They seem to have felt a strange kind of physical attraction for quite a long time. Everybody's NATO army is welcome in Poland, except for Germans. Looks like they've changed, but...it's still too early, imho.
Posted on 04/18/2014 3:13:07 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Putin is somewhere laughing his a** off after this announcement
EU, IMF agree $1 trillion emergency fund (2010)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2510231/posts
The U.S. comprises about 2/3rds of the IMF...so
How about not?
Well, at least you can look forward to your Soviet Empire getting back together, and actual empire, and a truly evil empire.
Looks like O'bomber is going to destroy Putin... with his own laughter.
They seem to have felt a strange kind of physical attraction for quite a long time. Everybody's NATO army is welcome in Poland, except for Germans. Looks like they've changed, but...it's still too early, imho.
And it would actually be believable if our guys were taking the short range defense missiles with them. Maybe the Kenyan is going to send that bunch of BLM brownshirts who failed their mission in Bunkerville to Poland to retrain them?
That’s a bit of a sacrilege to General Patton but I guess he’s appreciate the effort. Couldn’t you build off a pic of, oh, say Gen. De Gaulle? Or maybe Black Jack Shellac?
I hate the bastard as much as anyone, but what the hell is he supposed to do? He sends troops to Poland and we’re aghast. We don’t want that. He DOESN’T do anything militarily and we call him a sissy-boy who’s afraid of the Rooskies.
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400,000 or 500,000? Don't insert tripwires if you're not willing to back up the implied threat. And no, I don't think Poland is at imminent risk. And yes, a NATO ally, we are obligated by law to assist. Better to send the Poles the defense systems we promised.
Am I the only one who thinks, for our own security, we should undertake a major drilling program here in the US. And for export. Accerlerate the approval of the couple dozen unapproved applications for LNG export terminals. Not one every couple years, all of them. And if oil prices are depressed, and if Russia is harmed financially, those are only consequences of America following policies that benefit America. If lower prices benefit Europe and harm Russia, it's irrelevant. Lower prices and jobs benefit America.
If they're not needed for Michelle's next vacation.
Just on outside chance you might have missed my point (dont think you did)
I was only saying that Putin I believe knows that at best Obama will send a very small number of troops, and would not have the back bone to go toe to toe with anybody anywhere
But, ya have to look at their mothers. The transformation is slow, but soon they are bent over wearing babushkas and wrecking good food by boiling it until there is no taste left.
I married one. Heed my warning.
Only if they want to. Probably they will, because it allows them to deploy more equipment in Belarus and Kaliningrad.
But technically... what those troops are going to do there, outside of messing with the local gene pool? Do they expect to cross the border with Belarus and attack? Or, perhaps, they expect to see Putin's tanks crossing the border in the other direction? None of that is likely. Poland was always fiercely independent, and conquering it is more trouble than it's worth.
Now, Poland is also bordering Ukraine. However deployment of foreign troops in Ukraine is unthinkable because it will be seen by many locals as an occupation. Perhaps the Right Sector and a few fellow travelers will meet them with flowers; but far more will meet them with IEDs (and with EDs that are not I at all.) This will be the final proof that the government in Kiev works for foreign powers. This will start a mass movement to expel "foreign mercenaries," there will be many requests to Putin to help them out, and pretty soon Putin will announce that as a true democratic leader he cannot ignore rightful requests of his Ukrainian brothers and sisters... and so on.
NATO won't be able to win that confrontation because it has no clear reason why they are there, so political support for US soldiers dying in Ukrainian steppes will be extremely low. There will be no legal reason either, as the government in Kiev was never elected - it came to power after a coup, so it has no legitimacy. There will be no military power as well, because NATO has supply lines over half the planet, whereas Ukrainians and Russians have supply depots right there. This is why deployment of troops without any way to use them is only an empty gesture. It not only does not help; it hurts, like flipping the bird to a group of gang members in the street.
There’s tile in that pic? Who knew?
That reminds me of the 14th and then the 11th ACR we used to keep in the Fulda Gap.
Yes, but then we had up to 4 divisions immediately behind them.
A paranoid, insular Russian (and I include the entire Russian leadership in this category) sees things far differently. To them, NATO is an aggressive organization who aim is conquest of Russia. Troops in Poland are at Russia's doorstep, a dagger aimed at the heart of the motherland.
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