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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Dow View Post
    What? Like the "gross affront" of the US military bases in UK, Germany, (...
    Actually, the embassy fortress in Berlin was an affront to the German people and got bad press for years.

    It fell much short of a battalion battlegroup fort right next to our capital, it is an embassy of an ally and it was/is still quite an insult.


    Btw, you seem to have lost all sense for the cost/benefit ratio. Three companies of guards for an embassy is insane.

    Besides, laying AP and AT mines in a foreign country is insane as well, and will be outright illegal in all those countries which ratified the ban on AP mines.
    Last edited by Fuchs; 09-24-2012 at 06:39 PM.

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