"U.S. ground troops going to Poland, defense minister says"

[applegrove]

U.S. ground troops going to Poland, defense minister says

By Fred Hiatt at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/04/18/u-s-ground-troops-going-to-poland-defense-minister-says/

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Poland and the United States will announce next week the deployment of U.S. ground forces to Poland as part of an expansion of NATO presence in Central and Eastern Europe in response to events in Ukraine. That was the word from Poland’s defense minister, Tomasz Siemoniak, who visited The Post Friday after meeting with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel at the Pentagon on Thursday.

Siemoniak said the decision has been made on a political level and that military planners are working out details. There will also be intensified cooperation in air defense, special forces, cyberdefense and other areas. Poland will play a leading regional role, “under U.S. patronage,” he said.

But the defense minister also said that any immediate NATO response to Russian aggression in Ukraine, while important, matter less than a long-term shift in the defense postures of Europe and America. The United States, having announced a “pivot” to Asia, needs to “re-pivot” to Europe, he said, and European countries that have cut back on defense spending need to reverse the trends.

“The idea until recently was that there were no more threats in Europe and no need for a U.S. presence in Europe any more,” Siemoniak said, speaking through an interpreter. “Events show that what is needed is a re-pivot, and that Europe was safe and secure because America was in Europe.”




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[applegrove]

1. I guess the US is going to try an arms race again. Plus the Russians will never have

an F 35 so they can kiss air superiority goodbye in a few years. I hope this is to try and bankrupt Putin. I hope it works and Putin backs down. I hope Putin backs down about now.

[RKP5637]

10. Yeah, a déjà vu. I better start practicing hiding under my PC desk and waiting for the bright flash.

Humans walk in deep circular repeating ruts, only the technology, names and places change.

[tazkcmo]

2. Yay!

Here's hoping for a new arms race! Go Raytheon!!!

[RKP5637]

12. As we used to say about some of the companies, if it lives, they kill it for profit. n/t

[MohRokTah]

3. Boeing and others thanks the Pentagon for this opportunity. eom

[pscot]

4. Strangelovian

[CFLDem]

5. Works for me!

Literally.

[applegrove]

8. Oh you!

[LittleBlue]

6. CHA CHING!

That's the sound our defense contractors hear.

More corporate welfare, yay!

[applegrove]

7. Exactly.

[The Straight Story]

9. Listening to the audio book of Alas, Babylon right now

It pairs well with this news.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Let me throw this here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024841666

And while a certain group of a-holes is toasting their good luck right at the moment it is more complicated than that.

OF course we could always back down, bring the troops home, and all that comes with that.

[oneofthe99]

13. .

[Riftaxe]

14. Water is wet!

Surely very few people are ignorant enough to not realize we already have troops there.


Scary headline but worthless as hell.