Posted on 01/12/2017 5:27:00 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Poland on Thursday welcomed several thousand U.S. troops along with tanks and heavy equipment under a planned NATO operation to beef up its Eastern European allies, vexing the Kremlin, which said the troops' presence is a threat to Russia.
The largest U.S.military reinforcement of Europe in decades of around 2,700 troops, out of 3,500 planned, arrived as part of operation Atlantic Resolve, aimed at showing Moscow Washington's commitment to its allies.
"The main goal of our mission is deterrence and prevention of threats," U.S. Army Colonel Christopher R. Norrie, commander of the 3rd Armoured Brigade Combat Team, said at a welcome ceremony in Poland's western city of Zagan.
Poland and the Baltic former Soviet Republics requested U.S. and NATO troops after Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula in 2014, fearing further military operations in the region by President Vladimir Putin.
The Kremlin, which has previously criticised NATO for its reinforcement in Eastern Europe, said on Thursday the deployment was an aggressive step along its borders.
"We consider this a threat to us," Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin's spokesman, told journalists on a conference call. "We are talking here about a third country stepping up its military presence in Europe near our borders. . ."
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Amuses is misspelled in the title.
Incredible that Obama would wait until the week before he leaves office to put our troops on Russia’’s border.
Does Poland have a common border with the Rooskies (beyond that crazy western Ukrainian province)?
This is small peas. A single brigade of 35-00 soldiers has the Russians upset?
I doubt it.
If it were 350,000 the Russians might be worried.
they are not “unnerved.” Any action would require mountains of supplies moving to the front lines. The supply chain would suddenly bulge out like an arteries all around the world. They take a look at the tanks and the supply chain inactivity and say, “meh, he’ll be gone in days.”
I’m sure Putin knows adults will be in charge in about a week.
Yes, the Kaliningrad oblast abuts northern Poland.
Just Kaliningrad.
Yep, I just looked. I thought that geographic unit was between a couple of the other small Baltics. My bad.
Poland is a NATO country, and Poland extended the invitation.
Screw 'em.
>Poland is a NATO country, and Poland extended the invitation.
NATO is sucking socialist and 0bama sphincter.
Exactly.
The Polish people understand the Russians and they do not want to go back to the Cold War.
Poland deserves way more US support than most of the rest of Western Europe.
“NATO is sucking socialist and 0bama sphincter.”
I imagine the Polish people favor being in NATO over being a Russian satellite state.
I’ll support the homeland of Kosciuszko and Pulaski anytime. You can have the KGB filth running one party state fascist Russia.
When NATO embraces islam, NATO dies.
>This is small peas. A single brigade of 35-00 soldiers has the Russians upset?
Here’s the scenario: Ukraine is added to NATO at the last moment. This force of US troops are rushed in just in time to get killed by the Russian invasion that the Ukraine joining NATO will trigger. Lots of dead Americans and we will go to war with Russia for real. Neo-cons win while everyone else loses.
bull crap
the world knows Obama is an ass hole trying to make trouble and have a paragraph about how he led troops against the Russians
He’s black. He never counted
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