In 2020, the US Army will be carrying out its biggest deployment in 25 years into Europe. The deployment will send 20,000 US troops, and 13,000 pieces of equipment across Europe for wargames beginning in May and running through June.
US Gen. Christopher Cavoli would not define the operation as aimed at Russia, but did tie it to Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, saying it “changed everything.” The large deployment will be difficult.
That’s because as with most recent operations, the US will be sending forces largely into former Warsaw Pact countries, and those countries have railroads incompatible with Western Europe. Moreover, the bridges in those countries were built without envisioning having to support the heaviest of US tanks.
According to Gen. Cavoli, the large deployment of US troops is meant to “demonstrate the US military’s ability to quickly deploy a large force.” This comes amid constantly escalating rhetoric against Russia.
Idiots galumphing around Europe creating more disgust & resentment. Maybe camp-followers & prostitutes will make some coin.
What a waste of $billions! Where the hell are you Prez,,scared of the generals in their uniforms?? D.C. is our real enemy.
Trump is all about wasting billions, he is enamored of the broken window fallacy combined with typical keynesian spending = stimulating the economy. After all look a Bannon, he didn’t object to our faulty economic model, he just thought it was working for the banksters and wall street not main street and that by replacing it with better central planners we could make the economy better.
This could be the biggest American deployment to Europe since WWII. 20k new troops plus the 9k already there, another 13k tanks, artillery, trucks, and this time it’s on Russia’s doorstep, not Germany or France. Still think Trump disdained NATO on peace principles? LOL. What a freak!
The Pentagram and Navy is really mad that it didn’t get that port in Sevastopol.
Europe should tell us to go to hell and use our own country for a battlefield for once. We always manage to keep the carnage that we create in someone else’s country..
Europe was plenty responsible for the carnage we created there, Bosnia excluded. Otherwise agreed.
Russia’s “annexation of Crimea” after the US overthrow of the Ukrainian government and the US support of Ukraine. What possible damage is Russia threatening to US “allies”? Why waste money on wargames and not even try to have peace agreements?
These war games are preparation for another country in ME.