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How would you call it there were almost half a million fully armed German troops stationed in the US?

A great success for US board of tourism?

"fully armed"

Right there you start going astray, a lot of them are doing logistics of one type or another, including our largest overseas military hospital, the top level hospital for serious GWoT theater injuries.

More directly, it would all depend on why they were there.

They are nevertheless armed among other things with nuclear weapons.

Those aren't the nukes that Germany would have to worry about.

The U.S. attacking Germany is even more paranoid than chem-trail mind control agents, I'm just throwing that in to go along with the hypothetical.

It doesn't take an attack for there to be problems. Accidents, leaks, contamination, poor behaviour and violence by troops etc is somewhat more likely. That and the external appearance of supporting what ever the stationed troops are up to (often related to regional/nearby wars etc).

I think you mean half a hundred thousand. It really depends, are they going to movies and buying local beer or are they shooting at people? What is currently happening in Germany is the first not the second.

"How would you call it there were almost half a million fully armed German troops stationed in the US?"

That would depend on whether they were there with U.S. government permission, wouldn't it?

Absolutely, as a US citizen I have no problem at all if Germans want to have a military cultural exchange program to bring some locality jobs ;)

It is not like we are in Germany to sack the villages and take slaves, or dictate policy

Oktoberfest in the South?

Hessians?

As it turns out I'm reading Washington's Crossing (http://www.amazon.com/Washingtons-Crossing-Pivotal-Moments-A...) and at the point where I'm at the Hessians are not enjoying the attacks they're receiving from the locals of occupied New Jersey (plus some raids from across the Delaware). Seems their thorough plundering wasn't well received....

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