In Warsaw NATO hopes to show unity after Brexit

[Publicus]

Good news as expected for the good guyz. Bad news for the Putin fanboyz or for those who see no threats to Europe from the Czarist-Chekist Vladimir Putin in his revanchism and irredentism. It is also bad news to the rightwhinge in the USA who would be satisfied to leave Europe to itself apart from the US in a continent dominated by warhorses returned to circa 1900.

Today's news from Nato...

Britain affirms commitment to NATO’s eastern flank after Brexit

Britain has pledged one of four additional multinational battalions to be stationed in the Baltic states. Troops are pledged by the US, Germany, and Canada, besides Britain.

500 British troops will deploy in Estonia and 150 in Poland to replenish the forces supporting the eastern flank of NATO in order to deter Russia.

https://www.neweurope.eu/article/britain-affirms-commitment-natos-eastern-flank-brexit/

The naive will be disappointed. The Putin fanboyz will take it right in the heart.

[Kiwiken]

Good news as expected for the good guyz. Bad news for the Putin fanboyz or for those who see no threats to Europe from the Czarist-Chekist Vladimir Putin in his revanchism and irredentism. It is also bad news to the rightwhinge in the USA who would be satisfied to leave Europe to itself apart from the US in a continent dominated by warhorses returned to circa 1900.

Today's news from Nato...

Britain affirms commitment to NATO’s eastern flank after Brexit

Britain has pledged one of four additional multinational battalions to be stationed in the Baltic states. Troops are pledged by the US, Germany, and Canada, besides Britain.

500 British troops will deploy in Estonia and 150 in Poland to replenish the forces supporting the eastern flank of NATO in order to deter Russia.

https://www.neweurope.eu/article/britain-affirms-commitment-natos-eastern-flank-brexit/

The naive will be disappointed. The Putin fanboyz will take it right in the heart.

Of course the UK will do this. But what of Germany having reduced its readiness by 90% since 1990 . Only the UK and France have anything of note. The rest just happy to coat tail. If Europe put economic penalties on the UK I wonder how long those troops will be available?

[Publicus]

Good news as expected for the good guyz. Bad news for the Putin fanboyz or for those who see no threats to Europe from the Czarist-Chekist Vladimir Putin in his revanchism and irredentism. It is also bad news to the rightwhinge in the USA who would be satisfied to leave Europe to itself apart from the US in a continent dominated by warhorses returned to circa 1900.

Today's news from Nato...

Britain affirms commitment to NATO’s eastern flank after Brexit

Britain has pledged one of four additional multinational battalions to be stationed in the Baltic states. Troops are pledged by the US, Germany, and Canada, besides Britain.

500 British troops will deploy in Estonia and 150 in Poland to replenish the forces supporting the eastern flank of NATO in order to deter Russia.

https://www.neweurope.eu/article/britain-affirms-commitment-natos-eastern-flank-brexit/

The naive will be disappointed. The Putin fanboyz will take it right in the heart.

Of course the UK will do this. But what of Germany having reduced its readiness by 90% since 1990 . Only the UK and France have anything of note. The rest just happy to coat tail. If Europe put economic penalties on the UK I wonder how long those troops will be available?

Putin is not going to mess with Nato no matter what.

Neither is UK or what might be left of it going to buddy up to Putin or allow Putin to dominate on the continent by any means. No one in Nato or EU accepts Russian dominance or rule over Europe.

Nato has kept Russia at bay since Nato was created in 1949 because Nato was created to do exactly and precisely that. Fortunately, the Nato mission has resumed after a brief lapse post-USSR and until Putin revealed himself fully. (Any Nato action anywhere else is marginal and minor to caging the revanchist and revisionist Czarist-Chekist Putin.

[midas]

This map is NATO expansionism. I don't see Russia invading anywhere ? it is the US/NATO expansion that is the problem.

Really? Tell me, have you ever heard of Ukraine?

Yes the place where a legitimate sitting president was chased out of the country which everyone knows was orchestrated by the West

[mommysboy]

Good for Europe UK has formidable forces, and nuclear capability. It all costs.

Maybe they need to give that a thought before imposing any trade barriers or tariffs.

[mommysboy]

Good news as expected for the good guyz. Bad news for the Putin fanboyz or for those who see no threats to Europe from the Czarist-Chekist Vladimir Putin in his revanchism and irredentism. It is also bad news to the rightwhinge in the USA who would be satisfied to leave Europe to itself apart from the US in a continent dominated by warhorses returned to circa 1900.

Today's news from Nato...

Britain affirms commitment to NATO’s eastern flank after Brexit

Britain has pledged one of four additional multinational battalions to be stationed in the Baltic states. Troops are pledged by the US, Germany, and Canada, besides Britain.

500 British troops will deploy in Estonia and 150 in Poland to replenish the forces supporting the eastern flank of NATO in order to deter Russia.

https://www.neweurope.eu/article/britain-affirms-commitment-natos-eastern-flank-brexit/

The naive will be disappointed. The Putin fanboyz will take it right in the heart.

Of course the UK will do this. But what of Germany having reduced its readiness by 90% since 1990 . Only the UK and France have anything of note. The rest just happy to coat tail. If Europe put economic penalties on the UK I wonder how long those troops will be available?

And maybe USA wants to think twice about any 'back of the queue comments'.

[MZurf]

This map is NATO expansionism. I don't see Russia invading anywhere ? it is the US/NATO expansion that is the problem.

Really? Tell me, have you ever heard of Ukraine?

Yes the place where a legitimate sitting president was chased out of the country which everyone knows was orchestrated by the West

Yes, of course. EVERYONE knows that! 5555555!

So that made the Russians theft of Crimea OK, right?

[Publicus]

This map is NATO expansionism. I don't see Russia invading anywhere ? it is the US/NATO expansion that is the problem.

Really? Tell me, have you ever heard of Ukraine?

Yes the place where a legitimate sitting president was chased out of the country which everyone knows was orchestrated by the West

The guy reneged on his campaign promise to sign a cooperation agreement with the EU. It infuriated a large number of Ukraine voters who took to the streets knowing the guy had been bought out by Putin.

So Putin moved in being the revanchist and irredentist that he is. Putin decided to dismember Ukraine rather than see it go to Europe instead of Moscow.

Putin fell flat a dozen years ago when he tried to use his invented term the "dictatorship of democracy" to describe his rule over Russia. Putin tried ever so unsuccessfully to adapt the Lenin-Stalin term "dictatorship of the proletariat" to his rule. This shows what an off the wall nutcake Putin in fact is. No clue of anything about democracy.

So it's vital that Nato keep keep Putin and his dictatorships in line and restrained against the nation states of Europe-Eurasia. To Putin democracy is a thing to destroy or short of that to exploit.

[Richard W]

Conflicts of Crimea and north-eastern Ukraine are resurgences of the former USSR with overwhelmingly pro-Russian populations. They do not concern us and we had no reason to intervene in this dispute.

Russia's bases in the Crimea prevented formally prohibited the Ukraine from joining NATO. By removing the Crimea from the Ukraine, there is now no formal reason why the Ukraine can't join NATO. Nice one, Putin.

Unfortunately, the 'protection' of Russian minorities does cause some EU countries disquiet, particularly the three Baltic states.

I thought I had already answered at length. In my naive eyes, the EU is a great power against the US supremacy and its association with Russia quickly would the first world power

When I contemplated the notion of the union of Yeltsin's 'common European homeland' through the accession of Russia to the EU, I recoiled at the prospect of having to defend Vladivostok against the Chinese. Russia has saved me the problem through the withering of its democracy.