS Beaufort, and subsequent transport northward by sea for the defense of northern Norway. This is a purely defensive mission, and is so limited by the MEB’s size as well as the region’s terrain. The MEB is a hindrance to any Russian attack, but poses no threat to Russia itself. Frequent NATO exercises practice a portion of this capability. (All of this information is unclassified and readily available from numerous sources.)

[Fitzy_888]

What is lost or gained in Norway, other than hot blondes.

Recalculating...yah lets do it!

[riverdawg]

Fracking was done in spite of, not because of, the Obama administration. The Saudis began increasing their oil output five or six years ago to hurt Russia’s ability to meddle in the Middle East. And, by the way, Reagan enlisted Saudi help to increase oil output and destabilize the Soviet economy in the early 1980s.

[realcleanguy]

Actually Fracking ramped up in 2009. 7 years ago, before Saudis, who worked with Obama, to break Russia. its called economic warfare. And, Reagans dead

[TigersEye]

There is some irony in the fact that a segment of the FReeper population likes to crow about Putin’s “chess” moves, but likes to disparage ours.

I did recognize that there were not quotation marks around 'ours' in you post which means you meant it seriously. Or you're too stupid to understand punctuation.

Every post you made after #7 was the height of incoherence, clown.

[grey_whiskers]

Only if Putin nukes red states.

[grey_whiskers]

Dude, that was, like, 50 years ago.

I believe we are still using some of the same individual B-52 airframes, however.

[grey_whiskers]

What is lost or gained in Norway, other than hot blondes.

"You can always tell a Norwegian, but you can't tell her much."

[Mr. Jeeves]

Millions of regular middle class Americans will die, so the Democrats can hide their sins

The people who own and operate the Democratic Party today would call that a win-win.

[1rudeboy]

Blow me. When I typed "our," I meant "our." And you should have understood. Who is stupid, again?

[TigersEye]

Oh, look, it’s Madonna!

Sorry, stupid is not knowing how to write and expecting others to pick up your slack. In fact that’s a liberal’s kind of stupid.

[Mr. M.J.B.]

Come to daddy.

[1rudeboy]

Do want me to diagram my comment #7 or simply rewrite it with smaller words, and in crayon?

[Wallace T.]

In a nuclear war, major urban areas would be targeted. The bulk of the human losses would be in Democrat-controlled strongholds. Moderate upstate New York and conservative western Virginia would receive little impact if Manhattan, Washington, DC, and the Hampton Roads area were attacked, nerve centers of the financial industry, government, and the Navy, respectively. Destroy a few major cities, and the United States becomes a one party country. The main fight would be between the RINOs/GOP-e and the conservative and populist opposition.

[TigersEye]

I don’t care what you do, kid.

[1rudeboy]

Why don't you show me how little you care and stop replying? Because you indicate the opposite, genius. And even you should be capable of that--why do I have to point it out to someone of such vast intellectual capacity?

[TigersEye]

I said I don’t care what you do I didn’t say that I wanted to be rude.
Your neurotic need to get responses from others should be enabled by all means.