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... – of U.S. military facilities and personnel from Europe, the very simple aim of which being to save money on their upkeep. Perhaps this is how we should look at the plans to move a part of the United States’ heavy weaponry to Poland and the Baltic states, which have become more convenient places for U.S. troops to store their military equipment, from both the political and economic points of view. This is because the cost of stationing U.S. troops in Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic countries, even on a temporary basis, for the purposes of carrying out manoeuvres and training local military personnel is hardly comparable to the sums that the Pentagon earmarks every year for U.S. soldiers ...

18.06.2015

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