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clambo
2020 Jul 29, 6:21pm
Yeah, I love it.
The American taxpayers have paid for the defense of Germany while they competed with us, and spent their money on their own people.
We know that the Germans will complain and they will be invited to MSNBC and CNN to badmouth Trump.
Let them handle their own business and defense.
The American taxpayers have paid for the defense of Germany while they competed with us, and spent their money on their own people.
We know that the Germans will complain and they will be invited to MSNBC and CNN to badmouth Trump.
Let them handle their own business and defense.
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GreaterNYCDude
2020 Jul 29, 10:16pm
Name a country we deployed military resources to and then subsequently left, completely, 100%. The list is probably shorter than you think...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:American_bases_worldwide.svg
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:American_bases_worldwide.svg
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MisdemeanorRebel
2020 Jul 29, 11:33pm
MisdemeanorRebel
2020 Jul 29, 11:33pm
clambo says
Even worse that that - Germany pays Russia billions to develop and sell natural gas via Nordstream, which the Russians redirect to tech and military updates. Germans are actually subsidizing Russian modernization.
Germany throttled about 2/3rd on their military personnel and more than half their expenditure since 1990, in fact they could not find a dozen functioning tanks a few years ago for a military exercise, it took them a week or so to get the parts and long delayed maintenance for them and bring them all together. Adjusted for inflation, Germany spends half today ($42B) what it did in the late 80s ($87B in modern money).
This was ONLY the Federal Republic, not the DDR counted at all, but modern Germany encapsulates both. If you added both DDR and FRG together, the military was probably cut 80%+ in personnel and 3/4 in budget.
The American taxpayers have paid for the defense of Germany while they competed with us, and spent their money on their own people.
We know that the Germans will complain and they will be invited to MSNBC and CNN to badmouth Trump.
Even worse that that - Germany pays Russia billions to develop and sell natural gas via Nordstream, which the Russians redirect to tech and military updates. Germans are actually subsidizing Russian modernization.
Germany throttled about 2/3rd on their military personnel and more than half their expenditure since 1990, in fact they could not find a dozen functioning tanks a few years ago for a military exercise, it took them a week or so to get the parts and long delayed maintenance for them and bring them all together. Adjusted for inflation, Germany spends half today ($42B) what it did in the late 80s ($87B in modern money).
This was ONLY the Federal Republic, not the DDR counted at all, but modern Germany encapsulates both. If you added both DDR and FRG together, the military was probably cut 80%+ in personnel and 3/4 in budget.
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zzyzzx
2020 Jul 30, 4:42am
zzyzzx
2020 Jul 30, 4:42am
GreaterNYCDude says
France.
Name a country we deployed military resources to and then subsequently left, completely, 100%.
France.
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GreaterNYCDude
2020 Jul 30, 5:23am
That's one.. but they didn't throw us out until 1966/7.
If not for that we would still be there.
View Nam is another one... but thats a whole nother story... generally we stay. Korea, Germany, Japan, Iraq, Afghanistan...
If not for that we would still be there.
View Nam is another one... but thats a whole nother story... generally we stay. Korea, Germany, Japan, Iraq, Afghanistan...
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RWSGFY
2020 Jul 30, 8:59am
RWSGFY
2020 Jul 30, 8:59am
Don't forget these traitorous fucks trying to block the deployment of Pershing II missiles in the 80s.
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Patrick
2020 Jul 30, 9:45am
Patrick
2020 Jul 30, 9:45am
GreaterNYCDude says
True, the US does tend to stay, and I can see the military wanting that even if it's not a good idea for the US overall.
I hope the military keeps supporting Trump.
View Nam is another one... but thats a whole nother story... generally we stay. Korea, Germany, Japan, Iraq, Afghanistan...
True, the US does tend to stay, and I can see the military wanting that even if it's not a good idea for the US overall.
I hope the military keeps supporting Trump.
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HeadSet
2020 Jul 30, 11:54am
HeadSet
2020 Jul 30, 11:54am
View Nam is another one.
Yet Vietnam has invited the US back, offering to lease out Cam Ranh Bay.
Yet Vietnam has invited the US back, offering to lease out Cam Ranh Bay.
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/07/11900-us-troops-leaving-germany-6400-returning-home/