It is sometimes difficult to separate the pacifists on the Left who simply do not like or trust the U.S. (including many or most Democrats), and the Isolationists from the Ron Paul camp who don’t want the expense or responsibility that comes with being the worlds only (for now) super-power. The Isolationists would argue that we say we do not want engagement but our actions belie that claim.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that NATO is preparing to deploy four battalions — approximately 4,000 troops — to Russia’s western border. US Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work was in Brussels today to announce the Western military escalation on Russia’s border, which he claimed was in response to Russian military exercises near the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
The US deputy secretary of defense explained in Brussels that the US must send these thousands of troops thousands of miles from the US because Russia is conducting military exercises on its own soil and the US finds that intolerable.
Said Deputy Secretary Work:
The Russians have been doing a lot of snap exercises right up against the borders, with a lot of troops. From our perspective, we could argue this is extraordinarily provocative behavior.
What is not made clear in the article but should not be lost on readers is that “right up against the borders” is still Russian territory. But “right up against the borders” on the other side — where the US military is to be deployed and to conduct exercises — is most definitely not US territory. In other words, the US is traveling thousands of miles to place its troops on Russia’s border in response to Russian troops inside its border.
IMO…. I Think The U.S. is The Aggressor….. Go Back Home where U belong…
You mean US Troops. Send Putin some toilet paper with Little Barack’s face on it.
It’s time to end the UN and nato
NATO will get their asses handed to them by Russia !