re: NATO readies 300,000 troops for European Defense Against Russia

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Certainly don't disagree there if you're talking generally.

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I was, I just did a poor job of stating it.

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We didn't have a problem fricking over our allies when Biden fricked up the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Biden and company couldn't even beat back a third world terror group. But we're somehow supposed to start ww3 against a nuclear power...for supposed allies? I've never met those alleged allies. Will those alleged allies come and fight and die for me if I'm ever in trouble?

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After surviving the year’s deadliest firefight in Afghanistan, Sgt. Eric J. Harder made a humble request. The Fort Carson soldier phoned his mother, Mary Henry of suburban Minneapolis, and asked her to mail over a Minnesota Twins baseball cap — not for himself, he told her, but as a token of gratitude for a new brother.

In the chaos of the Oct. 3 assault on Combat Outpost Keating, Harder and fellow members of Fort Carson’s 3rd Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment welcomed two new comrades into their fold as they fought for their lives: A pair of Latvian soldiers who battled alongside them to defend their remote, mountain outpost from a well-armed enemy force. Eight from Fort Carson died in the daylong battle, in which several hundred enemy fighters took positions in the surrounding hills and raked the men with machine gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades.

Harder, 29, told his mother that if it hadn’t been for Janis Lakis, one of the Latvian soldiers, he might not have survived.

“He basically saved my life,” Harder told her. “I want him to have a Twins cap.”

Although Henry doesn’t know the full story behind Lakis’ intervention, those words were enough to earn him a place in her heart, and to convince her that a baseball cap wouldn’t settle the debt.

Lakis and the other Latvian soldier, Martin Dabolins, were assigned to the outpost near the Pakistan border to train members of the Afghan National Army. According to Henry, the Afghans fled when the shooting started, but Lakis and Dabolins fought valiantly alongside the Americans, cementing their bond.

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Sgt. 1st Class Janis Lakis woke up at 5:30 a.m. on Oct. 3, 2009, sipped some coffee and waited patiently to train Afghan soldiers, a routine set to begin in just an hour.

First, though, came the mortars, the screams of attack and the sight of shells exploding like popcorn.Nearly 10 months after the deadliest battle in 2009 for U.S. forces in Afghanistan, the two Latvian soldiers who fought there, along with their commander, reunited with their “American brothers” on Sunday, sharing their stories to attentive family members and quietly remembering those who lost their lives that autumn day.Gathering at VFW Post 3917 in Security with friends and family — many from the northeastern Europe country — Capt. Agris Liepins led many of the roughly 100 people in attendance in the singing of the Latvian national anthem.

'Then, he asked everyone to stand silently as they remembered the eight Fort Carson soldiers killed in the attack.

“On that day, we were family, we were brothers and everybody fought for each other,”

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When did Russia threaten NATO?


Since day one.

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Russia literally was the dominant force in defeating Hitler but unfortunately his Nazi's still exist under the guise of marxism in the USA. How the turntables huh brah?

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we can achieve total victory

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Who said anything about victory? Do you know how bad that would be for the unipary’s portfolios? Surely you jest.

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So if (when) Joepedo drags us into a hot war with Russia, are you going to volunteer to go?

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We ain’t going to war with Russia anytime soon lol.

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What is in the waters near the US Eastern Sea Board is known only to President Putin and Russian GS. In the end, there are these guys.

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Jesus H.

Again, where do you people come up with this shite?

I promise you - 1,000 times over - that we know every single fart from every Russian sub commander all over the world.

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U.S. would be incompetent in a land war without a turkey shoot against defenseless Iraqis

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He should ask the families of the Russian "contractors" who tested that theory in 2018 at Khasham.

Put them up against the Russian millions.

We'll call them cannon fodder.

I'm confused.... How long have they been struggling to take Ukraine? And they are going to open 2nd or 3rd fronts?

If they had overwhelmed Kiev and then had time to resupply...I would then think of the possibilities of other attacks being possible. But as is... You can't beat a lower tier opponent, you surely dontb waste manpower and armament on a second front ...against tougher opponents. This is either a show on Natos side or Kiev is close to losing?

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The 300k number is not US troops.

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How many troops does every country in NATO have when you add them all together. I heard a retired SAS soldier from the UK saying their forces are incredibly weak because of how low their numbers are. They couldn’t fight a war on one front without US help.