The EU has a GDP of $17 trillion—-a figure approximately 9X that of Russia. If there is any one over there who actually believes that Putin is about to mobilize his troops on a reverse of Hitler’s march through the Ukraine and back into central Europe, let them make their case and take up a collection from the purportedly threatened states.
Quite obviously no one is making that case in Berlin, Brussels or any other significant European capital—for the simple reason that such a scenario is purely a figment of the Washington War Party’s imagination. So what we actually have is an American president on a photo op tour of Europe being importuned by local dignitaries for more Washington largesse. And the result will be more kidstuff maneuvers that are laughable in there own terms, but still another irritant in America’s utterly unnecessary confrontation with Russia.
In that regard, we have already witnessed the President of Poland, Bronislaw Komorowski, making this hideous remark as he stood with Obama alongside F-16s employed in joint training exercises between the two nations:
Mr. Komorowski said the U.S. and Poland are a “brotherhood in arms.”
Well, not at all. We are actually two nations at peace, and Poland is a fortunate nation that has been born again solely because of the sacrifices American taxpayers made for 50 years to first defeat its German occupiers and then to outlast its Soviet overlords.
So Poland is no longer a “captive nation” and is free to prosper as a burgeoning capitalist economy at peace. Its president, therefore, should have the good graces to dispense with cold war politics. He might have even asked how Poland should repay America for its steadfast support against real enemies in times past, not indulge in a saber-rattling shake-down for Washington dollars to enable it to engage in petty war game maneuvers for domestic political consumption. And that’s exactly what all this military dress parade stuff is all about: The US now has exactly 150 soldiers on temporary “rotational assignment” in Poland!
That should be an embarrassment that adult policy-makers would not dare even report publicly. Instead, far more than 150 diplomats, military advisers, and national security apparatchiks from the two nations are at this very moment haggling over how to slightly increase the size and deployment tempos of this ridiculously irrelevant token force.
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