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NATO to agree larger Iraq training force as violence rises
2021-02-17
[AlAhram] NATO defence ministers are set to agree plans on Thursday during a video conference, potentially taking the mission from its current maximum of some 500 troops to around 4,000 or 5,000

NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
defence ministers are set to expand the military alliance's training mission in Iraq once the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Do you remember the scene in Blazing Saddles when the sheriff put a revolver to his head? I wonder if the NATO ministers suspect that the new Biden* administration is far more "interventionist" than Trump would have been -- and they want to place NATO advisors hostages "human shields" in Iraq to prevent the US from doing anything.
Posted by: magpie   2021-02-17 19:27  

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