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Grant Shapps set to send 20,000 military personnel to eastern Europe
the telegram via msn ^ | 1/124/24 | Story by Daniel Martin, Nick Gutteridge • 16h

Posted on 01/15/2024 4:56:35 PM PST by RomanSoldier19

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1 posted on 01/15/2024 4:56:35 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
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Common military exercises. No reason to read into them anything more than that.


2 posted on 01/15/2024 4:57:59 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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“War, War, War how do you like it, how do you like it?”


3 posted on 01/15/2024 4:58:02 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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the post-Cold War “peace dividend” is at an end

The party is over.

4 posted on 01/15/2024 4:59:44 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: RomanSoldier19

Yet we are still dependent on the ChiComs for pharma precursors, appliances, plumbing hardware, light bulbs, machine tools, etc. I’m far more concerned with China than Russia.


5 posted on 01/15/2024 5:03:34 PM PST by posterchild
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So if England and Russia get into a hot war will NATO join in or throw England under the bus.


6 posted on 01/15/2024 5:03:36 PM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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7 posted on 01/15/2024 5:03:40 PM PST by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: ought-six

What if they had a war and no one showed up? They will have to reinstate the draft


8 posted on 01/15/2024 5:04:07 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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20,000 out of a total British Army strength of 112,000.

https://www.army.mod.uk/


9 posted on 01/15/2024 5:19:04 PM PST by FarCenter
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This might mean an escalation on the part of the UK. Who can tell? But we’ll know for sure if they reactivate the Monty Python drill team.


10 posted on 01/15/2024 5:20:24 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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“What if they had a war and no one showed up? They will have to reinstate the draft.”

I remember that chant from the 1960s. We had the draft, but the anti-war and anti-draft protesters chanted that slogan all day long: “Suppose they gave a war and no one came.”


11 posted on 01/15/2024 5:25:11 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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Grant Shapps will warn that “battle lines are being redrawn”


Nobody’s right, if everybody’s wrong.


12 posted on 01/15/2024 5:28:40 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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--- "... set to pledge to send 20,000 British military personnel to a major Nato exercise...."

Math is so difficult. 20 K soldiers is a goodly share of their "regular" soldiers. But in all, this "pledges" more than 20 percent of its ENTIRE military for an "exercise."

From the article, "figures from last month show there were 184,865 service personnel in October, including just 75,983 regular soldiers."

Sounds as if the "British empire" on which the sun never sets is experiencing a setting sun. Oh -- to be an empire again -- sigh....

13 posted on 01/15/2024 5:38:58 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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Why not deploy 20,000 troops to remove Muslim migrants from the UK instead?


14 posted on 01/15/2024 5:43:29 PM PST by montag813
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What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again yeah
It is not provocative to send 20,000 troops to the border of another county for “exercises”. Look at our border, no problem there


15 posted on 01/15/2024 5:46:55 PM PST by mcatch22 (Socialism: You're what's for dinner)
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20,000 is less than a week’s worth of illegal aliens crossing our southern border.


16 posted on 01/15/2024 5:54:16 PM PST by FarCenter
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NATO exercises go back generations, President Trump had us doing training exercises in Ukraine.


17 posted on 01/15/2024 6:17:27 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: ought-six

Achilles shrugged.
Like Agamemnon taking Achilles love, taking his passion, reason for fighting. The “Progressives” have marched through the institutions of our nation destroying reasons to defend our Republic


18 posted on 01/15/2024 6:20:54 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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To: RomanSoldier19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7jVqok1bqw


19 posted on 01/15/2024 9:33:57 PM PST by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: ought-six

The brits did so well in WW1 why not, feed the pig


20 posted on 01/16/2024 2:06:17 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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