Posted on 06/24/2024 7:14:29 AM PDT by hardspunned
Six RAF Eurofighter Typhoons sit on the taxiway, engines roaring on two, as the ground staff hurry about, adding the finishing touches before take-off. In the distance, a cloud of dust rises in the summer haze over the construction site of the second runway, 3.5km (2 miles) long, beside the first. The hot northerly wind buffets the new hangars and the old. Mihai Kogalniceanu (MK) airbase takes its name from the village nearby, itself named after a 19th Century liberal politician. Now, it is the unlikely setting for what is turning into the biggest Nato base in Europe, bigger even than Ramstein in Germany.
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It was a Ukrainian drone, Joe.
Why would Ukrainians attack us after all the aid we’ve given them?
It was the Russians that launched it from a submarine off our east coast using parts they collected from shot down drones we firmly believe.
Putin denied the Russians were behind the attack. He suggested that the attack was probably done by pro-Trump people who bought a black-market Ukrainian drone after Trump was imprisoned.
"We cannot guarantee the safety of our citizens at our polling places."
"All voting must be done by mail-in ballot."
The base is 16mi from the Romanian port city of Constanta.
MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU, Romania — The 101st Airborne Division soldiers here are positioned close enough to Ukraine that their artillery is in easy range of the war-torn country and intelligence gatherers can monitor fighters buzzing around the Black Sea.
The 2nd Brigade Combat Team, deployed on the division's first operational mission in Europe since World War II, functions as the most forward-based American unit in proximity to the fighting in Ukraine, military leaders say.
There are now about 5,000 soldiers along NATO's southeastern flank, the majority of whom are anchored at strategic locations near Romania's coastline.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2022-12-20/romania-101st-airborne-army-ukraine-8484324.html
I hope they have a dam good Patriot Defense system setup.
I heard we have seven bases in Romania. That is a lot folks.
Are you sure it isn’t 6 bases claimed not 7, and by the same source that claims we have 750 (or 800) bases world wide and 54 bases in Guam, 119 in Japan, and 34 in Puerto Rico and so on?
March 21, 2024
Work has begun on expanding the Mihail Kogalniceanu base in Romania, transforming it into the largest NATO military base in Europe.
https://balkaninsight.com/2024/03/21/romania-to-host-largest-nato-military-base-in-europe/
And the biggest target.
Just another step closer to 12 o’clock midnight and WW III. If the US would be like it used to be in the past, more of a reflection of honesty, integrity and morality and at the same time Russia would be more like the old Soviet Union I would say go right to it but in the meantime the US has changed for the worse were as Russia had realized that the old ways were not getting them anywhere fast and had changed for the better, much to the chagrin of our crooked politicians and of course they can’t allow this to happen. And to remain in power what better way than drag us into another war, while a good portion of the public is ignorant and asleep at the switch to what really is taking place.
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