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Trump wants to withdraw 20,000 troops from Europe
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Posted on 01/23/2025 7:15:28 AM PST by Tench_Coxe

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To: Cronos

LOL I am willing to give Poland a pass on this but didn’t they put in an uber-liberal oppressive government over the last few years?


21 posted on 01/23/2025 8:02:23 AM PST by Skwor
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To: Tench_Coxe

Sending a message to Zelenskyy would be my take on this announcement, it if is true.


22 posted on 01/23/2025 8:02:26 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: FLT-bird

Even though Turkey is a strategic location for us, drawdown the bases in Turkey as well as they are not really an ally.


23 posted on 01/23/2025 8:03:54 AM PST by grcuster
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To: Tench_Coxe

Let them defend themselves.

They’ve used the money saved from defense to expand their welfare systems.


24 posted on 01/23/2025 8:05:38 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Tench_Coxe

America First.

The Euroweenies can pound sand.


25 posted on 01/23/2025 8:05:54 AM PST by Biblebelter
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To: Tench_Coxe

move them to the border!


26 posted on 01/23/2025 8:11:03 AM PST by Mr. K (no consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

That’s what I call a good start.


27 posted on 01/23/2025 8:36:10 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
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To: Tench_Coxe

How will they ever run their socialist virtue camps (countries) if we don’t subsidize their protection.


28 posted on 01/23/2025 8:37:37 AM PST by Track9 (Make haste slowly. )
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To: Tench_Coxe

put all 20,000 of them on the border with Mexico


29 posted on 01/23/2025 8:39:31 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: TheDon

Amen! It’s time the US set a new course in foreign policy and accept the Cold War is over. We need to be splitting Russia away from China. We need to rebuild our navy and set America first policies instead of the worn out and no longer relevant post-WWII foreign policies.


30 posted on 01/23/2025 8:54:27 AM PST by sarge83
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To: BobL

Increased defence spending AND illegal useless migrants the f out of our countries? Yes please.

Can’t see it happening though whilst European voters are mostly normies and the leaders themselves are personally unaffected by their stupid policies.


31 posted on 01/23/2025 9:04:35 AM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: Cronos

Your #17....I agree. There are many in Europe that side with the US especially now with Trump back.
France and Germany excluded.


32 posted on 01/23/2025 9:08:56 AM PST by rrrod (6)
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To: Cronos

A logical and reasoned perspective.

I would like to be able to support the Eastern European nations (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Baltic States). Unfortunately, keeping troops forward deployed in these states requires the logistical infrastructure that is in Germany and the UK, and I am really not interested in defending those two basket cases. So its really “all or nothing”. And I’m leaning towards “nothing.”


33 posted on 01/23/2025 9:31:47 AM PST by happyathome
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To: grcuster

and for god’s sake, pull our nukes out of Turkey.


34 posted on 01/23/2025 10:48:11 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

ESPECIALLY SINCE MUSLIMS ARE SO PREVALENT THERE NOW.


35 posted on 01/23/2025 11:04:29 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: happyathome

When President Trump brought back V Corps he moved its European headquarters that used to be in Germany, to Poland.


36 posted on 01/23/2025 11:18:28 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Tench_Coxe

Negotiating tactic to Putin?


37 posted on 01/23/2025 12:18:17 PM PST by Az Joe (We can't spare President Trump; He fights!)
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To: ansel12

Interesting, didn’t know that. I think we still rely heavily on Ramstein and other facilities in Germany for logistics though, no? Or maybe we’re phasing those down?


38 posted on 01/23/2025 2:20:37 PM PST by happyathome
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To: happyathome

I don’t currently know all the changes, but here is a link for Poland.

https://www.gov.pl/web/national-defence/increasing-the-us-military-presence-in-poland


39 posted on 01/23/2025 2:29:26 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Skwor

Europe is many countries and Slovqk culture is quite different from Dutch for instance


40 posted on 01/24/2025 12:30:10 AM PST by Cronos
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