In 2012, the Obama Administration cut a pair of army brigades from Europe, in an effort to save money and to shift forces to other more combat–heavy areas. In early 2017, after Obama leaves office, the brigades will return.
The Pentagon is now saying they intend to send rotations of armored combat brigades to Eastern Europe, bringing the continued presence of combat forces back to where it was in 2011.
NATO Supreme Commander Gen. Philip Breedlove touted the deployments, claiming they are a “strong and balanced” response to Russia’s “aggression.” Breedlove is among several NATO officials who have been claiming Russia might invade Eastern Europe, and have been pushing ever-more US troops for the region.
The deployment isn’t a total rollback to the 2011 presence, as the previous US troops were largely in Germany, and the new ones will be rotating around Poland and the Baltic states, with an eye toward keeping them along the Russian border.
In recent military budgets, the US has been adding more and more troops to the Russian frontier, even though the predictions of a Russian invasion never panned out, and there are no signs they are slowing down those deployments.
What a relief, because the powerful, ominous Warsaw Pact is ready to over-run all of Western Europe…oh, wait.; wrong century.
Quote: “The Pentagon is now saying they intend to send rotations of armored combat brigades to Eastern Europe, bringing the continued presence of combat forces back to where it was in 2011”. The Pentagon? Who in the Pentagon is our commander-in-chief? This is either insubordination or a cowardly hiding of our President behind “the Pentagon”.
It is an idiocy of the greatest magnitude to assert that Europe’s big problem is Russia/Putin given the enormous problem of the millions of refugees streaming into Europe. Europe does not need more armored brigades. It needs help for accommodating and integrating the refugees.
Europe needs help STOPPING the invasion of rapefugees or there will be no Europe.
71 years of European occupation. Enough!! Bring the troops home!!!
oh please describe in definitive details this alleged Russian aggression that you LIED about general breedlove! I’ll bet you can’t, because you’re a lying scumbag!
Breedlove has been watching Dr. Strangelove too many times. He’s hell bent on getting those nukes flying – especially since he has a nuke-proof command center and will never have to eat radioactive fallout…
Please take your troops and your nukes back to your own country.
We Europeans don’t really want to fight your war in our countries.
Fight your own wars.
Doesn’t it bother anyone that Russia has no motive to attack Europe? Russia has nothing to gain and everything to lose by attacking Europe.
Cui Bono by saying Russia is going to attack Europe? Only America, who continually elects to bomb competitors instead of actually competing.
General Breedlove has been replaced with Gen.Curtis M. Scaparrotti. We’ll just have to wait and see if Scaparotti is as stuck in the Cold War as Breedlove was.
Hmmm
This move is pathetically transparent. In fact the entire incitement of both China and Russia by the US is patently obvious. The phony wars on terror fought on behalf of Israel to gain control of the region are nearing conclusion. The government needs another focus of attention to distract the citizenry. The military industrial complex needs another boogeyman etc……..Heck, it is a no brainer; everybody winds. Except for America and the American people. But lets face facts, the people in control of our government couldn’t give a rats *ss about America or the American people. If they did, none of this would be happening.
I am sure NATO activities are inefficient and counter-productive in the Baltic States.
see the article “The Baltic States: top 10 results of NATO membership”
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