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© Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.NATO ponders ground force in Baltics
By ROBERT BURNS and DEB RIECHMANN STUTTGART, Germany©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Wc626
Oh please. Commander-in-retreat Obama is a coward. He'd never allow that. He's all talk. Perhaps Putin should give obama a debriefing on leadership when he exits the White House.
gelendestrasse
With the Russians in Ukraine the Baltic States and Poland are feeling vulnerable. As NATO members they are going to be seeking protection. If Putin wasn't pushing the military to prop up his dictatorship none of this would be necessary but there you are.
FizzBit
Oh great idea.....send some German soldiers to the Russian border. Well, that's one way to finally provoke the Russian people. The ruling cabal will finally get their war, the MSM tools will sell it just like they sold the clueless on Iraq.
SuperLib
Which country has expanded it's borders?
FizzBit
Biting my fingernails waiting for the answer. Since NATO isn't a country they are free from this question. But any geopolitics student would disregard this simplistic question.
Kingston Obike
Thus, the ushering of another cold war era; its spy time, its suspicion time and its competition time. Try encircling a wolfpack and they are sure to respond at some point.
FizzBit
Well said Obike. The leaders of the "modern" world don't really care about the average. Look at Hillary Clinton's success for a perfect example.
badsey3
One day they are asking Russia for assistance in Syria and the next they are looking at ways to attack Russia. There is no need for a NATO attack force in the Baltics or Russian at this point. The Secretary of State (John Kerry) should step down if he continues this foolishness.
maglev101
Same situation regarding China too. One day they're asking China for assistance in N. Korea and the next they're looking at ways to attack China.
CrazyJoe
"The NATO alliance is considering establishing a rotational ground force in the Baltic states and possibly Poland, reflecting deepening worry about Russian military assertiveness, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday."
But Russia disbanded the Warsaw Pact and the USSR. The West, meanwhile, chose to expand NATO all the way up to Russia's frontiers, even in spite of the latter's vociferous objections.
Who is really the aggressor?
badsey3
"NATO will not move one inch further east."
lostrune2
NATO finally showing some balls