Romania To Host Largest NATO Military Base in Europe

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-07 02:03:41 | Updated at 2024-12-23 07:02:49 2 weeks ago

Romania To Host Largest NATO Military Base in Europe
Balkan Insight ^ | 3/21/24 | Madalin Necsutu

Posted on 12/06/2024 5:44:17 PM PST by hardspunned

The military base at Mihail Kogqlniceanu, Constanta, southeast Romania, on the Black Sea coast, will become the largest NATO military base in Europe and will surpass the US military base in Ramstein, Germany, in size.

The new base will give Romania an increased role in NATO’s security architecture and a position of greater strength in the Black Sea, which is militarily dominated by Russia. It will be able to host 10,000 soldiers and civilians by 2030.

NATO and the US will relocate some logistics and human resources from Ramstein to the Mihail Kogalniceanu base.

Expansion works will cost 2.7 billion US dollars and work on access roads and a high-capacity electrical network has already started. Romanian authorities have expropriated 2,400 hectares from the localities of Mihail Kogalniceanu and Lumina, paying 5,500 euros per hectare.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: blacksea; blackseacoast

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DC certainly can’t let 63% of the Romanian electorate gum up the works on this neocon Mecca.

Easy enough for DC to cancel the elections and have the CIA and NGOs install our quisling, as per usual.

1 posted on 12/06/2024 5:44:17 PM PST by hardspunned

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2 posted on 12/06/2024 5:45:25 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)

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3 posted on 12/06/2024 5:48:53 PM PST by freepersup (“Those who conceal crimes are preparing to commit new ones.” ~Vuk Draskovic~)

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But of course, Russia shouldn’t see that as a threat to their national security. /s

4 posted on 12/06/2024 5:51:38 PM PST by FreedomForce

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5 posted on 12/06/2024 5:52:34 PM PST by sopo

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And the best part is this won’t cost the US taxpayer one red cent in extra taxes since the payments will all be kicked back to the DC swamp, so the money will stay right here.

6 posted on 12/06/2024 5:54:11 PM PST by AndyJackson

To: hardspunned

I will say this about the Romanians- they helped the US in Kandahar, Afghanistan, immensely.

ONE, they were not a signatory to the Geneva Convention, so their motto was shoot first and ask questions later, which was the right protocol for being the primary defense force OUTSIDE the US wire, digging WW I style trenches EVERYWHERE between the base perimeter and the outer defensive line manned by the Afghan Forces.

They also built a beautiful all wooden church in the middle of their compound, and to me, THAT was a GIANT middle finger to islam (small i) <> spit <>.

They would go out the gates at night in their Russian hand me down BMP’s HOPING for an encounter with the Taliban.

They also LOVED American sliced white bread for some inexplicable reason. To a man, the Romanians would take a stack of sliced bread the size of half a loaf with them back to their table at every dinner meal.

7 posted on 12/06/2024 6:01:55 PM PST by freepersup (“Those who conceal crimes are preparing to commit new ones.” ~Vuk Draskovic~)

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