Pentagon Directing More Military Aid to Eastern Europe
The increase in money, training, and equipment is essentially a bribe for continuing to fight the lost war in Afghanistan
The Pentagon is directing more military aid to Eastern Europe, even as the U.S. has talked about reducing the empire’s resources in Europe to focus more on Asia.
The U.S. has been relying more on Eastern European NATO allies in its efforts in Afghanistan, and so is sending as much as $100 million, 33 percent more than last year, to countries like Hungary, Poland, Romania and Lithuania as a sort of bribe for continuing to fight in a lost war.
Shifting resources from Western Europe, the U.S. will send Hungary $13.3 million, an increase from $2.87 million last year. Poland will receive $14 million from $2.85 million, Romania increases to $14.3 million from $7.3 million and Lithuania will get $12.8 million, up from $5.7 million.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said last week that the U.S. will cut the number of troops stationed in Europe, as it cuts $490 billion over the next decade, a negligible drop in the bucket which merely slows the rate of increase in defense spending. The U.S. had almost 80,000 military personnel stationed in Europe as of December 2010.
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Roger Lafontaine
January 21st, 2012 at 3:33 am
Oh, why don't we start WWIII with the Russians while we're in the neighborhood?
Randolph
January 21st, 2012 at 7:04 pm
The key words are "Pentagon directing"
The free and democratic design of an American government that was supposed to attempt to keep us free and preserve our liberties said that all money decision must start in the part of the government closest to the people and up for re-election every two years.
Now, these days that House is as corrupt a body as any boxing ranking organization, and the elections are two-party restricted farces where usually one party concedes the race to the other's incumbent and where money wins 99% of the time, but still, the basic idea of American democracy is that the "Pentagon" would never be deciding foreign policy decisions like this.
We want our country back.
There's only a handful of incumbents that should be re-elected. Probably not even a decent handful. Throw all the rest of the bums out. Then maybe the well-being of Americans will be put above sending money to eastern Europe.