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LOL! No, he didn't, but I understand your compulsion to pretend that he did.
A bit sad, though, to continually watch you struggle to be relevant.
OMG, what a wild comment.
Absolutely mind blowing.
I think Russia would be more likely to pick away at non-NATO countries (as evidenced in post-2007 events) than to directly draw the ire of the entire 7-million+ NATO alliance at once.
I'm sure Russia is well aware that they would lose.
You’re mak8ng pronouncements. Pronouncements aren’t cogent arguments.
They attack our allies. They refuse to extradite our criminals. They violate arms agreements. They provide aid to groups actively targeting American troops. They execute cyber attacks on our infrastructure. They undermine our democratic election process with disinformation campaigns. They recruit spies to infiltrate our government and other organizations. Is that enough? Do you need more?
The ironic thing is, you simply wouldn't know in any case.
No argument yet in sight.
Contrast that with the Western European nations ever shrinking militaries and you realize why our continued participation in Nato is probably a bad idea.
So it’s OK to sit back and let Europe fall to the Russians. If I recall correctly, last time we Let Europe fall to another country, Germany, it turned out really well. So I can see why we would want to repeat that again. :roll:
No, it's not but, again, I understand you need to pretend otherwise.
And rationality? Why try and reference something that completely alien to you? What's the point?
So, 'I know you are but what am I?' is the best you can come up with. 23,350 posts. Zero content.
Except, of course, for the pesky little fact that I haven't done that.
Your imagination is really on display today, together with that intellectual dishonesty that you're so famous for.
Yay for such an active fantasy life.
Trump knew enough to know some NATO members weren't kicking in their fair share and spoke about it. Result: 100 billion new dollars and the praise of NATO General Secretary.You and trump are pretty ignorant about NATO and the EU. Either that or you are not even American.
https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters...Towards a stronger EU on security and defence
https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-Homepage/28286/eu-nato-cooperation-factsheet_en
Europe’s militaries are undersized, underfunded, and manned in large part by complete pacifists.
For example, the Garmisch, Germany "named base" with its 72 personnel has eight distinct sites large enough to be listed in the Army's Individual Service Inventory list: Artillery Kaserne, Breitenau Skeet Range, Garmisch Family Housing, Garmish Golf Course, General Abrams Hotel And Disp, Hausberg Ski Area, Oberammergau NATO School, and Sheridan Barracks (listed in Army-15 to Army-17). These range in size from Ramstein AB with 9,188 active, guard/reserve, and civilian personnel
Germany and France are far more likely to work with Russians than not.
Poor guy. If there were no content, you wouldn't have anything to reply to. Nice self-pwnage.
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Russia isn’t nazi Germany. Hell, its not even communist anymore. Are we to keep the French from invading Germany? Italy? Who cares?
23,355 posts. Zero content.
A lot of history, from the war of 1812, to World War I, to World War II, to 9/11, etc...suggests that eventually...
We will.
The Nato secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said the allies would respond with troop pledges totalling at least 5,000. But European leaders' warm words for Barack Obama's speech were not matched by combat commitments and it was not clear where the 5,000 were coming from. At best, a couple of thousand were pledged, raising the non-US contingent to about 40,000, compared with 100,000 US forces.
Britain pre-empted the Obama speech earlier this week by announcing 500 more troops for Afghanistan, bringing the UK total to around 10,000, the second biggest force. Poland said it would send a further 600, Spain talked of 200, and Georgia said 900.
The big European countries were markedly reluctant and even Rasmussen's 5,000 was considerably below the 8,000-10,000 the Americans are believed to be asking for......
The US maintains nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and territories abroad—from giant “Little Americas” to small radar facilities.
Countries with US military bases and facilities
The largest of these is Ramstein, in Germany.
Base Structure Report - fy 2015
There is very little, if any, chance that Russia could win an offensive war against the United States, let alone the entire North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's not happening. Sorry.
In other words, it doesn't matter how underfunded and ill-equipped most of the EU is, since the EU is a supranational economic entity headed up by Germany and France (two of the top 10 most powerful armed forces on Earth) and NATO has the United States, which outspends the next nearest 11 competitors by a wide WIDE margin (35% of the entire global military spending OF THE ENTIRE PLANET).
Not if Article 5 is activated. And this wouldn't be a war of aggression based on lies ala Iraq, it would be a visible and direct reaction to Russian aggression.
LOL! Every time you post that, you prove my point for me.
I order you to post that again.
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