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Biden has a history of bad foreign policy decisions.
In terms of NATO, the Commanders will be reviewing the situation, although it is unlikely that Russia or NATO will want to engage each other militarily.
NATO has a battlefield command unit that can quickly take command of 160,000 troops, it's known as The Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC), and is based in Gloucester in England. ARRC is made up of hundreds of military commanders, who can quickly take control of a large force, with a number of allied divisions and specialist units aligned to it, from several NATO countries.
Divisions ARRC would take control of include the Italian Division "Acqui", the Danish Division, the 1st Canadian Division, the 3rd (United Kingdom) Division, and the U.S. 4th Infantry Division. Tese units assigned to form part of the ARRC if the corps were to be deployed, although other units could join as required. In 2021, the United Kingdom's 104 Theatre Sustainment Brigade was transferred under direct control of HQ ARRC. The United Kingdom's 1st Signal Brigade joined by October 2021.
There is also the NATO Response Forces including the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) which France currently leads, whilst the UK and France have a Combined Joint Expeditionary Force with joint land, sea and air units, this includes a partnership between 16 Air Assault Brigade of the British Army and 11e Brigade Parachutiste which includes the Foreign Legionnaires of the 2e REP.
In terms of the US has it also has 'The Immediate Response Force' (IRF) is a rapid reaction force jointly maintained by the United States Army and United States Air Force capable of deploying worldwide within 18 hours of notification.
So units could be put in to place relatively quickly should the situation require.
If that is your view then why have alliances and allies, or be part of NATO.
Some Americans think the US is separated from the entire world when in reality if the whole world burns in a modern war, then you burn with the rest of us. and the planet dies.
Delusions of exceptionalism will not help you in such circumstances.
Has nothing to do with it.....I don't think we're any better than anyone else. I just think we gain absolutely nothing from letting our sons and daughters die in some foreign hellhole
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Has nothing to do with it.....I don't think we're any better than anyone else. I just think we gain absolutely nothing from letting our sons and daughters die in some foreign hellhole
I don't think the US is actually going to send troops to Ukraine, it's merely supporting nearby NATO countries.
Putin is not stupid and won't want to engage NATO forces.
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"Biden has a history of bad foreign policy decisions."
He IS 1 of he dems who voted to invade Iraq!
I certainly don't think we should engage with Russia unless they attack a NATO member country.
However if they do invade then economically that should be it for Russia and Germany and Europe are going to have to find an alternative to Russian energy.
I don't think the US is actually going to send troops to Ukraine, it's merely supporting nearby NATO countries.
Putin is not stupid and won't want to engage NATO forces.
I certainly don't think we should engage with Russia unless they attack a NATO member country.
However if they do invade then economically that should be it for Russia and Germany and Europe are going to have to find an alternative to Russian energy.
My son got a call this morning from an Army recruiter asking him if he would like to re-enlist with a hefty sign-on bonus.
He told them "No thanks".
Has nothing to do with it.....I don't think we're any better than anyone else. I just think we gain absolutely nothing from letting our sons and daughters die in some foreign hellhole
"I just think we gain absolutely nothing from letting our sons and daughters die in some foreign hellhole", like France, Germany, Italy, etc.
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As predicted the US withdrawal from Afghanistan has handed ever more global influence to both China and Russia, as well as emboldening US enemies, who see American intervention as increasingly unlikely.
"Two years on from the US flight from Afghanistan, the terrible costs are only now becoming clear" -
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Psychologically, America’s clout in the developing world, already declining as China’s increased, took a further hit with the flight from Kabul. China’s economic inroads, bringing African countries into its infrastructure programme – the Belt and Road Initiative – are now eclipsing US trade and investment in Africa. Russia, through the malign influence of the paramilitary mercenary Wagner Group, is also expanding its footprint in the continent at the expense of the US. Its tentacles today reach Mali, the Central African Republic, Sudan and Libya.
There are now suggestions that Wagner may enter Niger to support the coup leaders who last month detained and deposed the democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum. Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, this week expressed his concern at such a prospect. “Every single space that Wagner has gone, death, destruction and exploitation have followed,” he said, correctly.
The trouble is, after the flight from Kabul, nobody believes the US has the gumption to do anything about it.
At the same time Biden's new strategy in relation to Chinese in relation to trade tariffs and restrictions including investments is just seeing Chinese goods assembled in other nations and ever more Chinese investment in the Asian region, as well as countries such as India and beyond, thereby increasing links between China and these countries, which is the polar opposite of the effect the US wanted to achieve.
Joe Biden’s China strategy is not working - Supply chains are becoming more tangled and opaque
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Dig deeper, though, and you find that America’s reliance on China remains intact. America may be redirecting its demand from China to other countries. But production in those places now relies more on Chinese inputs than ever. As South-East Asia’s exports to America have risen, for instance, its imports of intermediate inputs from China have exploded. China’s exports of car parts to Mexico, another country that has benefited from American de-risking, have doubled over the past five years. Research published by the imf finds that even in advanced-manufacturing sectors, where America is keenest to shift away from China, the countries that have made most inroads into the American market are those with the closest industrial links to China. Supply chains have become more complex, and trade has become more expensive. But China’s dominance is undiminished.
What is going on? In the most egregious cases, Chinese goods are simply being repackaged and sent via third countries to America. At the end of 2022, America’s Department of Commerce found that four major solar suppliers based in South-East Asia were doing such minor processing of otherwise Chinese products that they were, in effect, circumventing tariffs on Chinese goods. In other areas, such as rare-earth metals, China continues to provide inputs that are hard to replace.
More often, though, the mechanism is benign. Free markets are simply adapting to find the cheapest way to supply goods to consumers. And in many cases China, with its vast workforce and efficient logistics, remains the cheapest supplier. America’s new rules have the power to redirect its own trade with China. But they cannot rid the entire supply chain of Chinese influence.
Much of the decoupling, then, is phoney. Worse, from Mr Biden’s perspective, his approach is also deepening the economic links between China and other exporting countries. In so doing, it perversely pits their interests against America’s. Even where governments are worried about the growing assertiveness of China, their commercial relationships with the biggest economy in Asia are deepening. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, a trade deal signed in November 2020 by many South-East Asian countries and China, creates a sort of single market in precisely the intermediate goods in which trade has boomed in recent years.
For many poorer countries, receiving Chinese investment and intermediate goods and exporting finished products to America is a source of jobs and prosperity. America’s reluctance to support new trade agreements is one reason why they sometimes see it as an unreliable partner. If asked to choose between China and America, they might not side with Uncle Sam.
The Biden administration has provided more than $2.35 billion in taxpayer dollars to Afghanistan since the Taliban retook control of the government in 2021 following a deadly U.S. evacuation.
The United States remains Afghanistan’s top patron, even as lawmakers and federal oversight officials warn that these funds could be propping up the Taliban’s terrorist government. Updated spending figures were disclosed Tuesday in a report by the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR), a federal watchdog that documents waste, fraud, and abuse related to U.S. expenditures in the war-torn country.
It apparently wasn’t enough to pull out of Afghanistan with no warning to our Allies. Leave Billions in Military Equipment and cause the deaths of over a dozen US Soldiers — now we actually give Billions of dollars we have to borrow to this Terrorist Leadership in Afghanistan.
Our Foriegn Policy is a Disaster, an expensive Disaster at that.
The Biden administration has provided more than $2.35 billion in taxpayer dollars to Afghanistan since the Taliban retook control of the government in 2021 following a deadly U.S. evacuation.
The United States remains Afghanistan’s top patron, even as lawmakers and federal oversight officials warn that these funds could be propping up the Taliban’s terrorist government. Updated spending figures were disclosed Tuesday in a report by the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR), a federal watchdog that documents waste, fraud, and abuse related to U.S. expenditures in the war-torn country.
It apparently wasn’t enough to pull out of Afghanistan with no warning to our Allies. Leave Billions in Military Equipment and cause the deaths of over a dozen US Soldiers — now we actually give Billions of dollars we have to borrow to this Terrorist Leadership in Afghanistan.
Our Foriegn Policy is a Disaster, an expensive Disaster at that.
Treason. Colluding with the enemy.
Honest to God, how much worse can it get under this regime?
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