Nato to expand "high readiness" troops from to 300K from 40K

Submitted by ban nock on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 6:14pm

High readiness means fully equipped and ready to fly anywhere on a moments notice. Many troops will be pre positioned and equipment stored close to Nato's eastern side. The Baltics are considered especially vulnerable to Russian aggression.

The invasion of Ukraine, and the way in which Russia has prosecuted it's war by purposely killing and terrorizing civilians has been a huge encouragement for all of Europe to join together in self defence.

300,000 troops all equipped with the most modern aircraft, armor, etc. would more than likely be enough to deter Russia from further invasions.

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Submitted by ban nock on Sun, 07/03/2022 - 4:23pm

@dystopian I don't do CT, you just

@dystopian I don't do CT, you just need to get over that. I use the AP and Reuters. Both of those sites do not do opinion, on anything. They report factual information, which is a great place to begin any discussion. I'm sure everyone here is a great person using the most factual sources etc. blah blah blah, but I've no time nor the inclination to go looking at weird CT web sites nor Russian propaganda.

Use AP, or Reuters, or even any news source that scores high on measures of veracity. If the source is so obscure as to not even be rated, too bad, I don't go there. No time.

Just a few quick thoughts... my dos centavos. It seems to me like the OP is merely repeating all of the MSM/see-eye-eh deep state talking points, nearly verbatim. It is as if he is one with them. Is it willful to stir shat? Intent is everything. Is it innocent naivete'? Purity of intent is everything. His talking points come from the Iraq WMD people, the Russiagate people, the Assad used gas people, the White Hats are good guys and Assange is bad, people, etc. He regurgitates it very well, sounds just like 'em. I quit watching TV to get away from it. He has stated he is not able to get more than a couple minutes into anything. Which should explain most of what you need to know. In other words, he is on sound bytes. That is why OP sounds like MSM sound bytes. He on them, he is taking them, I can tell. I think he is taking too many and may be addicted? He reminds me of my brother, believes anything that comes out of the boob tube. Often the authoritarian loves the authorities. The most unfortunate part is that virtually every claim he has made has been debunked multiple times with multiple sources here, more than extensively. Stellarly. He has ignored it all, to spew msm propaganda, to save us I suppose. All the factual thorough verified proven data here has had no impact on him, or those that are addicted to the msm soundbyte koolaid, like my bro. Obviously talking reason and logic doesn't work. A mountain of evidence is willfully ignored, which is why it is often called willful ignorance. Cognitive dissonance precludes upsetting the apple cart of their beliefs. I would have guessed the copious documentation here at this site that shows most of what he is saying to be propaganda, would have been more effective in helping others to understand. But you had to have watched the discussions, studied it, done the research, and used the resources provided here by all the great posters all the time. If you think the MSM is a good info source, how can you be informed? There is no cure for the closed mind. You can lead a horse to water... be well all

Submitted by lotlizard on Thu, 06/30/2022 - 1:46pm

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Submitted by Fishtroller 02 on Thu, 06/30/2022 - 4:58pm

Funny. I like it.

@lotlizard

Maybe there should be a sign outside the house with a list of animals who ARE welcome to come in.

Maybe on the Front Page?

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Thu, 06/30/2022 - 5:33pm

OK folks, pause and breathe! Speaking of Marine Mammals,

we mustelids can't take a day off ever. Y'all Just Cool It!!

This looks like MAGA GOP vs HillDems. Neither side will convince the other of anything. Neither side will change their views on anything. The more this goes on, the more people start pushing the envelope, accusing each other and on occasion the site of assorted things and some of those accusations (and associated insinuations) are most uncool.

Since it is guaranteed that nobody will be changing their minds you ought to seriously consider discussing baseball or pro soccer or religion. I really don't wish to even try to referee this shit so I'd really appreciate it if each participant would go spend 5 minutes in the penalty box contemplating just what this thread has accomplished and what it is likely that its continuation will accomplish and whether it will be the end of civilization as we know it if everybody just agreed to disagree and went off and played tic-tac-toe or sudoku or downloaded Duolingo and started learning urdu, ok?

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Submitted by usefewersyllables on Thu, 06/30/2022 - 6:08pm