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re: Rubio: US Military bases in Europe are useless if we can't use them when we need them
Posted on 4/6/26 at 10:55 am to stout
Posted on 4/6/26 at 10:55 am to stout
I agree with this 100%.
They're either our bases we pay for or they're they're bases they pay for and we choose whether to deploy to but we should absolutely not be paying to maintain bases that we can't use as needed.
They're either our bases we pay for or they're they're bases they pay for and we choose whether to deploy to but we should absolutely not be paying to maintain bases that we can't use as needed.
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Posted on 4/6/26 at 10:55 am to SirWinston
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Im sure Europe is frightened of a exhausted Russia who cant push to within 400 km of Kiev in 5 years
How are you this dumb?
Do you understand that US weaponry is the exact reason why Ukraine has been able to hang on this long?
Now imagine we stopped supporting Ukraine and the UN, what Russia and China could do to that part of the world.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 11:05 am to stout
Upon abandonment of any bases, immediately destroy all assets paid for by our tax dollars. Buildings, roads, runways, other infrastructure etc. No sense in supplying the "enemy", we should have learned that by now.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 11:09 am to stout
He's not wrong. The US money that is put into these bases has a direct impact on that country's economy.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 11:09 am to SouthEasternKaiju
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80 years of paying for this stuff down the drain.
Those are sunk costs whether we stay or go. I'm not sure closing them is a good idea, but that we've operated them for 80 years is not a strong argument for paying for an asset you can't use.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 11:13 am to Wildcat1996
Sunk costs should never factor into discussions about potential new expenditures. Don’t throw good money after bad.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 11:14 am to Wildcat1996
We paid for them so that the Europeans could pay for healthcare and social engineering. We should expect a minimum amount of payback, if only in being allowed to use them as they were intended.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 11:15 am to SirWinston
You might be the dumbest person on this board.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 11:16 am to Don Quixote
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get out of NATO, close the bases and turn a deaf ear when the EU screams about the negative impact on their economy because we're pulling out of both
I said this last week - Europe would be better off without NATO. They are far too dependent on us, and the reason they are all fricked up now is because they can afford to be. You can afford to act stupid when you big brother is basically Mike Tyson in a room of 5th grade bullies.
It isn't in anyone's interest, including theirs, to be wholly reliant on us for their national security.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 11:17 am to stout
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Do you understand that US weaponry is the exact reason why Ukraine has been able to hang on this long?
It’s not even that. The objective of Russia’s special military operation was to take the three ethnic Russian speaking regions of eastern Ukraine being harassed and terrorized by the installed western backed government in Kiev. Putin could level Kiev tomorrow if he wanted to and Europe would still do nothing, nor would we because we won’t put boots on the ground, at least more than we already have in special ops.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 11:18 am to Boodis Man
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Little Marco needs to go back to school and learn that those bases are there for deterrence against NATO members, not to launch wars of aggression on a whim. Last I checked, iran ain't at war with nato members in europe
I suspect “Little Marco” possesses plenty of knowledge on the ever changing dynamics of foreign relations in this world and what may have evolved to be entangled alliances vs. truly beneficial alliances.
Certainly much more inside knowledge than an anonymous message board hack will ever possess.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 11:20 am to Ailsa
hawgfaninc posted that inside the top of page Iran thread.
LINK https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/
Johnkonrad, author of the post makes some good points.
LINK https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/
Johnkonrad, author of the post makes some good points.
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Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 11:21 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
It's not just that, US active duty presence at one of their installations drops a crap ton of revenue into their economies. Many of these idiots have went so far Green that the US dropping out would send their economies into a tailspin.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 3:19 pm to TurkeyBaconLeg
Hello guys, newbie from Western Europe here.
Can't ignore the news, that's why registered. This list of traitors, especially Spain, has a simple explanation: Sanchez is a communist. I hope you, dear Americans, are aware that a world communist revolution is currently underway?
Can't ignore the news, that's why registered. This list of traitors, especially Spain, has a simple explanation: Sanchez is a communist. I hope you, dear Americans, are aware that a world communist revolution is currently underway?
This post was edited on 4/6/26 at 3:24 pm
Posted on 4/6/26 at 3:23 pm to LLeD
Oh boy.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 3:25 pm to LLeD
How did you stumble on to a sports board with a political section?
Posted on 4/6/26 at 3:26 pm to stout
“I voted for this”
Posted on 4/6/26 at 3:27 pm to Boodis Man
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Boodis Man
Surely this is a Troll account. No way you can be this wrong so often and just keep eating the “L’s”.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 3:37 pm to stout
What we can't haul out, destroy it, down to the light bulbs. Their social programs will collapse when they have to fund their defenses out of their own pockets
This post was edited on 4/6/26 at 3:37 pm
Posted on 4/6/26 at 3:39 pm to Jbird
Purely by chance, came across the news that Marco said the Americans would leave NATO, was few times re-linked and land here.
Started reading your board, that you almost all say, that Europe should be left.
Guys, we will all be finished if you leave.
First ru-horde will be here, and in a few - chinese ccp
Started reading your board, that you almost all say, that Europe should be left.
Guys, we will all be finished if you leave.
First ru-horde will be here, and in a few - chinese ccp
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