US Army Lt. Col Steven Gventer, today announced that the United States will be leading a battalion of NATO troops on a deployment into northeastern Poland, beginning in early April, as the latest in a string of NATO deployments “in response” to Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea.
Some 1,200 troops are expected to be sent, with over 900 US troops providing the largest portion of this new battalion. 150 British troops will also be involved, along with 120 Romanian troops. Britain is also deploying a substantial force into the nearby state of Estonia as part of the same operation.
Three years after Crimea seceded from Ukraine, and was immediately granted accession into the Russian Federation, NATO is continuing to use it as an excuse for a buildup, claiming Russia poses some sort of general threat to Eastern Europe, and to the Baltic states in particular.
Lt. Col. Gventer continued to play the Russian card throughout discussions of this deployment, saying that this is not a training mission, and that US troops “are fully ready to be lethal” against Russian forces in this new effort. The overall NATO operation is expected to be fully deployed by June.
Lets just imagine that China or Russia is sending battalions of troops to new bases on the Mexican-US border, while constantly sending out messages that they view the USA as the main threat to their futures and a sometimes calling the USA an existetial threat?
How do you think the US would react to that? Given that the USA reacts with outraged anger at the notion of Russia having troops within its own country and to the notion of China having a fleet in a sea called the “China Sea” just off their shores, the US would probably regard such a buiildup on its border as an act of aggression and people like Mad Bomber McCain would be calling for a pre-emptive nuclear strike in response.
Given our constitution there is only one person who can order or stop this. It is the President of the USA not the so-called, non-existing, fantasy “deep state”.
The Poles are sucking us into WW3 just like they did the Brits, and ultimately us, in WW2.
What a dumb thing to say.
What kind of hope could there possibly be for the antiwar cause when ignorant Americans still can’t understand that Nato is the warmaking arm of the US?
This kind of stupidity has to be attributable to Trump’s uninformed comment on Nato being obsolete!
Please folks, we must rise above that nonsense in order to make any progress at all!
What is the matter with the USA? It cannot stop its constant, dangerous incursions everywhere it can go. NATO does NOT need to cause more strife. Take all the US troops home, give them real jobs doing something useful.
It’s Trump’s/the US’s way of making America great again. Somebody please tell Raimondo.
This escalation of Nato forces toward Russia’s borders has nothing to do with Trump. Therefor everybody should be asking if US Army Lt. Col Steven Gventer has asked permission from Trump for this move.
LOL
So whatever you people find out about that, perhaps you should take the time to inform Raimondo?
It is not for nothing that we get all the Polack jokes