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2019-12-10 Europe

US Army preparing biggest European deployment in years

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Posted by Fred 2019-12-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Who's paying for all this?

If it's America, why? Send the bill to Europe for their own defense. They can easily afford it, they are wealthy First World nations.

Europeans sincerely believe that Americans are obliged to protect them. If you babysit a child, he will grow up an evil egoist. This is what we see in Europe today. They need tough love.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-12-10 00:31|| 2019-12-10 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Puzzling. How exactly did "everything" change because of the "annexation" of an absolutely strategically vital territory which has always, since before our Revokutionar War ended, been part of not Russia's sphere but Russia itself?

Why are we rattling sabers over this?

Anyone? Bueller?

Posted by Lex 2019-12-10 01:35|| 2019-12-10 01:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Fact check: former Soviet countries in Eastern Europe have wider gauge, not narrower gauge, than Western Europe and U.S.

Posted by Jumbo Squank9429 2019-12-10 03:31|| 2019-12-10 03:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Ugly American stories soon to follow.

Posted by Thimp Clusort2035 2019-12-10 06:06|| 2019-12-10 06:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Crimea was annexed by the Russian Empire in 1783, previous owners were the Crimean Khanate, decedents of the Mongols.

as a relative comparison -

The former province of Silesia was annexed in 1742 by Prussia, previous claimant was the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Now part of Poland since 1946.

Prussia achieved Kingdom status in 1700. Now known as Kaliningard Oblast, annexed into the Soviet Union in 1946.

Wars have consequences. Ignore the childish chant - wars don't solve anything.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-10 06:07|| 2019-12-10 06:07|| Front Page Top

#6 wars don't solve anything

I believe it was Carthaginian folk saying.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-10 06:15|| 2019-12-10 06:15|| Front Page Top

#7 We could ask the Aedui.

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-12-10 11:04|| 2019-12-10 11:04|| Front Page Top

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