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SomewhereInTheMiddle

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4. Or they could use service as a path to citizenship ...

Reply to EX500rider (Reply #3)

Fri May 30, 2025, 02:30 AM

May 2025

... for their growing immigrant population.

Trump pulling the US out of NATO leadership (literally or effectively) is a huge strategic mistake. Nothing could possibly go wrong with encouraging a peer competitor with whom we have fought multiple wars in the last 150 years to rearm and increase their military footprint.

But it is better for them and the world that the Europeans rearm than they fall to Russia and her allies.

What a world, what a world ...

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This message was self-deleted by its author GJGCA May 2025 #1

Hope they improve their training as well. And do rotating stationing of brigades forward in Poland and Baltic States. dutch777 May 2025 #2

Yeah for far too long they treated their militaries as a jobs program rather then a fighting force EX500rider May 2025 #3

Or they could use service as a path to citizenship ... SomewhereInTheMiddle May 2025 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author SomewhereInTheMiddle May 2025 #5

Good points. When the EU forces were larger they were all supported by a draft. Not a good attitude builder. dutch777 May 2025 #6