Speaking with the Senate Appropriations Committee, top US commander in Europe Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti pushed for more funding for “long-term investment” in US military facilities in Europe, able to support further escalations of US deployments of both ground troops and combat equipment onto the continent.
Gen. Scaparrotti played up the continued false narrative of “Russian aggression,” which has been securing the Pentagon so much extra funding in recent years, suggesting that the US needs more permanent deployments of combat troops around the Russian frontier to counter them.
The problem, as Scaparrotti sees it, is that Russia has a “heavy force” deployed in Europe, which is to say that materially their entire military is present inside their own country, whereas the US, which has the significant disadvantage of not being physically located in Europe, only has a relatively limited military presence on the continent, with other troops dedicated to occupations and wars around the world, and many deployed in the United States itself, which again isn’t in Europe.
Of course, the US and the rest of NATO have dramatically escalated their deployments in Eastern Europe in the past year already, building up forces around the border between Russia and NATO’s Baltic states, but these “spearhead” forces aren’t presented as “permanent” forces, which allows the Pentagon to spin their European presence as much smaller than it really is.
When will the member nations of NATO finally realize that the erratic, aggressive foreign policy of the USA, forever pursuing demons, is endangering their existence? When will Denmark, now yipping at the heels of Russia in a warlike manner as titular head of NATO, comprehend that, if there is war, she will be crushed like an anthill? Nations that I once thought rational and humane have become the running dogs of the American war machine.
And the scary part is Christian Russia and Communist China are more together today than they ever have been . They feel they have to be . If they don’t want to be dismembered like Yugoslavia was .They saw what happened to Yugoslavia , Libya and now Syria . Both Russia and China are trying to help Assad in Syria . I don’t think they are near so afraid of N Korea as they are of United States and the North American terrorist organization .
Unlike the former Yugoslavia, the Russians and the Chinese can respond in kind. It seems that the point of this new aggression against these two world powers is to prevent their economic and political alliance (Eurasian integration) and to keep the world dependent upon our fiat currency, backed up by neither industry nor gold.
Both Russia and China were in Yugoslavia too . They did not like what happened to them in Yugoslavia . Russian soldiers were ordered to be shoot by NATO because they might try to protect Christians This destroyed Yeltsin’s new liberal democracy in Russia . A missilev was accidently on purpose fired into the Chinese Embassy . Russia and China have been preparing together for another confrontation .for almost the last 20 years They are both helping Assad in Syria now.
Trump is right it would best to talk to China before we bomb N Korea . I don’t think China will give him permission . I don’t believe So Korea even would give us permission to bomb N Korea