Germany deploys permanent troops beyond its borders for the first time since WWII

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Source: NBC News

May 23, 2025, 7:46 AM EDT / Updated May 23, 2025, 7:58 AM EDT


Germany has this week deployed a permanent military brigade beyond its borders for the first time since the end of World War II.

The historic unit dispatched to the capital of Lithuania, Vilnius, was inaugurated Thursday by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who said during a military ceremony in the city that “the security of our Baltic allies is also our security.”

The groundbreaking German military decision is perhaps the most significant in a steady stream of moves by European nations to bolster defenses on NATO’s eastern flank amid persistent security threats from Russia and President Donald Trump's insistence that Europe does more both to defend itself and pay for that defense. It also comes despite persistent efforts by the Trump administration to bring to an end the Kremlin's three-year-long war in Ukraine.

Among Ukraine’s European allies, the three Baltic nations of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia — linked to NATO’s main territory only by a narrow corridor that stretches between Russia and its staunch ally Belarus known as the Suwalki Gap — are perhaps the most vulnerable to an expanded Russian assault. On Thursday, Merz said that “Russia’s aggressive revisionism” since its invasion of Ukraine in 2022 meant it could seek to redraw the broader map of Europe and not just that of Ukraine.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/germany-permanent-troops-ww2-russia-trump-ukraine-putin-military-rcna208700

[Lovie777]

1. shithole's war...............

if another war between, Finland and Russia, Russia will attack the Baltic's as well.

Madman Putin is pissed that he's getting crushed by Ukraine. The man enjoys killing.

shithole is just nuts and don't care about anyone but himself.

[regnaD kciN]

2. We have reached that point in history...

…where having German troops permanently stationed in other nations along the “eastern front” is seen as a good thing.

[surfered]

3. Lithuania and Germany are still in NATO. Not sure of US status

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[kimbutgar]

4. I can't stand the fact that the US is no longer a trusted neighbor and ally

Under the orange hitler administration we are now a pariah nation!

[ShazzieB]

5. Sounds like a wise move on Germany's part.

From the article (emphasis added by me):

The historic unit dispatched to the capital of Lithuania, Vilnius, was inaugurated Thursday by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who said during a military ceremony in the city that “the security of our Baltic allies is also our security.”

I can remember when we had a president (a whole series of them, actually) who understood that the security of our Baltic (and other European) allies is also our security. Now we have an evil Orange Hellbeast who would cheerfully throw them all under the bus to make hs buddy Vlad Happy.

[Mysterian]

6. It's good to see unity and cooperation in Europe

They need to remain united because the USA is no longer a good and reliable partner, thanks to corrupt, traitorous republicans.