Uncertainty Over U.S. Troops in Europe Sparks Anxiety Among Allies

[newbee2022]

3 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

They would be better paying for their own 35,000 troops, but they probably couldn't find that many willing to join the military without conscription. It's not an attractive career for soft boys that like to play games and look at porn on the internet in mummy's basement.

???😳 What do you mean? It's confusing. Who should pay for 35.000 soldiers? US govt?

[MicroB]

11 hours ago, KhunLA said:

I would love to see no US military overseas.  Total waste of lives, assets & money.  Bring 'em all home 😎

 

Well, you start saving money by laying off the troops., and reducing headcount I believe its pretty common for service to be ended with no severance pay. They can take all those Aazon van drivng, crop picking, toilet cleaning, gardening roles now available.

 

The US will also need to find barrack accomodation for returned troops. Currently, under Forces Agreements, the host countries provide, fund and maintain accomodation. The American President has some experience of that, because his dad went from house builder to property developer when he built accomodation for war factory workers, as part of federal contractors; he was accused of being a war profiteer.

 

If a large standing army is maintained, the federal government will likely need to expropriate land to set aside for expanded ranges, to compensate for the loss of overseas training facilities. Unless they seize land, there will be a cost to that in compensating land owners,

 

You will miss that tax free American beer you can buy in Bangkok though.

[KhunLA]

2 minutes ago, MicroB said:

 

Well, you start saving money by laying off the troops., and reducing headcount I believe its pretty common for service to be ended with no severance pay. They can take all those Aazon van drivng, crop picking, toilet cleaning, gardening roles now available.

Or, they can help secure the border.  Assist with natural disaster relief as FEMA fails miserably.  

 

Those with skills, can simply enter the work forces, as many, like myself, joined to military to learn a skill.   Plenty of skilled service folks, that support fighting troops.  Those gung ho folks can be retrained to join the police forces around the country.  So they can raise the hiring standard again, instead of taking anyone, including criminals, as some departments have trouble filling the ranks.

 

The hatred & short sightedness of the left is blinding 

[Mike_Hunt]

It's time for the gutless Europeans to build a real army and defend themselves.   The US has been subsidizing the defenses of Europe since the end of WW2 at a great expense to the US taxpayer. 

[Mike_Hunt]

12 minutes ago, MicroB said:

 

Well, you start saving money by laying off the troops., and reducing headcount I believe its pretty common for service to be ended with no severance pay. They can take all those Aazon van drivng, crop picking, toilet cleaning, gardening roles now available.

 

The US will also need to find barrack accomodation for returned troops. Currently, under Forces Agreements, the host countries provide, fund and maintain accomodation. The American President has some experience of that, because his dad went from house builder to property developer when he built accomodation for war factory workers, as part of federal contractors; he was accused of being a war profiteer.

 

If a large standing army is maintained, the federal government will likely need to expropriate land to set aside for expanded ranges, to compensate for the loss of overseas training facilities. Unless they seize land, there will be a cost to that in compensating land owners,

 

You will miss that tax free American beer you can buy in Bangkok though.

In the end, this will save the US tax payer money.  Defend yourselves losers. 

[Dcheech]

11 hours ago, KhunLA said:

I would love to see no US military overseas.  Total waste of lives, assets & money.  Bring 'em all home 

 

Were you saying that in 2003? It was all great fun, until it puckered up. Flavor of the month,  like neo-isolationism & bros with the Czar is today.

[KhunLA]

6 minutes ago, Dcheech said:

 

Were you saying that in 2003? It was all great fun, until it puckered up. Flavor of the month,  like neo-isolationism & bros with the Czar is today.

I've been saying that since the 1960's.  US military should defend the USA, and ain't nobody attacking since that last big one ended about 80 yrs ago.

 

Along with the 10s of thousands of soldiers lives lost, lives and families destroyed, what a waste of resources & tax dollars 

 

There is no justification for that.  Fight your own battles.

[ronnie50]

12 hours ago, wwest5829 said:

Like WW I and WW II?

You mean the two world wars that the US stayed out of for the first 3 years and 2 years respectively? Seems to be a centuries-old pattern there..

[frank83628]

5 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

You should. The world you live in was created by those two events, and those that forget history are condemned to repeat it.

Like the entire US government has since?