On US troops to Europe, let’s get a grip. There are 130,000 Russian troops near Ukraine. US is sending 1,700 new troops to Romania & 1,000 Germany-based ones to Poland—on a temporary basis. For comparison, 20,000 Americans were involved in the Trident Juncture exercise in 2018.
And this isn’t even getting into the sort of troops that are being sent. We aren’t exactly talking about heavy armour and heavy firepower.
https://twitter.com/noclador/status/1490080244497367051
These troops are not there to deter a Russian attack on Ukraine. They’re there to reassure vulnerable Nato allies in the midst of the biggest troop build-up and military crisis in Europe for a generation. For better or worse, they’re a visible and tangible sign of US commitment.
The pt is not that main threat is Russian invasion of Nato. It’s that war would bring huge spike in Nato-Russia tensions w/ potential confrontations over range of issues (arms supplies, Black Sea activity), and Nato does not want to be vulnerable or coerced in any such crisis.
https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1490078320113119232
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