New NATO Chief stirs the pot. This will NOT go over well...

Members of Poland's special commando unit Lubliniec disembark from a Mi-17 helicopter during the "Noble Sword-14" NATO international tactical exercise at the land forces training centre in Oleszno, near Drawsko Pomorskie, northwest Poland September 9, 2014 (Reuters / Kacper Pempel)

UPDATE:  Want to read something that is thought provoking about the war in Ukraine?  Check out Cdr Salamander's take on things.  Winter is coming and this is when the war will be won.


via Russia Times.

"Next year, at the ministerial meeting, we will take decisions regarding the so-called spearhead but, even before it is established, NATO has a strong army after all,” Stoltenberg told state-owned Polish broadcaster TVP Info.

"These capabilities already exist. We have them, and we can deploy them in individual regions. And this is only an add-on to what the alliance already has."

In September, his predecessor Anders Fogh Rasmussen outlined the specifics of the rapid reaction force as comprising “several thousand troops, ready to respond where needed with air, sea and special-forces support.”

Amid talk of a “spearhead” NATO force, the United States last month transferred 20 M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks and about 700 soldiers, along with Bradley and Stryker armored vehicles, to the Baltic States, marking the first time the US has shipped armored vehicles to Europe since the end of the Cold War, Reuters noted.

Such a military force was intended to substitute for permanent NATO bases in Eastern Europe, which the Western military organization pledged not to create following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Read the ENTIRE article here.

First thing you learn when you head into the woods is not to fuck with bears.  You kill them, you avoid them, but you damn sure don't fuck with them.

But what has me laughing is the claim that NATO has a strong army!  Really?  Seriously?

But ignoring all the silliness.  How do you think Russia will respond to these moves?

The smallest US Army and Marine Corps in 50 years is just around the corner. We (supposedly) have interests in Africa, the Middle East and the Pacific....and yet we still need to be ready to defend Europe?

I think our European allies are misreading things a bit...THEY CAN'T SIMPLY CALL ON THE US TO PROTECT THEM!  A coordinated strike by China and Russia at both ends of the globe would have the United States making a choice.  Who do we prioritize?  Europe or the Pacific?  If the answer isn't Europe then they have some serious cash to spend...and work to do.