Posted on 06/29/2022 3:25:06 AM PDT by Cathi
The US will significantly increase its military deployments in Europe with additional troops and weaponry, as part of the largest scaling up of Nato defences since the cold war in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The US will establish a permanent headquarters for its 5th Army Corps in Poland, send 5,000 additional troops to Romania and increase rotational deployments in the Baltic states, Biden said, as part of efforts to stiffen Nato’s first line of defences against possible attack.
Two squadrons of US F-35 fighter aircraft will be sent to the UK, Biden added, in addition to stationing air defence systems in Italy and Germany and increasing the number of US naval destroyers to Spain to six from four.
The new deployments will be in addition to the more than 100,000 US troops currently stationed in Europe, which had already increased by about 20,000 since Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine four months ago.
The US deployments come as Nato prepares to agree new defence plans that will increase more than seven-fold the number of troops on high alert to respond to an invasion to more than 300,000 from 40,000 currently.
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Russia has a relatively small population.
Russia has a relatively small economy.
Russia’s military has not covered itself in glory in Ukraine.
Why would Russia now pick a fight with NATO? Does anyone think that Russia is going to invade Western Europe?
People should understand that something else is going on. Maybe WE are picking a fight with THEM? We are the prime movers here — do we understand our motives? We delude ourselves if we think that we are the Good Guys.
I don’t th8nk there’s a fight.
Just a mutually agreed upon noisy occupation.
As for the alleged NATO buildup, I’m wondering it’s really just a cover for money laundering to the EU.
Its PIIGS problem is about to go nuclear, I suspect.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.
The enemy suffers significant losses.
◽️During the offensive operations in the area of the Lisichansk oil refinery, heavy losses were inflicted on the 10th mountain assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine . According to the captured servicemen of this brigade, the 108th battalion was completely destroyed. Of the 350 people of this unit , only 30 military personnel remained.
◽️ In the units of the 115th mechanized, 79th airborne assault and 25th airborne brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operating in the Lisichansk direction , the food situation is critical . Numerous cases of abandonment of positions and desertion of military personnel are recorded due to hunger .
◽️Near the village of Pitomnik, Kharkiv region , as a result of a Russian artillery attack, up to a hundred militants of the Nazi formation “Kraken” and about 10 units of military equipment were destroyed. The command of the militants decided to leave their positions and withdraw the remnants of the unit to the city of Kharkov.
Empire is crumbling but yeah, let’s keep sending troops into the blackhole of Europe and elsewhere.....
And just how is Dementia Joe going to pay for all this massive new expenditure with the US already over $30 Trillion in debt?
“Empire is crumbling but yeah, let’s keep sending troops into the blackhole of Europe and elsewhere.....”
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
Meanwhile with the mandate for vaccinations ongoing in the US military, retention is way down, and the DoD has "relaxed" new recruit criteria to not even have a GED because new recruitment is down in double digit percentages. Even the kids don't want to be fodder for Biden's new world order.
Yeah, we haven’t been the good guys for some time. It broke my heart to come to that conclusion, but here we are.
China's taking over South American but yeah, let's fight wars in Ukraine... (land of money laundering for the World's 'elites' and Joe and Hunter's private 'great jobs' for nothing country.
“And just how is Dementia Joe going to pay for all this massive new expenditure with the US already over $30 Trillion in debt?”
$200 billion from us for the global international programs for poor countries for climate control, gender equity, etc.
And brand new green proposals for energy.
Meanwhile our border being invaded. Maybe some day we won’t be the world’s policeman. Donald Trump started to fix that. But Biden may get us into WW-III.
China owns BidenIdiot for starters so they a non-issue to this lame ass administration...
Maybe some day we won’t be the world’s policeman.”
Well, when the U.S. has 750 military bases in 80 different countries and, according to the FT article 191 in Germany alone, I would say you have a long wait for ending our role as “the world’s policeman” or “the world’s dictator” which is how many countries see it...:-)
...and to Hell with our southern border.
Globalist army funded by US DOLLARS
I truly don’t think there are any Good Guys here. But one thing is for sure. Russia is the Bad Guy. It was Putin who sent tanks rolling across an international border. He started all the killing.
Having said that, I agree with you that Russia is no threat to NATO. So why are we beefing up our forces there? And why is NATO expanding its rapid-response force?
The whole thing seems unnecessarily provocative.
“So why are we beefing up our forces there ?”
Could it be for a full scale assault in Ukraine ? Don’t know, just asking. Russians will do their usual sabre rattling but will get crushed in a matter of days.
With the additional EU supplied long range rocket systems, when do the attacks on Moscow start?
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