Czech Defense Minister sees no NATO troops stationed on Czech soil.

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Yahoo News / Reuters

PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic does not favor hosting foreign NATO troops as part of the alliance's plans to boost its eastern wing over the Ukraine crisis, its Defense minister said, in sharp contrast to some of its regional peers.

Martin Stropnicky, whose country joined NATO along with Poland and Hungary in 1999, also accused Russia in an interview of waging a "disinformation campaign" in the Czech Republic and elsewhere in Europe over its policies and goals in Ukraine.

NATO's top military commander, U.S. Air Force General Philip Breedlove, said last week the alliance would have to consider permanently stationing troops in eastern Europe as a result of increased tensions between Russia and Ukraine.

Poland has asked for a permanent NATO presence on its soil and says it is working on practical proposals to be discussed at the alliance's summit in Wales in September. But Prague, invoking its Cold War history, is much less keen.

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[iamthebandfanman]

1. Okay but...

they don't even border the Ukraine..
not sure why thered be troop buildup there anyway.

[JackRiddler]

2. As if there's logic in any of it.

Are you an American? Do you really think the U.S. needs 800+ overseas bases or whatever plus all those carrier groups, satellites, air fleets, drones, and a surveillance empire to defend you against "terrorism" or Russia? Why is on the U.S. to police and influence the situation in every country on earth. It's about imperialism, the military-industrial complex eating your taxes, and geopolitical wankers living out every insane scenario they can devise. In the name of "realism," also, which is hilarious.

[quadrature]

3. tell your fairy tale to the people of the Baltics

see what they tell you.

[JackRiddler]

4. You think it's the U.S. military's job to

prepare for a war with Russia over the Baltic states?

Speaking of fairy tales!

War is obsolete and those who think of ways to style its continued use as defense or something constructive are part of the problem.

If the U.S. is interested in defending the world against aggressors, it should be convening summits to effect disarmament -- conventional as well as WMD -- and end the international arms trade, and reinvest all the resources wasted on military ends into sustainable development.

All else is realpolitik wankery as the Titanic steams ahead into the iceberg.

The U.S. should have never backed the coup d'etat in the Ukraine. Without that, Russia had neither reason nor interest nor pretext to make any of the moves it's currently engaging in. "Defense" and geopolitical maneuverings, interventions everywhere cause the very problems they supposedly address.