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joekirlin's avatar

Unfortunately we didn’t listen to Patton in 1945. Once the Russians got their claws into Germany and Eastern Europe the free world would face the future consequences. We cannot forget history

and how we must influence our allies to stay the course and not let Russia and China create future the international environment based on their power politics. Economics is the difference as they now challenge our role in the world .

With an ineffective UN and their attempts

To realign the international chess board.Eastern Europe is a key player and battleground,

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Stephen Hester's avatar

American leadership will remain critical to European security. While Trump and many other Americans rightly feel that Europe should bear more of the cost burden, one consequence seems to be the retraction of American leadership in NATO. While it's clear that we need to get our house in order, Putin will not stop as long as he perceives that America is distracted and disinterested by our internal problems (not to mention China and North Korea).

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Richard H. Serlin's avatar

General McMaster,

With all due respect, obviously you cannot talk about the frontier of freedom without talking about by far its most important front, the historic attack on freedom from the inside of the United States, for the first time in history from a major party and President, with tremendous help from party members in congress and on the Supreme Court.

Honestly, will they have to haul American citizens off to foreign gulags for opposing them before you finally decide to publicly acknowledge the danger? What will it take for you to speak up?

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Michael's avatar

I listened to your discussion with President Petr Pavel. A very impressive individual.

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