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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2018.Trump says U.S. considering permanent military presence in Poland
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plasticmonkey
Good grief . . .
PTownsend
In other words Trump continues to sell his brand name, lending credence to those who claimed that was one of the goals of his political career.
CrazyJoe
Sucking up to Poland, give me a break.
Never mind this nonsense, when is Donald Trump going to pay a visit to the U.S. Military Troops in the battle zones overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan, every President in my lifetime and since FDR visited troops in the war zone; NOT DONALD TRUMP!
Bush, Obama, Biden, made multiple visits to the troops in the front lines, Trump has not even come close to going...…..what's wrong with this coward.
Goodlucktoyou
Next he will name an aircraft carrier after him.
lincolnman
Can you imagine naming a US military base after a 5-time draft dodger? Mind-boggling...
Fort Trump: Renown for its golf course, Playboy Club and hookers....
HonestDictator
While I can understand this move, once again Trump makes it toxic straight out the gate.
Toasted Heretic
Oddly, not a single one of my Polish friends "likes the idea very much". What one or two of them said is unrepeatable here.
Brand Trump, the ego. At a country near you, soon.
bass4funk
Great move, about time.
Toasted Heretic
I hope there will be the same resistance (now, as then) against this latest attempt to force an empire on not just Poland but any country that the US, Russia or China decides to grace with their presence.
Chip Star
Only if Poland pays its fair share, correct?
bass4funk
Empire???? Lol
Yeah, uh-huh...
Toasted Heretic
Poland has been abused and run by plenty of rotten empires over its existence. Could be another case of Stockholm syndrome at work but I do hope the people will reject this.
Precisely what it is. And all empires crumble. The US will not be the first, nor the last.
lostrune2
Can't blame Poland too much - it's a country that vanished on the world maps several times in history due to being picked apart by its neighbors
Heck, Hitler and Stalin made a pact to do just that. Then immediately followed by being annexed by the Iron Curtain
bass4funk
The Poles want and welcome the help of the US both countries are long allies and both can mutually benefit from each other.
The US is not an Empire, never was and never has been. Every time I hear that from the Marxist and leftists
Chip Star
The Poles and the US have only been allies since the fall of the Soviet Union. That is hardly a long time.
The US is an empire, just not in the sense that the U.K. was. It's more indirect, but still an empire. Acknowledging such has zero to do with Marxists or leftists.
bass4funk
That would depend on your perception of time. If you were born between the late sixties through the eighties and beyond, you will view it as a long time ago.
No, it is not and for the life of me, I don’t get how far left liberals think that. We are a republic.
Actually, it doesn’t because when I talk to far left progressives they always scream it.
plasticmonkey
Are Max Boot and Niall Ferguson Marxists and leftists?
Have you ever heard of Manifest Destiny?
Chip Star
When conservatives are demonstrated to be incorrect, the try to sidestep by saying something is relative. Brilliant.
Let's have a little intellectual honesty and admit "a long time" in the sense of being allies is more along the lines of the US/UK, US/France, US/Saudi alliances. You know, how everyone not in the conservative fantasyland thinks. ROFL.
Being a republic and being an empire are not mutually exclusive. By your logic, France ceased to be an empire when it became a republic. Literate people know better.
That is a completely irrelevant response to this:
What did we learn here? That intellectual honesty and relevant responses are necessary for adult conversations.