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"Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire" (arch-duke-maxyenko) 06/06/2020 at 17:44 • Filed to: None

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Goggles Pizzano > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 06/06/2020 at 17:47

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Now’s their chance!

fintail > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 06/06/2020 at 17:55

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I wonder if Putin paid for it or blackmailed for it.

Good distraction from the lackluster pandemic response, Marie Antoinette-type  devilspan, and general corruption of the regime.

Svend > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 06/06/2020 at 18:04

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I read a BBC article on this the other day.

I can’t find it but here’s a similar one from today. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52947056?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/us_and_canada&link_location=live-reporting-story

US President Donald Trump has approved a plan to withdraw 9,500 American troops from bases in Germany by September, US media say.

Mr Trump, who has long complained that European members of Nato should spend more on their own defence, reportedly wants US troop levels capped at 25,000.

I had heard some were being redeployed to Poland and another European country though.

facw > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 06/06/2020 at 18:12

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As mu ch as I’m worried about the US’s increasingly isolationist stance, I do think it’s unlikely that Soviet tanks are likely to come pouring through the Fulda Gap from East German anytime soon.

Possibly we should be re-deploying forces to Poland or the Baltic States though...  

SmugAardvark > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 06/06/2020 at 18:18

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The real question is: Did he think we were still at war with Germany?

For Sweden > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 06/06/2020 at 18:52

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Hot take: remove all troops from Germany and move them to Poland.

For Sweden > SmugAardvark 06/06/2020 at 18:53

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He remembers when they bombed Pearl Harbor

ranwhenparked > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 06/06/2020 at 19:05

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Are Germans upset about it? It was my understanding that basically every country with a large US troop presence pretty much wants us gone ASAP. South Korea, for example, has had a number of large, mass protests against the US military presence there, and Germany had pretty big anti-US military protests when we had a  big joint exercise with the Bundeswehr in 2018.

I mean, ultimately, this means dropping total combined US and German forces in Germany from like 219,000 to 210,000, but Germany has already announced plans to grow their army by an extra 20,000 troops in the next 5 years, so the difference is going to be made up regardless of what the US does.

I get the optics are problematic, but it doesn’t seem like it hurts NATO readiness that much, especially since it comes at a time when Germany is already undergoing a significant expansion of their own military.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Svend 06/06/2020 at 22:30

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Yeah cuz that’s what we need to be thinking about now. 

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > For Sweden 06/06/2020 at 22:31

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Maybe his German father was a stuka pilot at Pearl.