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Poland Pushes For Permanent US Military Base, Offers Up To $2B
International Business Times ^ | 05/28/18 | Arathi M

Posted on 05/28/2018 8:02:26 AM PDT by Enlightened1

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To: Texas Fossil

“No one in Europe appreciates what the US did for them in WWII more than Poland.”

They end up being the only one’s who appreciate us, with the exception of the now “freed” Eastern Bloc Countries who also had the Russian Bear’s foot on them for half a century. I just want us to not be “the underpaid guards” for Western Europe, because they have, being freed of the costs of their own protection, managed to create a group of Socialist $hit hole countries that look down their noses at us!
And Trump is the ONLY PRESIDENT in my lifetime dedicated to taking the KICK ME SIGN off the backs of the American Taxpayers.


41 posted on 05/28/2018 11:52:03 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Iron Munro

“Germany has already gone over to the Dark Side.”

Gone over? No, they’ve been there all the time, just waiting for their next Hitler (or HItlerette) to show up. And I think the Hitlerette has been there for a while already in the person of Angela Merkel!


42 posted on 05/28/2018 11:55:38 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: vette6387

she doesn’t have the mustache to pull it off. She’s the pre-hitler that destroys the country and makes the germans mad enough to get nationalistic again.


43 posted on 05/28/2018 11:57:09 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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To: vette6387

Yes, pretty true.

The Globalist pukes have been around since Woodrow Wilson.

Headshake.

And they HATE President Trump, he is destroying their little play ground. I so LOVE IT!

The US never has to apologize to anyone. Much less to the Euro Weenie Leaders in the EU.


44 posted on 05/28/2018 11:57:42 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Monorprise
Why not just move the German bases? What has Germany done for us lately?

Germany hosts our army and air force, and though they sometimes object to what we do with those forces, they don't interfere.

Besides is not Poland on the eastern border of NATO a better location for a military base?

No. It's too close to Russia air bases and it doesn't have the road, rail and port infrastructure that Germany has. Germany is a very powerful location.

Now if you want to talk about an additional base placed in Poland, that would be a different conversation.

45 posted on 05/28/2018 11:59:45 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: SunkenCiv

And didn’t some lickspittle from the EU (or was it Merkel) crowing the other day that America had “forsaken them,” and that it was up to them to take care of their own safety going forward? Trump should tell Jean Claude Junker (good name) and that Italian b!tch, Federica Mogherini, who’s in charge of immigration to go take a flying f*ck at a rolling doughnut!


46 posted on 05/28/2018 12:04:37 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Gritty

“Well, I suppose a lot of Germans were not fans of us kicking the snot out of them and occupying them... “

But let’s not leave out completely rebuilding their infrastructure, and basic industries, while we let ours go untouched until we went out of business because of modern industries in Krautville like steelmaking crushing us.


47 posted on 05/28/2018 12:08:44 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: vette6387
True.

It seemed like a smart idea at the time and it probably was. But now, a new generation with many Leftists and Greenies have taken over. No doubt a lot of Germans (especially in the older generations that remember the Soviet Union) appreciate what we have done. But like most soft socialists, they follow their emotions and not their brains.

If I had nothing to read and watch but the German media and other "news" outlets like CNN International, I would probably feel the same way as well. At least that was my impression the last time I was over there.

48 posted on 05/28/2018 12:39:35 PM PDT by Gritty (Leftists make no bones about what they think of you. They hate you. Act accordingly.-Kurt Schlichter)
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To: Enlightened1

The US needs to pull out of ALL foreign bases.

AS a taxpayer, I am tired of paying for the defense of every other nation too damned lazy to protect itself.

If they get run over, tough.


49 posted on 05/28/2018 12:48:50 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Gritty

“If I had nothing to read and watch but the German media and other “news” outlets like CNN International, I would probably feel the same way as well. At least that was my impression the last time I was over there. “

But isn’t that the same thing we face here? If you watch anything other than Fox News, you are fed a steady diet of lies about what’s going on in DC.


50 posted on 05/28/2018 12:56:22 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: vette6387
Yup.

That's why we have much the same problem here!

But at least we have Donald Trump and that is a game-changer.

51 posted on 05/28/2018 1:05:28 PM PDT by Gritty (Leftists make no bones about what they think of you. They hate you. Act accordingly.-Kurt Schlichter)
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To: Enlightened1
The US has already deployed a unit to Poland under NATO: a squadron of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment.

NATO Enhanced Forward Presence

52 posted on 05/28/2018 1:49:29 PM PDT by matt1234 (Jan. 20, 2017: the national nightmare ended.)
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To: Enlightened1

Can hardly blame them. They have been victims of Russia and Germany many times before. The situation is no better these days with the EU threatening them from one side, and the expansionist Russians from the other.


53 posted on 05/28/2018 3:17:06 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: txrefugee

Great plan. By having our troops in Germany all we are doing is shoring up their policy of being invaded by Syrians.


54 posted on 05/28/2018 3:18:10 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: aumrl

And not over run with Muslims...


55 posted on 05/28/2018 3:19:49 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Enlightened1

“Anyhow, how about we sell them our weapons and provide training instead like we do with Israel?”

You hit the target. First provide training wheels to gain proficiency and skill before sending the kid out on the street with his bicycle.


56 posted on 05/28/2018 4:40:47 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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