Ukraine II: The Fight Against Russian Aggression

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Pacer92 said:
Both of these are peninsulas which naturally protrude into proximity of Alaska and our ally Japan...

You and I both would expect Russia to arm this area(since its inside their own borders)...the same as us and Japan...

I'm talking about massing troops and armor on the US border via another sovereign country...

And neither of these places border the US, btw...
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lol, i am going to remember this the next time you freak out about a ship in the Mediterranean or any forces in Poland (its not "Russia's" border)
 
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LouderVol said:
and its part of NATO and sovereign nation and doesn't need Russia's approval to do what it wants inside its own borders.
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Which makes my original point with Russia...when NATO countries do it, it's business as usual. When Russia does it, operation Barbarossa in reverse is looming...
 
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Pacer92 said:
Which makes my original point with Russia...when NATO countries do it, it's business as usual. When Russia does it, operation Barbarossa in reverse is looming...
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When NATO countries do its like 3 brigades. When Russia does it its an entire guards army group.
 
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carlos86 said:
When NATO countries do its like 3 brigades. When Russia does it its an entire guards army group.
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Have you looked at the disparity in size of Russia's military versus Poland's or Lithuania's?

Poland only has 170k total active duty soldiers in its whole miltary...Lithuania has around 35k...

Russia has 850k active duty, plus 2 million reserves..

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that Russia's drills will be significantly larger...
 
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Pacer92 said:
Have you looked at the disparity in size of Russia's military versus Poland's or Lithuania's?

Poland only has 170k total active duty soldiers in its whole miltary...Lithuania has around 35k...

Russia has 850k active duty, plus 2 million reserves..

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that Russia's drills will be significantly larger...
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Russia's army has 270,000 personnel and 750,000 reserve. The U.S. has an active duty army of 460,000 and an reserve of 500,000 and we never have an exercise larger and 1 brigade.
 
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American Member of Security Watchdog Group Killed in Ukraine

A U.S. member of European security watchdog OSCE's monitoring mission in eastern Ukraine was killed and two other people were injured after their vehicle drove over a mine near Luhansk, U.S. and European officials confirmed Sunday.

The American was killed — the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's first casualty ever — and a German woman was injured Sunday morning, a spokesman for Austria's Foreign Ministry said. One other person was injured; his or her identity was unknown.
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Pacer92 said:
Lol...

https://sputniknews.com/us/201705031053255410-comey-russia-hearing-senate/
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How did he come to the conclusion no charges were warranted?

“Somehow, her emails were being forwarded to Anthony Weiner, including classified information,” Comey said. He later added, “His then-spouse, Huma Abedin, appears to have had a regular practice of forwarding emails to him for him to print out for her so she could deliver them to the secretary of state.”
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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/25/trump-nato-russia-europe-238797

"When German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited President Donald Trump at the White House in March, she brought a visual aid to help Trump understand the menace posed by his would-be friend, Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Merkel brought a 1980s map of the former Soviet Union and noted the way its borders stretched for hundreds of miles to the west of Russia’s current boundary, according to a source who was briefed on the meeting. The German leader's point was that Putin laments the Soviet Union’s demise and, left unchecked, would happily restore its former borders. Merkel left Washington unconvinced that Trump had gotten the message, the source said. (A White House official said a top Merkel aide showed such a map to national security adviser H.R. McMaster, though neither the official nor a spokesman for the German embassy would provide details on Merkel's private meeting with Trump.)"
 
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carlos86 said:
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/25/trump-nato-russia-europe-238797

"When German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited President Donald Trump at the White House in March, she brought a visual aid to help Trump understand the menace posed by his would-be friend, Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Merkel brought a 1980s map of the former Soviet Union and noted the way its borders stretched for hundreds of miles to the west of Russia’s current boundary, according to a source who was briefed on the meeting. The German leader's point was that Putin laments the Soviet Union’s demise and, left unchecked, would happily restore its former borders. Merkel left Washington unconvinced that Trump had gotten the message, the source said. (A White House official said a top Merkel aide showed such a map to national security adviser H.R. McMaster, though neither the official nor a spokesman for the German embassy would provide details on Merkel's private meeting with Trump.)"
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These people still think we are fighting the Cold War. Russia learned a painful lesson after 80 years of communism. At the most, Putin has no issues with conducting trade and having economic agreements with the FSU states, but Putin has no desires to build an empire. Merkel and the neo-cons are spreading fake news.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
These people still think we are fighting the Cold War. Russia learned a painful lesson after 80 years of communism. At the most, Putin has no issues with conducting trade and having economic agreements with the FSU states, but Putin has no desires to build an empire. Merkel and the neo-cons are spreading fake news.
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Putin literally wrote a doctoral thesis on how Russia should fight the 2nd Cold War.
 
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carlos86 said:
Putin literally wrote a doctoral thesis on how Russia should fight the 2nd Cold War.
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If true, that was over 35 years ago during the peak of the Cold War. The collapse of the USSR and failures of communism had not occurred yet. People and situations change.
 
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