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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump pulling troops out of Germany
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alasdairlane/2020/06/16/trumps-plan-to-pull-us-troops-out-of-germany-explained/#751189457c7aHe's saying it's to save money. I think it's so he has more soldiers here to attack peaceful protesters. Trump has never made much of a secret of his desire to be a brutal strongman dictator.
Now I read he's deploying the NATIONAL GUARD for his fucking rally. for his hitleresque, deadly fucking rally.
I think my BP just inched up a few notches and as I write I'm in the virtual waiting room for my doctor appointment.
thoughts? Sometimes I fear I'm going over the edge of paranoia, but I never conceived of how bad he is even though I knew he would be a catastrophe as president. Stealing babies, caging them (now they're poisoning them with disinfectant), alienating every single ally we have, the corruption and the way it continues unstopped. No, I didn't know it would be this bad.
Anyhow. talk me down if you can, or tell me I'm not crazy. Thanks DU
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,166 posts)dameatball
(7,396 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)Pootie moved troops to his western border. This was coordinated by America's two worst enemies . . . Putin and Trump.
Russia Sends More Troops West, Signaling New Challenge to U.S.-NATO Presence Near Borders
BY TOM O'CONNOR ON 6/5/20 AT 3:46 PM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-sends-more-troops-west-signaling-new-challenge-us-nato-presence-near-borders-1509023
barbtries
(28,787 posts)this is certainly the consensus and makes sense as well.
it's not reassuring but discounts my nasty imagination at least.
moondust
(19,972 posts)"Somebody" needs more election help?
DSandra
(999 posts)It seems like the desire for power and power itself makes people like them go insane and turns them into monsters.
blm
(113,040 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,514 posts)Retaliation, pure and simple.
Sinistrous
(4,249 posts)C_U_L8R
(44,997 posts)Gotta take all the gains he can get while the getting is still good.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)This is not a matter of waving a wand and suddenly all the soldiers who were in Germany are flying back to the U.S. It will require months of planning to carry out.
In fact, one of the reasons that our overseas bases have remained in place all these years is because closing any of them would present some significant problems in finding employment for all those bodies if they were brought back to the U.S. all at once. It also would leave a significant hole in the local economies where the troops are stationed.
In any case, worrying about troops from Germany being deployed against us here is completely unrealistic.
The only thing any of us need to worry about is making sure we're doing everything we can to vote trump out of the presidency this November.
Marrah_Goodman
(1,586 posts)barbtries
(28,787 posts)thank you
roamer65
(36,745 posts)As they should.