U.S. Troops Going To Poland

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

By Fred Hiatt
April 18 at 3:53 pm

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.”

How likely is such a reversal on defense spending? Siemoniak said there was widespread support at a recent meeting of European defense ministers. “Now they’ll go back to their presidents, prime ministers and ministers of finance, and this will stop being easy,” he admitted. “But the impetus is very strong.”

The strongest impetus, he said, is not even Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, but President Vladimir Putin’s bald lies about Russian actions there and his exposition of a new doctrine allowing Russia to intervene in any country where Russian-speaking populations are, in Russia’s judgment, under threat. This poses a potential danger to the Baltic nations, which are members of NATO, and even more to Moldova, Belarus and central Asian nations that are not, he said.

Like President Obama, Siemoniak said it’s too soon to judge the agreement reached Thursday in Geneva to defuse tensions. He said he believes that Russia’s “special operation in eastern Ukraine didn’t go as planned” and that Putin may have decided to play a longer game.

“He holds different instruments that he can use to influence events in Ukraine,” Siemoniak said. Putin will keep in reserve the option of an outright military incursion, “but the political, military and financial costs would be gigantic.” The 46-year-old minister mused that until recently NATO was wondering what mission it would have, if any, once its troops came home from Afghanistan.

“Now we have an answer to that question,” he said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post...-minister-says/
 
Ironic. The department of defense has been scaling down US troop levels and shifting training to fight a more unconventional guerrilla warfare as opposed to the Cold War error or the first two world wars. I personally don't think the US would do anything militarily if Russia did invade.
 
Why send troops when another strongly worded letter or sanctions against a couple more rich Russians would surely do the trick?
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If we had real leadership here we might be able to garner enough respect for others to actually consider us relevant. Instead, the world laughs at our ineptitude. Heck, many Americans laugh.
 
Why anyone would have ever thought the Russians, by any name, would not take advantage of the first signs of weakness is a puzzle to me. They are like any bullies, weakness is what they look for. Why would anyone think they will change after all these decades. They are just doing what they do.
 
I regret that troops are going now when it would seem this whole thing could have been avoided by less time in mom jeans by oboma. His promised flexibility has born fruit. If they do go I hope this country can at least act right while they are in the field.
 
If o sends those troops into a major conflict with Russia without some real Military leadership and backing they will be a sacrificial lamb and o will crap his pants and say he's sorry. o is abundantly not qualified to make any Military decisions. o has purged most of the top Military Commanders because they didn't agree with his questions about firing on American citizens. Those Commanders/Military Leaders weren't a$$ kissing wimps like the political appointees that are now in their place. I believe that it was 3 top Commanders o fired because they wanted to strike the terrorists that were attacking our compound in Benghazi. It was only a day or so after Benghazi that heads started to roll, nothing obvious about what happened there. o couldn't allow our Military to kill any of his fellow friends in the muslim brotherhood. Pi$$es me off. What really pi$$es me off is that o will never be held responsible. I just hope o doesn't make any more significant unqualified decisions and kills any more of our troops. (end rant)
 
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As far as Bengasi, perhaps troops could have not arrived in time to prevent what happened, but when spooky did arrive they sure could have curtailed the celebration and opened the way for retaking the embassy. I think the troops would have enjoyed reclaiming that spot of land if there was not anything left standing but a spot of goat poop. The feds say they have a hard time determining who is responsible. I say the ones responsible for the action and the ones responsible for doing nothing are all responsible, so let the dogs lose.
 
It doesn't matter what this administration says, every time they open their mouths they are lying. What they were up to at Benghazi was totally illegal and the truth will never be aired. The whole bunch of them would be in jail if it was.
 
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