NEWSMAX: The United States should consider sending thousands more U.S. troops along with NATO forces to Eastern Europe to match the strength Russian President Vladimir Putin is amassing along the former Soviet bloc nations’ eastern border, Jeb Bush said Wednesday in Berlin.
Capping the two-day German leg of a European trip aimed at bolstering his foreign policy credentials, Bush said Putin is “a bully,” who can only be contained by a show of robust force.
“I’m not talking about being bellicose but saying here are the consequences of your actions,” Bush told reporters before departing his Berlin hotel for a meeting with the German foreign minister. “And that would deter the kind of bad outcome that we don’t want to see.”… (more)
