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Some interesting remarks from the chair of Austria's NATO enlargement committee: "If you take it, we take every single base of the Americans from Aviano to Ramstein, from Romania, to all the other military bases will be confiscated, and you will lose it, and the whole position of American power...

There's the obvious other option... it was empty and just making a run for it.

"America is the only country in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval called civilization." attributed to French statesman Georges Clemenceau

Yep, half Irish (mom). I've thought about this option but never taken the necessary steps.

Probably very few, but would increase (just-in-time manning) when a BOXTOP mission was scheduled.

Those who have nothing worth dying for, have nothing worth living for.

At some point, it might be worth reminding the Americans that Europe and Canada hold $3.5T worth of their debt.

I'm reading reports of civil unrest in Venezuela tonight. This brings to mind a question. What happens if a new civil government forms and tells Trump et al to GTFO?

Big ass lawsuit inbound.

May you live in interesting times indeed:

Is it time to reread NATO Article 5 yet?

Invading and kidnapping the president (and his wife) of Venezuela, and charging him with exactly the same offences for which you pardoned the president of Honduras, is quite the mental gymnastics.

So by its own definition then, the US in now a rogue state?

IMHO, it will take a two, if not four successive Democrat wins to fully purge MAGA from the Republican party. It will take a generation to undo the harm done by the current administration. The respect lost by the american people will not be easily won back.

Everything is people. Unfortunately, there's a pernicious habit at successive layers of HQ to introduce progammes or policies that they are never personally subject to. The result being that unit leaders spend more time completing reports and returns than they do managing and training their...