Donald Trump wants to take some American soldiers from Germany.

9000 soldiers axed from budget.

 

It's all a sick show of muscles and testosterone here! Save yourself the trouble,take a deep breath and say these few words with faith in all your heart...Russia WILL not be defeated.

 

That was a refreshing point for view Mon amis !! Thank you for this intelligent response.

 

Cutting military spending when your country is falling apart at the seams does make sense in 2020.
Trump mad it clear from the outset that he preferred an amicable diplomatic relationship with Russia to a pointless standoff.
I agree that no other country would defeat Russia. My question is, why would they want to.?

Lets all calm down and increase tourism and friendship between the everyday people from other parts of the world. Once the people unite, governments will be forced to follow.
We tend to see Russia as some type of monster, but I wonder whether their police killed more than 1,000 of their own citizens last year by shooting them.?
It would also interesting to see how the number of people in prison in Russia compares with the US. We may be quite surprised if we knew the answer to that one

 

I thought they were there supporting Germany in a security capacity - against whom I haven't a notion. I will read the link, but why were troops there? If they were to serve a security function, that's one thing. If the United States is simply reigning in troops from bases where they aren't needed that's probably ok; though I don't agree with the President doing it at a whim.

 

It's hard to see past the teachings of my youth.
Russia, we were taught, was not to be trusted.
Even the cartoons pushed the narrative. Remember Boris Badinov and Natasha?

 

Me thinks that Boris, Natasha and Col. Klink are all in cahoots anyway

 

Yeah. Those three are the personification of evil

Thanks for the picture!

 

Thanks for your post that allowed me to remember the pic!

 

Don’t trust Russia and China!!!!!!
The government that is.
Facts.

 

But
If he wants to cozy up to Russia that's his business, although I find it a bit strange.
But alienating all our allies is something only a fool would do.
Such is the mind of Forrest Trump.

 

It is a bit of a catch 22 situation. It is ongoing tensions between Russia and the US that drives the military levels in western Europe. An overall drop in military spending would actually benefit us.

 

I worry more about China than Russia.
While they do not pose a military threat, we are sending them all our money down a one way street. Why would they want to invade, when they already own a large chunk of the US and western Europe.

 

Greed, power, control. Very much out there with stronger communist countries

 

The situation is far from simple, but my question is whether all of this happens as a DIRECT result of Putin, or is it something that has gone on since Stalin ruled.

Things need to change, but will diplomacy do more to diffuse the Russian situation when it becomes so obviously pointless.

As I said, a difficult situation.

I see some similarity with the to the events following WW! where the world crippled Germany to a point that more than 90% or the people supported and welcomed Adolf Hitler as their savior.
On top of the military loss of life, he went on to MURDER 21 million innocent citizens.

It is all to easy to allow history to repeat itself. We have to look at the bigger picture and take responsibility for the direction that WE are pushing it towards.