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"I sWARe we should hunker down in the Baltics full-time and beWARe of Russian aggression."
"I sWARe we should hunker down in the Baltics full-time and beWARe of Russian aggression."
McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said during a visit to Estonia on Tuesday that Washington should consider at least basing troops permanently in that country. He says the U.S. remains committed to NATO, but that having soldiers assigned to Estonia full-time instead of during rotations would strengthen military ties between the two nations.
McCain, a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is touring Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this week with fellow Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and Democrat Sen. Amy Klobuchar. The lawmakers also plan to visit Ukraine, Georgia and Montenegro.
if we have 'detered' Japanese aggression at Osaka [Link] 70 years later, or if we need to worry about Germans overwhelming our base(s) in their country. [Link] Or if the Italians [Link] are eyeing the land we occupy there with the goal of becoming land owners in their own country.
My guess is that we anticipated the desire for our presence to be minimized after these long decades and have stoked the fires of 'democratic freedom fighters' so as to create new welcoming arms accompanied by sachelfuls of dollars in parts of the world like the Middle East. Perhaps there is an 'under the table handshake agreement' with the intent of such and the expectation of our removal now compromised by the Aleppo citizens is causing a deep resentment in the EU that one sees in its NATO build up.
Many's the slip twixt the cup and the lip, so the quote goes.