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Grant Shapps set to send 20,000 military personnel to eastern Europe
The Telegraph ^ | 1/15/24 | Daniel Martin, Nick Gutteridge

Posted on 01/16/2024 5:57:26 PM PST by JonPreston

The Defence Secretary is set to pledge to send 20,000 British military personnel to a major Nato exercise in eastern Europe as he warns the post-Cold War “peace dividend” is at an end.

Grant Shapps will warn that “battle lines are being redrawn” as he announces the deployment of Army, Navy and RAF members to the drill on Russia’s borders in a speech in London.

It will be the largest deployment of British land forces to Nato since the height of the Cold War in 1984, a year before Mikhail Gorbachev became Soviet leader.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: british; europe; pestyputinbots; russiacheerleaders; troops
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1 posted on 01/16/2024 5:57:26 PM PST by JonPreston
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To: JonPreston
World War III is gonna be so much fun



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2 posted on 01/16/2024 6:00:10 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, y bought, they sold ......)
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To: JonPreston

UK is begging for WW3


3 posted on 01/16/2024 6:00:12 PM PST by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: JonPreston

“Grant Shapps set to send 20,000 military personnel to eastern Europe”

Will the UK have any troops left to defend their homeland, or will they be stuck with screeching police-woman with their Billy Clubs trying to fight off Putin’s invasion?


4 posted on 01/16/2024 6:01:24 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: JonPreston

“… warns the post-Cold War “peace dividend” is at an end.…”
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In other words, the search is on for MO’, MO’, MO’ OTHER-PEOPLE’S-MONEY.

MUCH MO’!


5 posted on 01/16/2024 6:02:45 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX)
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To: JonPreston

I guess the “marching orders” cam down from Davos this week for the EU.

Seems like they really want a war with Russia. The Swedes, the Germans, and now the Brits.

Whats the End Game?


6 posted on 01/16/2024 6:06:24 PM PST by CapnJack ( )
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To: JonPreston

There is something to all this namely the expulsion of ethnic Russians from the Baltic states.

Deportation procedures slowly building up in Lativa, Lithuania and Estonia.

The new provocation designed to trigger a response from Russia since they are kicking butt with Ukraine.

NATO is wishin and hopin to get a rise out of Russia with the provocations of the Baltic States.

Finland already closed its border with Russia Sweden did it “war warning” the other week.


7 posted on 01/16/2024 6:06:34 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: JonPreston

The military term for this level of deployment is “a fart in the wind”.


8 posted on 01/16/2024 6:08:51 PM PST by glorgau
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To: CapnJack

There is provocation in the Baltics see my Post #7.


9 posted on 01/16/2024 6:10:26 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: JonPreston

At first sight I thought they were talking about Ulysses Grant and was wondering how that works.


10 posted on 01/16/2024 6:12:51 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: JonPreston

The door just opened up a few inches towards a world war.


11 posted on 01/16/2024 6:15:57 PM PST by Jonty30 (In a nuclear holocaust, there is always a point in time where the meat is cooked to perfection. )
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(Shapps) warns the post-Cold War “peace dividend” is at an end

The British Empire ended 75 years ago and now Britain itself is becoming extinct, and they're going to bring down the world with it.

12 posted on 01/16/2024 6:16:23 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Nextrush

And Putin illegally invading a sovereign country ISN’T a “provocation”??


13 posted on 01/16/2024 6:16:33 PM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian vermin out!!)
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To: CapnJack
Whats the End Game?

1. Defeat Russia, break it up, steal assets
2. Cover up their bankrupt countries
3. Create a common enemy to distract the population while they enslave their country with digital currency, digital ID, elimination of free speech, 15 minute cities. The entire agenda.

14 posted on 01/16/2024 6:16:51 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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And Putin illegally invading a sovereign country ISN’T a “provocation”??

Every country is a "sovereign country".
That never stops any other country from invading.
My country does that around the world.
Sometimes the country believes it is the only remaining option.

15 posted on 01/16/2024 6:18:16 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: canuck_conservative

Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia kicking Russians out is the provocation my friend get used to the notion because it is the plan the policy being carried out as I post this.


16 posted on 01/16/2024 6:20:30 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

I guess they hope to cut a deal with China to split up Russia.


17 posted on 01/16/2024 6:21:33 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: JonPreston

The phony - propaganda war

Is about territory

The real war is religion

Marxist homosexual liberation / supremacy

Equalite

Liberte

Fraternite

Diversite

Napolean - Hitler- Biden did it

Lebenstraum

Brave new world

Gog usa

Magog nato

Rev 13


18 posted on 01/16/2024 6:24:53 PM PST by Firehath (Quackery - An irrelevant simplification / undetected Complex problem - attacking symptoms)
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To: glorgau

26% of their troops.


19 posted on 01/16/2024 6:34:37 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Nextrush

You useful idiots would be talking about western provocation of Germany if this was the 1930s, and would be cheering on the joint Nazi-Russian attack on Poland.

Putin has made known his desire to swallow up his neighbors just as Hitler made no secret of his desire to do the same.


20 posted on 01/16/2024 6:37:23 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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