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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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To: piasa

And I think some believe the world has to be divided among two great powers China and the US Russia stands in the way of that.


21 posted on 01/16/2024 6:44:22 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: canuck_conservative

It’s legal. In fact, it is more legal than us in Syria, bombing Serbia and Libya in two individual ways. The DPR and LPR declared independence. Russia recognized them and responded to a request for assistance. Very legal.

And second, the Kiev coup government started conducting ethnic cleansing of Russian speakers and started attacking their cities with artillery.
Any UN member nation is free to intervene to stop genocidal activity.

Russia is doing exactly what we are doing on behalf of Kurds in Syria, helping them breakaway from Assad. It’s exactly what we did in Kosovo.

So quit saying “illegal”. It makes you look stupid, or of Canadian/Ukrainian. But I repeat muself.


22 posted on 01/16/2024 6:44:41 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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To: piasa

You have it ass backwards. NATO and their Nazi formations were determined to finish ethnic cleansing and to grab control of eastern Ukraine and Crimea after the coup in Kiev in 2014.

Putin learned the lesson of appeasement in Munich and realized only military action would stop things. So he rolled after finally understanding that the DC/London/Kiev Reich was simply beyond diplomacy.


23 posted on 01/16/2024 6:48:30 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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To: EEGator

You’re right. The British would be lucky to field two combat divisions and an armored brigade.


24 posted on 01/16/2024 6:50:13 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: laplata

The Brits have exhausted their 155 ammo. They have less than a weeks supply at the rates fired in Ukraine.


25 posted on 01/16/2024 6:53:13 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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To: laplata

It’s amazing how far they have fallen. Unfortunately, we seem to want to follow.


26 posted on 01/16/2024 6:53:53 PM PST by EEGator
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To: BobL

“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?”

Are you suggesting putin will invade the UK?


27 posted on 01/16/2024 6:57:56 PM PST by Sunsong
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To: canuck_conservative

Canada has been arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine for decades. Canada bombed Libya back to the stone age. Canada undermines democracy in Haiti. Canada supports coup regimes in Latin America that oppress indigenous people. And now Canada supports genocide in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/S3qeJeN4uh— 🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 (@apocalypseos) January 12, 2024


28 posted on 01/16/2024 6:58:25 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Sunsong

Forever and a day, may it be so!


29 posted on 01/16/2024 6:59:52 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston; SaveFerris; tennmountainman; BobL; House Atreides; Allegra; CapnJack; Nextrush
Have you noticed this about the people who can't live and let live - the Lefties and the neocons?

Poke. Poke-Poke-Poke. Poke-Poke.


30 posted on 01/16/2024 7:12:02 PM PST by kiryandil (Rocco is roccking again!!)
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To: JonPreston; Sunsong
All the Russian troops have to do is pretend that they are Asians coming across the Channel on the usual black rubber dinghies.

By the time the feckless Brit poofters realize what's going on, it'll be too late...

31 posted on 01/16/2024 7:14:56 PM PST by kiryandil (Rocco is roccking again!!)
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To: DesertRhino
So quit saying “illegal”. It makes you look stupid, or of Canadian/Ukrainian.

       

32 posted on 01/16/2024 7:17:06 PM PST by kiryandil (Rocco is roccking again!!)
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To: DesertRhino

That’s insanity and just asking to be annihilated.


33 posted on 01/16/2024 7:51:01 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: EEGator

We’re certainly on that path. Our once superiority in technology is gone, etc.


34 posted on 01/16/2024 7:54:01 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Nextrush

The western governments are all in deep trouble economically, and when things are bad enough internally to be a threat to the establishment, war is a strategy often used to maintain their control. Beware of false flag operations.


35 posted on 01/16/2024 7:56:22 PM PST by Rlsau1
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To: JonPreston

“genocide in Gaza” ??

wth are you babbling about now?


36 posted on 01/16/2024 8:11:59 PM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian vermin out!!)
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To: Sunsong

“Are you suggesting putin will invade the UK?”

He won’t, but given the UK’s behavior, he certainly has that option per International Law.


37 posted on 01/16/2024 9:10:28 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: SaveFerris

Where is that noob that complains about us posting pics?


38 posted on 01/16/2024 10:48:04 PM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Bikkuri

😜


39 posted on 01/17/2024 4:41:45 AM 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: tennmountainman; Jonty30; Nextrush; Bikkuri

(begging for WW3)

Push out a few trip wires / hope for a Gulf of Tonkin-style “incident’?


40 posted on 01/17/2024 4:46:21 AM 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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