Posted on 06/23/2015 8:23:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
They are only sending a brigade sized force over there. 200 armored vehicles against Russia is just a speed bump.
Putin won't blink. He craves a confrontation with the weakling obama and the pusillanimous west. He knows NATO is a toothless old lion and he aims to prove it.
5000 troops? vs Russia? THAT’S IT? That’s not a threat, that’s an pre-emptive offer of surrender.
It’s not even that many. 1000 troops. That’s it.
Putin is bluffing because his military would be quickly destroyed when confronting us on the battlefield, and Putin would be left defenseless as his country breaks apart in factions and secession, and the buzzards like China, would pick at the remains, and of course Putin would be put to death.
Putin doesn’t have a military capable of sustained, large invasions anymore.
Now the slave nations and occupied geography that kept the evil empire threatening NATO, are part of NATO.
Meanwhile, our supposed allies in Europe are cozying up to China. How about if the Europeans take care of their own problems for a change and US taxpayers stop subsidizing their defense? NATO have been disbanded long ago.
Agree 100%!
[The Pentagon and Congress apparently think Vladimir Putin is a bluffer and, faced by U.S. toughness, will back down.]
OK, how many inches of dirt do I pack around windows? 18 inches reduces radiation by 50%?
Exactly. I’m tired of losing our brothers towards those Eurofaggots who don’t have the balls to stand up for themselves. If we ever kick Russian ass, I hope this time we take their oil and get something out of it.
Not only, that is the Americans being sent, in ADDITION to the region's own permanent military forces , plus the contributions of the entire 28 nation defensive alliance of NATO.
Doesn't anyone remember how defense of Europe works?
No, it’s more like a tripwire, just like our troops in Korea. For whatever reason, there are people in government, usually liberals, who love to risk our troops at every opportunity.
meanwhile, the Crimea, the dust up that precipitated the Putin gambit in Ukraine, remains part of Mother Russia
all that follows is theater
Pimping with a nuclear power is a dangerous game to play. I don’t see the US kicking any country’s ass any time soon. Americans are tired of foreign misadventures, and in case people haven’t noticed, we are broke.
If the US is threatened, it is by the Muslim horde we have within our own borders.
Oh, and I couldn’t agree more with your assessment of Europe. They do nothing but criticize us and take our money. The US should close all our bases in Europe and let them pay for their own defense. If the US were threatened, they wouldn’t lift a finger to help us.
So all that we, NATO and Reagan, and millions of veterans did was for nothing?
Vietnam and Korea, and all the brush wars, and the global millions dead, and our American peacetime dead, all for nothing?
You really want the USSR to reconquer, and them and China to rule over the world, and America?
I doubt any country can conquer the world, no matter what. World War II is over. Europe is now free. It’s time they took care of themselves.
BTW, Europe is turning towards China, so how about their loyalty to us? It’s nonexistent.
You really don’t know what was keeping Russia and China from conquering the world before 1991?
Russia is getting stronger than ever, and you are calling to give Russia a free hand to reconquer and return to the power and vast populations, and vast lands that they held in 1991, but this time, you don’t want us to be holding them at bay.
That means that the Russian/Red China goals of the “cold War”, would be attained, and that means that they conquer us in time as well.
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