Posted on 06/03/2014 5:42:56 AM PDT by don-o
Responding to the crisis in Ukraine, the US president has given military assurances on the security of eastern European states
Barack Obama has assured Poland and its eastern European neighbours that the American commitment to their security was unswerving at the start of a four-day trip meant to show US resolve after the Russian intervention in Ukraine.
The White House unveiled plans for a $1bn initiative to send more of its military to Europe on a temporary basis but stopped short of promising to increase its permanent presence, as some of Washington's allies are seeking. It said the US would review its presence on the continent.
Speaking in an aircraft hangar at Warsaw airport where he met US airmen taking part in a joint exercise with the Polish air force, Obama said US commitments to Poland and the region were a cornerstone of the US's own security.
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They're screwed.
“Oh, and yes. He has such wonderful credibility too. He’d never tell us a lie.”
Would he?
Obama assures eastern Europe that the US will not abandon it
Period!
oh boy, that’s the kiss of death
And one of this jerk’s first acts as cic was to abandon Poland and Czech Republic.
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