In doing so Lavrov resembled Afghan President Hamid Karzai periodically complaining of the U.S. and NATO killing his nation's civilians and the Pakistani government publicly bemoaning deadly American drone strikes in its tribal areas. What he urged was correct and important, but he knew that nothing would come of it.
The Pentagon has ensconced itself permanently at bases in Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Kosovo and the hosts' troops except for the last-named, a U.S.-spawned stillborn pseudo-state still not a member of the United Nations 32 months after its unilateral declaration of independence have been dispatched to fight and die in Afghanistan.
In 21st century Europe armed forces exist not for territorial defense but for NATO and European Union deployments overseas. Military bases, facilities and installations are for billeting foreign troops and housing other nations' aircraft and military equipment, those of the U.S. in particular.
U.S. F-15 Eagle fighter jets are currently patrolling the airspace over the Baltic Sea in Russia's neighborhood and are stationed at the Siauliai Air Base in Lithuania until the end of the year.
F-15C fighter jet
The first long-term deployment of American anti-ballistic missiles a Patriot Advanced Capability-3 battery with approximately 100 troops manning it occurred this year in northeastern Poland near its border with Russia.
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