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2017-01-11 Europe

U.S. troops reach Poland in anti-Russian aggression NATO exercises

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Posted by Steve White 2017-01-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Poland. Is that near Syria?

Posted by Skidmark 2017-01-11 02:20|| 2017-01-11 02:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Aren't there enough F*uped deployments in regions that actually need help without 'Parades with Partners'?

Wonder what a brigade of armor could do in Helmand.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-01-11 02:24|| 2017-01-11 02:24|| Front Page Top

#3 9 more days.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-01-11 04:10|| 2017-01-11 04:10|| Front Page Top

#4 ...Give the Poles the damned tanks and let them handle it. If the Russians come west again, the Poles will fight to the last round, and then they'll pick up knives, and when the knives are broken they'll use their bare hands. I don't think anybody on this side of the line - or the Russian side, either - has any idea how much the Poles hate the Russians.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-01-11 05:59|| 2017-01-11 05:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Under strength military, penny packeted across the globe. You have too many commitments with too few resources. He who defends everything, defends nothing.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-01-11 07:47|| 2017-01-11 07:47|| Front Page Top

#6 So much for the Obama pivot to Asia.

Posted by Pappy 2017-01-11 08:26|| 2017-01-11 08:26|| Front Page Top

#7 These troops were intended for Hillary to start some shit with Russia. Instead we will have peace.

Why do we need to defend Europeans? They hate our guts and want our troops out. They are easily capable of defending themselves.

Posted by Elmavish Panda1401 2017-01-11 12:08|| 2017-01-11 12:08|| Front Page Top

#8 As much or more than the Hungarians?
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Posted by OregonGUy 2017-01-11 12:30|| http://oregonguythinks.blogspot.com 2017-01-11 12:30|| Front Page Top

#9 They are easily capable of defending themselves.

Well, let's not go overboard there Mr. Panda. Doesn't mean we should just because they can't.

Posted by AlanC 2017-01-11 13:21|| 2017-01-11 13:21|| Front Page Top

#10 Bear baiting is a dangerous occupation.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-01-11 13:38|| 2017-01-11 13:38|| Front Page Top

#11 They hate our guts and want our troops out. They are easily capable of defending themselves.

The Polish descriptor of Platonic perfection of anything is American... or at least it was in 1994, according to my Polish au pair girl. That is not the attitude of a people who hate our guts.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-01-11 14:37|| 2017-01-11 14:37|| Front Page Top

#12 But that was 1994. Back then the Poles remembered what had happened between 1939 and 1990. Today, not so much...

Posted by Steve White 2017-01-11 14:40|| 2017-01-11 14:40|| Front Page Top

#13 Doesn't mean we should just because they ~~can't~~ won't.

FIFY. Check their combined GDP and population against ours. Better to spend their Euros on social programs than defend themselves.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-01-11 16:16|| 2017-01-11 16:16|| Front Page Top

#14 Re:#5 Procopius: Which is why the finely trained but penny packeted British Colonial troops were not prepared for a world War in 1914.

Posted by borgboy 2017-01-11 17:38|| 2017-01-11 17:38|| Front Page Top

#15 To make transitioning to wipe out ISIS a longer process courtesy lame duck Hussein.

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