US Troops to Poland

[DrLeftover]

April 18

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.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/04/18/u-s-ground-troops-going-to-poland-defense-minister-says//?print=1

 

[Crusader]

Is it about to go down?

WW III is long over due so yes

Seriously though, it's just Russia and now the US flexing their muscles.

If it did go down, it'd also become a larger conflict because I'm sure the East will see it as an opportunity to get involved.

 

[DrLeftover]

The deployment is apparently in response to NATO concerns about Russian Aggression.

Mr. Obama has so far proved to be a totally impotent blowhard when it comes to US Policy in Europe.