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2023-12-20 Europe

Denmark reaches defense agreement with US, allowing military access to Danish soil

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-12-20 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

#1 When my Dad was in the Air National Guard his unit spent one two week summer camp in Denmark.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-12-20 12:08|| 2023-12-20 12:08|| Front Page Top

#2 The Russian Armed Forces are now the most trained and combat-ready army in the world.

It's just so curious what we see here at Rantburg.
-The US cannot staff it's military recruitment needs, or elect strong leadership.
-The US left BILLION$ of equipment in the AFG exit.
-NATO has effectively been disarmed by donating materiel to Ukraine, weakening their respective defensive posture.
-Ukraine consumption of contributed standoff weaponry has drained the ordinance stores of the West.
-In outsourcing and consolidating manufacturing, the US capacity to 'reup' inventories is challenged. In many cases the tooling and technology to rebuild machining capacity has been lost.
-The US has become dependent on China to expand the critical Panama Canal supply chain/wartime provisioning logistics link. Strangely enough this effort has been impeded by a drought, between oceans.
-The US borders are porous to crime, recreational drugs and dependent 'refugees'.

-Russia has thrown retired and obsolete armor and recalled soldiers at the Ukraine front.
-Russian and satellite state prisons are resources for backfilling combat losses, in contract roles.
-Russian uber-elites, and their money, have left the country for Europe.
-Multi-year contracts for Russian weaponry are completing early. Russia is aiding and arming central Africa.

-African terrorist/bandit forces are in 'training' with inter-national and regional conflicts.
-Iranian surrogates are seizing control of logistic waterways from the Horn-of-Africa to the Med.

European holdouts apparently smell the blood on the water and are reluctantly joining common defense programs.

America is 'at war'. They just haven't told us yet.
Maybe 'they' don't know.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-12-20 22:29|| 2023-12-20 22:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Announcing a victory in WOT might have been premature.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-20 22:36|| 2023-12-20 22:36|| Front Page Top

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