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Monika Greenleaf's avatar

One of your most brilliant and well-informed east European posts, Shankar. It makes me hope that European leaders read your column. The numbers you cite for Germany's brigade are too small and slow though, as noted by people below. Poland's military is far more ready, and the alliance with the Baltics more established.

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Romulo Skagen's avatar

All of this because the delusional Trump regime can't (or won't) understand that Putin is our enemy, and needs to be handed a sound defeat in Ukraine. The kind of defeat that leads to regime collapse, just like the USSR's loss in Afghanistan did so long ago. The US and her allies should be bleeding Russia, not trying to make peace with her.

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