Speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Gen. Curtis
Scaparrotti, the NATO Supreme Allied Commander-Europe, argued that the
US needs to send even more troops and warships to Europe to “stay ahead of Russia.”
Even though Russia’s military spending is actually scheduled to decrease
in the next few years, Gen. Scaparrotti argued that the “growing”
Russian threat justified even more US spending on Europe. This has, of
course, been a common argument for Pentagon officials, and is why the US
such a massive number of troops in Eastern Europe in the first place.
The Pentagon seems determined to continue using Russia as an excuse to
increase military spending going forward, or eventually start a huge war
with a military confrontation there.
To that end. the general is also confirming that the US is considering sending
yet more arms to Ukraine to use to fight Russia. Ukraine’s leadership
has repeatedly predicted the start of World War 3 with Russia.
Though the arms to Ukraine are nominally meant to be used to fight
ethnic Russian rebels, they include anti-tank weapons, and the new
shipment would be focused on naval arms, clearly not meant for the
landlocked “civil war.”
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No, no, that’s not how it works.
Scaparrotti sends flowers (non-allergenic and non-fatal) and Poroshenko sends candy (natural cane sugar and explosive-free) and they sit down with Putin and share a drink (non-alcoholic and non-spiked) at the negotiating table and talk peace.
… and rainbows and unicorns.
F this guy.
troops and ships? someone tell the toy soldier this isn’t 1941.
This dude makes Dr. Strangelove look sane!
Aholes like this need to be sh1t canned right away. Russia isn’t a threat to Europe. Even if they wanted to, they don’t have the logistics for a conflict with the EU. Also, the EU has 17 times the economy of Russia. More than twice the population and without the US spend more on their own military than Russia.
It’s past time to purge the Pentagon of of these types. The military is bloated with generals. Getting rid of some 90% would be a good start. Many in the lower ranks are actually much better, but don’t kiss enough a$$ to get promoted.
Russian “growing threat.” these guys are like wind up dolls with their wind up string broken.
The growing threat is in ukraine with promises of more arms and porky’s chances for an honest reelection in the toilet. What do class clowns do in these situations? False flag or unprovoked atk come to mind.
Need to give this idiot a gun, a pack, a swastika and a ticket to the Ukraine.
It is revealing that Scaparotti (apparently) has not listed a single European state which has signaled “SOS we need more American soldiers because the Russians are coming.”
My evaluation of the relative strengths is that NATO can easily attack and occupy Belarus and Ukraine. That is almost exactly the territory which the German Kaiser’s armed forces controlled from early 2018 until early 2019 during the prime days of the Bolshevik rule of Russia. It was forced on Lenin by the German negotiators at the agreement of Brest Litovsk. That is also the area which one prominent German Fieldmarshal recommended for the extent of the German military, political, and economic penetration into the Soviet Union at the end of 1941 when the quick submission of the Soviet Union had failed. Putin, a former KGB agent knows this very well.
The other revealing statement is about more warships. Where will they go? The Mediterranean? No. There is enough NATO power in that sea. The Baltic? No, there is enough NATO power in the Baltic. The Black Sea? Yes. Our allies there are Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania. Not very reliable. Are there rules on warships sailing through the Dardanelles? Yes there are rules. MAGA allows you to ignore them.
Why all of this saber rattling against Russia and China? MAGA demands it too.
And will the Senate, as usual, meekly lie down and approve this dangerous policy? Or will it finally wake up and state categorically “No Mas?”
How many potholes go unfilled to fund this dull paranoids fantasy.
Definitely what the US and the world needs: more US troops in Europe. Oh who thinks so? Why it’s the Army….