Yes, Fort Trump

Because NATO doctrine was originally to give up on these countries

Why the hell not

well poland was behind the iron curtain when NATO was formed...

Thats why poland wants a US military base, it means we wont give up on them

If we'd keep the Republican creation that is the ACA, I'd be happy to call it Trumpcare. Call everything Trump.

After the curtain came down I mean

Just stop playing politics with the vulnerable

The Nato plan was to give up on everything between russia's western edge and the eastern edge of germany

@Blackhawk342 , that isn;t the case since those nations became NATO

NATO has been forward locating forces even in the Baltics to move the tripwire forward

pretty sure NATO's real plan was to try to keep the russians away from the english channel

And NATO's biggest focus right now is how to defend against a cyber attack or asymetrical warfare in the Baltics.

yes and that only started in 2012

The West in the Cold War in a nutshell: "NO COMMIES ALLOWED ON MY MINECRAFT SERVER."

So renegotiate NATO and put an emphasis on those countries

before the Assault Breaker initiative, there was no stopping Russia.

The ones that have been reliable members

Up until then they had no forces in position to stop the russians before germany, assuming they came across the border in full force

You don't actually have to drop anyone

For about 30 years those countries were write offs in military strategy

Well, until 2012 there wasn't a lot of worry that Russia would be belligerent again. NATO wasn't sure why they existed anymore except to keep the US engaged in Europe.

Poland was the only country that had a strong standing army because they bought all of the soviet hardware when the USSR pulled out

Since 2014 the reason for NATO has been clear again

Meanwhile Russian subversive ops were still basically unintentionally in effect

Many europeans dont feel that they need NATO

even with the increased russian aggression and activity

Military strategies in WWII:

Germany - "We bomb them to Hell, then we send in troops and tanks to secure the area."

USSR - "Fuck it. Throw in everything we got. Let's see what happens."

Also Russia got aggressive with Georgia in 08

^First confirmed use of cyberwarfare as part of a military campaign

At least i think it was Georgia

The Washington Post has this report on Sayoc’s employment with a Florida pizzeria, and the white van he drove and was living in - which investigators seized earlier today.

Debra Gureghian, the general manager of New River Pizza and Fresh Kitchen in Fort Lauderdale, said that Sayoc worked as a delivery truck driver for several months until he quit in January.

“He was crazed, that’s the best word for him,” she said. “There was something really off with him.”

The white van he drove to deliver pizzas was covered in disturbing images, she said, so the restaurant required him to park it on the side where it could not be seen.

“It was puppets with their heads cut off, mannequins with their heads cut off, Ku Klux Klan, a black person being hung, anti-gay symbols, torchings, bombings you name it, it was all over his truck,” Gureghian said.

He was kept on because he did his work reliably and good drivers are hard to find, she said. But he disturbed his co-workers with racist comments and texts

This almost feels forced...

Like this is almost fabricated.

According to the filing, a fingerprint found on the package sent to Maxine Waters was matched to a fingerprint sample from Sayoc collected by law enforcement in Florida.

There is also “a possible DNA association” between Sayoc and samples recovered from the packaged addressed to Maxine Waters and Barack Obama.

Very dumb ...

Non-white man advocating the KKK 🤔

He couldn't even keep his finger prints off the bombs ...

One of those racially diverse white supremacists. They're everywhere these days.

He faces up to 58 years in prison.

In the FBI announcement they said the print was lifted off the envelope