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U.S. Abruptly Cancels Deployment of 4,000 Troops to Poland (www.nytimes.com)

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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

A Pentagon spokesman declined to comment on Mr. Hegseth’s decision.

Mr. Trump has told reporters that troop cuts in Europe would go even deeper. He has insisted that “we’re cutting a lot further than 5,000” service members from Germany and threatened to also pull troops out of Italy and Spain, countries that the president says have not supported the administration’s goals in the U.S. war against Iran.

Idiots.

[-] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 28 points 1 week ago

Shhhhh, don't say anything. They might stop

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

I mean, reasonable drawdowns = good; angry baby breaking things = bad.

We only get the one kind at the moment. :(

[-] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 5 points 1 week ago

This is a gift to Putin

[-] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 11 points 1 week ago

No it isn't. American troops aren't reliable for protection against authoritarianism now anyway

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And Russia is about to lose to Ukraine, they certainly aren't going to beat the EU right afterwards.

[-] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Exactly. Viewing Russia as a legitimate threat any longer as a land power capable of executing a full scale peer to peer war is laughable.

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