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2018-06-02 Europe

US military looking at deploying THAAD missile system in Germany

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Posted by Fred 2018-06-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Withdraw out troops from Europe. Then we won't need expensive systems like this. Let the Europeans pay for their own defense.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-06-02 00:53|| 2018-06-02 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Why telegraph this? Negotiating tactic? Those could be installed without anyone knowing.

Posted by gorb 2018-06-02 05:20|| 2018-06-02 05:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Why telegraph it?

Iran.

Posted by Snoluting Phomoth8901 2018-06-02 08:24|| 2018-06-02 08:24|| Front Page Top

#4 We get it, Herb. No US troops outside our national boundaries anywhere, ever. One trick pony

Posted by Frank G 2018-06-02 08:28|| 2018-06-02 08:28|| Front Page Top

#5 ...hmmmm, first world countries? By the 1980s Western Europe were on par with the US in population and combined GDP. Why the hell are we still running military welfare 30 years later? /rhet question

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-06-02 08:32|| 2018-06-02 08:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Sums up NATO today.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-06-02 09:00|| 2018-06-02 09:00|| Front Page Top

#7 The Germans have money, yes? Let them pay for it, or rent it. It is long past time to reconsider the US garrisons in EUrope,

Posted by magpie 2018-06-02 09:12|| 2018-06-02 09:12|| Front Page Top

#8 No, Germany does not have enough money to pay for their own defense. They have spent it all on welfare, immigrants, etc.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2018-06-02 09:58|| 2018-06-02 09:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Deploy it in Poland and snub ze Germans

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-06-02 10:05|| 2018-06-02 10:05|| Front Page Top

#10 #8 No, Germany does not have enough money to pay for their own defense. They have spent it all on welfare, immigrants, etc.

Payments to the Paleos, etc.

Posted by Frank G 2018-06-02 10:06|| 2018-06-02 10:06|| Front Page Top

#11 Yeah, but they saved a lot of money by not vetting their immigrants.

Posted by gorb 2018-06-02 10:38|| 2018-06-02 10:38|| Front Page Top

#12 I'd rather pay to relocate Ramstein to Poland.

Posted by Ebbaiting Snomonter6122 2018-06-02 10:48|| 2018-06-02 10:48|| Front Page Top

#13 Iran and Russia

Posted by newc 2018-06-02 16:52|| 2018-06-02 16:52|| Front Page Top

#14 "No US troops outside our national boundaries anywhere, ever."

That's a solid idea with a lot going for it. Globalists have turned America into World Bully with far too many bases in far too many countries, doing things that are none of our business, and spending our money doing it. Money which we badly need to invest or spend on ourselves.

If we have to pay to have allies, then fuck them.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-06-02 17:20|| 2018-06-02 17:20|| Front Page Top

#15 Herb's last sentence nails it. We have wasted untold blood and treasure on attemps at foreign regime chg.

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