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Yes, as a European I think - not to argue the relevancy of this story - sadly "irrelavant" often means "not in the US".
by KingOfCoders 3y ago
Yes, as a European I think - not to argue the relevancy of this story - sadly "irrelavant" often means "not in the US".
- alephnerd 3y agoNot necessarily. China feels much closer than Russia to the US, and military deployments do reflect that as well. While Russia is absolutely a major threat, the mutual feeling of danger that both China and the US have of each other dwarfs any supposed feeling about Russia.
- KingOfCoders 3y agoDo you have numbers? I might think the US still has the biggest deployments in Europe (UK, Spain/Italy, Ramstein/Landstuhl in Germany) and the Middle East vs Guam/Korea/Japan. You might be right with carrier groups https://news.usni.org/2024/02/05/usni-news-fleet-and-marine-tracker-feb-5-2024 https://news.usni.org/2024/02/05/usni-news-fleet-and-marine-...
- alephnerd 3y agoOnly 64k American soldiers are deployed in Europe. 131k are deployed in the Pacific (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_deployments https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_deplo...), but should be 150k once you include the Alaskan deployments which are relatively close to China and Murmansk The bitter truth is any Russian aggression will be fought back by German, Turkish, Polish, Ukrainian, French, etc bodies. We don't have a similar buffer with China beyond the inner ring, as our treaty allies (Japan+SK) will have their hands full with NK. The only time the US was invaded by a foreign army in the 20th century was the Japanese invasion of Alaska along with the invasion of (then) American Phillipines
- KingOfCoders 3y agoThanks! "The bitter truth is any Russian aggression will be fought back by German, Turkish, Polish, Ukrainian, French, etc bodies." As a European, I think this is a good thing, not relying on the US.