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US Army Sends 100 Tanks To Eastern Europe To "Deter Russian Aggression"
The ink on Barack Obama's Chuck Hagel termination letter hasn't dried yet but already the US president's new, and seemingly far more hawkish advisors, are having their warmongering presence felt. Case in point: the Eastern European theater of (Cold) war, where Military.com reports that the new Army commander in Europe plans to bolster the U.S. armored presence in Poland and the Baltic states and keep rotations of U.S. troops there through next year and possibly beyond to counter Russia. Lt. Gen. Frederick "Ben" Hodges, who replaced Lt. Gen. Donald M. Campbell earlier this month as commander of U.S. Army Europe, said the Army was looking to add about 100 Abrams tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles to the forces in Eastern Europe.
These U.S. Army M1A2 Abrams tanks are part of the European Activity Set,
a combined-arms battalion-sized set of vehicles and equipment pre-positioned
at Germany’s Grafenwoehr Training Area. Markus Ruachenberger/U.S. Army
"We are looking at courses of action for how we could pre-position equipment that we would definitely want to put inside a facility where it would be better maintained, that rotational units could then come and draw on it and use it to train, or for contingency purposes," Hodges said in a briefing from Vilnius, Lithuania.
So "better maintained... or for contingency purposes." Got it. That probably also explains why as NATO is seeking to deliver 100 tanks to Eastern Europe, it has already added several squadrons of fighter jets just minutes away from Russia's border. For "contingency purposes."
Before:
After:
As before, we wonder how the US would react if Russia were to place a few extra fighter jets in Cuba or a few hundred tanks in Mexico. Aside from historical fact of course.
But back to NATO's tanks whose only mission is "contingency", and certainly not to intimidate Putin that the NATO ring around the nation is closing.
Hodges visited a training site in Lithuania that could be used to store armor and said he would look at similar sites in Estonia and Poland. "Certainly, I don't see a need to build infrastructure -- a FOB [Forward Operating Base] if you will -- or anything like that, that would be used for U.S. forces," Hodges said.
Since taking command, Hodges has made clear his concerns about Russia, which annexed Crimea last March and has supported the separatists in eastern Ukraine. U.S. Army Europe, which had 280,000 troops at the height of the Cold War, now has 31,000.
The rotations of U.S. troops on training missions in Eastern Europe would provide "deterrence against Russian aggression," Hodges said.
"I don't think that Russia has any intention of some sort of a conventional attack into NATO territory because they know that would generate an Article 5 response."
Which is why it is best to provoke Russia first by building up NATO armed forces on Russia borders, something NATO previously express would not happen.
He referred to the NATO treaty article calling on all member states to respond to an attack on any member of the alliance. Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia are all members of the 28-member NATO alliance.
"I think that what they [the Russians] do want to do is to create that ambiguity, plant the seeds of uncertainty so that the alliance members lose confidence that the rest of the alliance would come to their aid if they were, in fact, attacked," Hodges said.
Well, no, that's not what the Russians want. But if NATO keeps piling fighter jets and tanks on its border it will leave Putin no other choice. Which is precisely what the NATO endgoal is here.
In other news, speaking on background, a senior administration official traveling with Vice President Joe Biden on his trip to Ukraine last week said the U.S. has provided more than $100 million in non-lethal assistance "to help the Ukrainians defend themselves."
The aid included night-vision goggles;protective vests; counter-mortar radars; blankets; vehicles; and Meals, Ready to Eat, the official said. The official said the U.S. had concluded that arming Ukraine would be counter-productive since "no matter how many weapons we provided to Ukraine, they were going to get outgunned by the Russians."
Well, actually here the US is lying once again. Recall that "Hacked US Documents Said To Reveal Extent Of Undisclosed US "Lethal Aid" For Ukraine Army", proving once again that the US is just as heavily involved in the Ukraine civil war as is Russia, also implying that the stated NATO reason for intervention is nothing but the red herring NATO wants to brings tensions to a new high, one that preferably breaks out in limited conflict or contained armed combat. Because clearly the global economy has reached its GDP plateau and only war can push it beyond at this point.
As for how Russia feels about this latest NATO expansion, we go to Bloomberg where we read that "Russia is taking countermeasures and will take more, based on analysis of NATO actions near it’s borders, Interfax news service says citing Alexander Grushko, Russia’s envoy to military alliance, in Brussels."
Grushko adds that there is "no reasons for additional deployment of NATO forces near Russian borders, according to IFX", and that NATO measures, strengthening military activity near Russian borders, lead to intensification of military tensions.
Of course they do. And NATO knows it all too well.
And speaking of limited conflict, Germany is already having nightmares about what is sure to be a very, very long recession. As Pravda reported, "the German government prepares for a long conflict with Russia." German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the crisis with Russia could take more than a decade, and Ukraine's aspirations to NATO only "adds fuel to the fire," he said in an interview with ZDF television channel on Sunday, November 30th.
"Sometimes, 14 days are enough to start a conflict, but may take 14 years to solve this conflict," the head of German diplomacy said. When asked whether the conflict with Russia could last for such a long time, Steinmeier responded positively.
For the German minister, the issue of Crimea's future appears to be unsolvable. According to Steinmeier, international recognition of the Crimea as a part of the Russian territory is impossible. "We can not either ignore the illegal annexation of the Crimea, or forget about it and just ignore this fact. The conflict between us will continue," the Foreign Minister of Germany said.
Horrible news if you are Europe, right? Well yes... and no. Horrible if you are a member of the soon to be exinct middle-class, i.e., the 99%. If you are lucky enough to be among Europe's uber-rich, all that the decade long conflict between Europe and Russia will do is provide the ECB with a constant scapegoat to engage in more, more, more easing, be it QE or otherwise, which in turn will crush the middle class like in the US, but make the uber-rich, uber-richer than they have ever been.
Which is ironic: as Europe's wealthiest wage a war of words against the former KGB spy and current head of Russia through their numerous media holdings, it is they that should be most grateful for his existence.
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Nice to see the Tylers spreading their legs like this. Gives me a woody.
I think I hear the thumping of a dogs tail wagging again!
Russia is not your enemy. Central, fractional reserve banking is.
By Bill Van Auken3 December 2014
The NATO foreign ministers meeting held in Brussels Tuesday ratcheted up tensions between the West and Russia, solidifying plans for a 5,000-member “rapid reaction force” that could be quickly deployed to the Russian border.
The annual end-of-the-year meeting was convened amid heated charges exchanged between Moscow on the one side and Washington and the major European powers on the other that military measures taken by the opposed side were dangerously destabilizing Europe.
Under the plans discussed in Brussels, an interim “spearhead” force is to be put in place early next year, with troops initially provided by Germany, Norway and the Netherlands, and with air, sea and other logistical support as well as Special Forces units supplied by the Pentagon. By 2016, a permanent full brigade-strength rapid reaction force is to be in place, with the capability of deploying to Russia’s doorstep within 48 hours to “deter and defend” in any crisis.
“We are protecting our allies and supporting our partners,” the Norwegian secretary general of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, declared.
The new force was only one facet of what is emerging as a concerted campaign of US and NATO military pressure against Moscow. The Western military alliance has also vowed to conduct stepped-up patrols by warplanes over the Baltic Sea and to carry out a continuous rotation of US and Western European troops in and out of Poland and the former Soviet Baltic republics in a series of never-ending “exercises.”
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/12/03/nato-d03.html
New NATO head once hurled stones at the U.S. Embassy at anti-war protesthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqCksAwC2Bs
Yeah... right... a brigade strength cannon fodder that will last about half a day if Russians decide to move their tanks through Europe.
This entire war mongering situation is a fucking farce...
Obama is stupid and uneducated enough to start WW3.
And that might just be the reason he got S-elected to Office, they just could not wish for a more Malleable, Naive, Brainless Retard
Same could be said of the IMF and the Fed. Once the black(s) and women blow up the world, the good ol boys club will be back out front running everything again.
The past 3 presidents were puppets. Bush I and Reagan were part of the crew pulling strings and did not see themselves as puppets. The last president who tried to rock the boat got assassinated.
It was easy to see when Obama learned about his TRUE status. It was right after the 2008 election, still in November, when he got his first real briefing as president-elect. You could see his posture change overnight, and his hair started going gray even before December of that year. It was rather dramatic.
That must have been the day Geithner was announced to head the UST.
Wouldn't you love to be a fly-on-the-wall in that first briefing, just to see the look on his face:
"OK, we just got your sorry ass elected. Now shut the fuck up and do as your told."
http://youtu.be/7MRykTpw1RQ
1 min
Funny stuff. Probably true as hell.
Yes, Massa
What makes you think that wasn't part of the plan all along?
So he didn't get good grades at Harvard Law and Colombia after all, as we have long suspected.
Let me guess
Hodges is getting close to retiring from active duty
within year of retirement will be sitting on (WELL compensated) board of directors of the company(s) making these tanks
re US Army Sends 100 Bradley And Abrams Tanks To Eastern Europe To "Deter Russian Aggression"
Translation:
USSA Will Defend Bankster Crime To the Last European.
If, as they stated, Russia will respond Asymmetrically, then perhaps it's time to have a Rapid Response Force and Naval Base in balmy Venezuela.
That's just to "deter instability and provocation from regional aggressors", who might want to cause V to default early, and thus get their paws on V's yellow and black gold. Such aggressors seem particularly active in countries with gold reserves and energy supplies, and someone has to be a real beat cop, and not the typical "Chicago cop".
Or maybe build a new base in Cuba.
I thought about that, but realized that Cuba has no oil, gas or gold to protect from the Goldman Sacks & Pillage.
Given that Venezuela has a lot of beauty queens (Miss World, Miss Universe), it might be good for the morale of the troops to have them stationed there. Otherwise Venezuelans might soon be electing 'Miss Oil'.
Just a couole things for you guys:
Before Chavez bit the dust, he proposed Russia to set up an airforce base in Venezuela after the Tu-160 White Swan visited the country. In Cuba, Gazprom operates there.
As recent, Shoigu (defence minister of Russia) proposed that Russia set up military bases in new and former allied nations. Nicaragua is recent one as Russia is using troops to protect the building of the new Canal. Dunno about the airforce base in Venezuela, but it is in consideration. As well as a naval base in Vietnam (reuse cam rhan bay) and reopen the intelligence center in Cuba.
Russia has been planning to, but wont till budget is in place after sap2020 (where majority of modernization of Russian military is taking place). After 2020, we may see more than just arctic bases.
Better make up your mind on which side of the New Iron Curtain you wanna be on, fast.
When all else fails the banksters take us to war.
So our ponzi system needs to implode fast, for the survival of the world. Seriously.
USSA has to keep the ponzi going...the only thing that truly backs this fiat are ohio class subs.
Oh!!! ( sad face ) our man-child is growing up!...
A US tanks houses 5 soldiers. 100 tanks muliplied by 5 = 500...
500 Coffins to be ordered straight away. Well done Obozo!
Obama NOBEL PRICE WINNER!
What a sad fucking dickhead...
Coffins aren't needed. When tanks are hit by modern weapons, the fire is intense enough to aluminum. Any humans will be cremated beyond recovery.
He does suck (in more ways than one) so much.
ZATO can stage forward elements into these areas bordering Russia. However, they are at the end of a long logistics trail; Russia has an advantage in armor quantity, possibly quality, and short supply lines.
Is this ZATO deployment window dressing or part of a longer-range plan to force Russia into a hot confrontation with the ZATO forces? If so, this would allow TPTB to sacrifice their ZATO forces and initiate a much wider conflict.
This will probably lead to nuclear confrontation.
These ZATO moves deserve close examination. Defending the puppet Ukraine government is but an excuse to try and tighten the noose around Russia.
TPTB also need to guard their rear from a revolt by US citizens to stall their plans. The tact they are using now, judging by the ZMSM is to promote race war to divide the population, then possibly use the UN Arms Treaty to disarm the population. Chalky will sign the Treaty into law by EO. Congress will not oppose.
If this succeeds, TPTB will have unfettered opportunities to force a confrontation with Russia. With race war and the Second Amendment under attack, the US population will be too diverted to prevent a confrontation with Russia.
If this isn't a case /senerio of exactly what Smedley Butler awoken to, I don't know what is.
+1 for a Smedley Butler reference. War is a racket, indeed.
The US sanctions aren't working despite MSM Jewlander propaganda attempts. The sociopath resides in the White House.
Give that man another peace prize.
I'm pretty sure the BBC is going to use that picture of those tanks as proof of a "Russian invasion". (For the +13th time this year).
I was really hoping not to go to another anti-war rally, but it really looks like all the "conspiracy theories" of the past few years are coming true. The zionist bankers behind the Fed are going to start WWIII and kill us all.
WWIII has been their luciferian dream for decades, wont be much longer now.
Freeshitter
Just Jews taking out the competition. Same old story for nearly 40,000 years now. Neandrathal vs Cro-Magnon.
It's a disgrace to those in uniform how corrupt Obama and his gang have become. To provoke war to save the banking and military industrial complex.
The sociopaths are willing to kill millions to satisfy their greed. Like someone said before it's like Russia putting tanks in Mexico.
Our forefathers did not intend us to be like this.
The people who are not in favor of Obama's seedy regime are not the rabid thugs taht they are. I hope we (not Obama's fangroup) have enough brains to pull it off.
I'm not waiting around for Anonymous to make Mickey Mouse moves here.
Me thinks putin's days are numbered........
Gots too many enemy's...............
Putin is incredibly popular in Russia. To remove him means to Balkanize Russia which means war. That means we all will be "removed" before he is. The creeping aggression and buildup to war seems to be from the west and people, outside of your little bubble, are waking up to that. This is the grand chess game to rule the 21st century. We could have cooperation between west and east as we did just two short years ago, but the true rulers want it all, regardless of lives lost. I'm not a "Putin Fan!" I'm just a guy with children who sees this slow move to war. Let's hope at the least it remains cold, but collateral damage is becoming increasingly less of a worry to those that may desire to sacrifice you and I.
I look forward to the down votes by the troll army here.
The sad part is millions will die for what is just a stupid game of gotcha.
Either Russia takes the west seriously or they will become a failed state.
Russian aggression my ass. This devil and his minions in the White House are about to destroy the planet. Is there anyone left in Washington with half a brain, or even in Europe? Are the Europeans that brainwashed as well as they would even let these armaments in? I can't believe this is happening.
I'm assuming your questions are rhetorical.
Would this be considered Eurasia? With whom we've always been at war?
...and a good spot to have in the fake game of Risk!
sociopathy
Etymology: L, socius, companion; Gk, pathos, disease a personality disorder characterized by a lack of social responsibility and failure to adapt to ethical and social standards of the community. Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 8th edition. © 2009, ElsevierInteresting and educational. But I was told that...
A Psychopath is someone who kills several to dozens of people directly and the victims fit a 'Trigger' profile (e.g. Hannibal Lecter), whereas a Sociopath is less discerning and will outsource: They kill thousands or millions of people, and have others do it for them (e.g. Caligula, Nero, Rothschild, Rockefeller). Am I mistaken?
No. Two sets of medical sicknesses. Obama is community organizer, he doesn't call the shots.
Good luck trying to convince the American people that a war with Russia is needed after starting two worthless and unwinnable wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
You dont need to convince them, just scare the shit out of them with ebola and they will cave in like usual. Americans are beyond stupid as fuck.
And the whole Ukraine thing has been completely censored in western media. For those that still even pay attention that is.
Not to mention the two Malaysian planes. One still missing, the other still unexplained, even though the black boxes have long since been recovered and examined by........................wait for it...........................the Dutch, who somehow just managed to get 120 tons of their gold back, while the Germans are still waiting for theirs. HMMMMM!!!!!
The only people "scared" of ebola where the alternative media doomers. The average joe would just crack jokes about it.
"Americans are beyond stupid as fuck."
I have 3 decades of experience in dealing with Americans, and I can confirm this.
Listening to all that BS you sometimes wish that Russia would just lash out and destroy NATO or make them turn around and leave Eastern Europe with their tail between their legs.
If it just wouldn't cost so many human lives.
Hmmm... These things arent thought of and implemented in a few days. These things were planned long ago. Maybe Putin knew of this and he is responding to what was planned months ago and the US acts the victim...
Excellent - more targets. One tactical nuke should take care of that lot.
These commanders aren’t making these decisions. It’s a political decision from the banker empire to use a military buildup, hoping the world will surmise that the buildup is because Russia is threatening and is a menace to the world. They’re hoping for leverage to increase sanctions and for the Europeans to clamp down on Russia and push Europe eastward, giving more strength to Ukraine.
...so that Europeans will scream, “Oh my gosh, a war is coming. We need to do something about Russia.”
We’ll have a war if Russia attacks; and that’s not likely. And, then, the US/NATO won’t get by with 100 tanks; it will need 1000s.
One of the worst warmongers is John Mauldin who quoted Vitaliy Katsenelson in "Putin’s World: Why Russia’s Showdown with the West Will Worsen" recently on Market Oracle:
“Comparing Putin with Hitler, as one of my Russian friends put it, is "absolutely abominable" because it diminishes Hitler's atrocities and overstates by a mile what Putin has accomplished to date. Yet it feels as if we are at a Putin-of-1936 moment. Will he turn into a Putin of 1939 and invade other countries? I don't know. But the events of the past nine months have shown Putin's willingness to defy international law and seize the advantage on the ground, betting – correctly so far – that the West won't call his bluff.”
Vitaliy Katsenelson and his family came to the United States in 1991 after the fall of the USSR. Katsenelson is now Chief Investment Officer at Investment Management Associates in Denver, Colo. According to Wikipedia: “Vatsenelson is Jewish.[1] He immigrated to the United States from Murmansk, Russia in 1991.[2] From 2001 to 2007 Katsenelson taught investment classes at the University of Colorado at Denver Graduate School of Business.” –
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaliy_Katsenelson
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article48286.html
This anti-Putin anti-Russian warmongering seems to be a Jewish initiative. They're all over it. What's going on? Seriously. Whatever the reason the goys will get the butt end of the outcome.
>>>This anti-Putin anti-Russian warmongering seems to be a Jewish initiative. They're all over it. What's going on? Seriously.
IMHO most Jews are "normal people", but Jewish movers-and-shakers have at times actually expressed publicly what I think explains both the current anti-Putin, and prior anti-WASP, position of Jewish opinion-makers: Jews are safer when they are just one of many components in a very mixed society, rather than as a prominant (and very successful) minority group in an otherwise homogenous society.
The ideal nation, therefore, should not have a strong ethnic identity unless, of course, that nation is Israel. Anything that weakens the solidarity within historic ethno-states is therefore (drumroll please).... "Good for the Jews".
IMHO, Russia is a resource-rich prize whch has not yet been brought fully into the big tent of International/Cosmopolitan Finance. Russia is still too "Russian", and should be subject to the same powers that rule in London and New York....
This is what Gen Smedley Butler USMC had to say about his military service at the beginning of the last century:
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902–1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
Where excluded from TARP funds to hide past involvement. The new PNC bank shell company shredded evidence. I know, was a former National City Bank individual holding accounts. Banking managers always spew the truth. The Media spins it.
Obama is nothing more than a Central Planner shoe shine boy.
Russians ain't gonna listen to any black man.....
The people running things are certifiably insane.
No, they know Putin doesnt have the balls to launch so they will just take what they want, like any school yard bully. Words will not work you would have to fight to the death or break something they need and love.
Putin just doesnt have the fight in him, so everything he does is in vain. He lost before the fight even started.
Ply Russian roulette with your life, not mine.
>>>they know Putin doesnt have the balls to launch
That is an extraordinarily dangerous assumption.
I'm not privy to the inner circles of the West or Russia, but I strongly suspect that what is viewed by Washington as a form of blood-sport, or mere political maneuver, on European turf is viewed by the Russians, government and people, as an existential threat to their future.
A bad miscalculation in America's warmongering could indeed cause the Russians to launch, and it's certainly not a matter of who does or doesn't have "balls" enough to bluff an opposing gamer.
We've been unable to deter some folks.
What's that? 18 jets. And maybe our original 4? Putin must be shaking.
During which period the Russians bought into service two boomers.
Very quiet boomers.
Don't the Russians have an RPG that defeats the Abrams armor? I recall seeing something about that about 7-years ago or so.
You mean Kornet..........they have Iskander too
Not to mention neutron bombs. Not too much damage to the armor, the occupants, well.....
Operation Barbarossa 1941 was the last time Westerners had equipment placed on this border and Russia knows what that meant. China does to
Banana Republic playbook. Got to have a big, bad foreign enemy to distract the citizenry from the government's failings.
European weather just turned in this last week. Time to play the gas card!
Gas Off! No tanks needed!
"Petrol is blood"
Colonel (Oberst) Hessler
1965
While were at it, lets go ahead and invade Canada & Brazil. Easy targets and they won't be expecting this.
Are those tanks able to survive a thermonuclear blast?
Of course! These are the new and improved nuke proof tanks. Shrug off nuclear blasts like a mild breeze.
I bet its loud though.
What if taxpayers don't want to waste money on this boondoggle? What's in it for taxpayers?
Why, more debt of course!
Submitted for your approval:
To: 'Marc-to-Market' whose weekly posts here always include cute sarcastic jabs at 'conspiracy' types in his introductions. Towards the subject at hand however, I give you this. From March of this year (2014)
http://www.financialsense.com/financial-sense-newshour/marc-chandler/ukr...
There have been other subsequent pieces from this guy, with the same high-minded $DX omnipotent-centric viewpoints, vis-a-vis Russia and China geopolitics. In any event, bon-appetit, Marc-to-Market. Open wide buddy, there's gonna be aplenty of greenbacks to chow down on as U.S. foreign policy advances, unhinged from common sense.
American tanks and planes should be stationed right around Chernoble and the Slovak Gas lines leading back to Ukraine.
Nothing says safety as much as parked tanks and planes...
Looks like Germany is committed to lose and have their country destroyed completely for the third time. Keep siding with the sociopaths in the west, Ms. Merkel, and you can take all the credit.
they've been denied twice in their attempts join the list of european empires, this time maybe they'll get it right. heil merkel!
Merkel hasn't a clue after all look who she put in as Defence Minister !!!!!!!! ROFL
I believe that Merkel is hopelessly compromised. They have the goods on her, probably from her time in the old GDR.
Surprised zero hedge does not cover the CSIS kissenger groupie speeches on tube land.
The polish smart ass made a important speech 2 weeks ago and tells you all you need to know.
Pass on the link, don't be shy in sharing your findings.
"Pass on the link, don't be shy in sharing your findings."
I guess this is the one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0XOVj-t2II
A piece of "deep insight and foresight" (/s) of one of the Polish speakers at that CSIS conference, Dr. Adam Daniel Rotfeld:
Now, Afghanis, Iraqis, Libyans, Pakistanis, Somalis, Syrians and Yemenis certainly know whom to blame for their predicament...
How much longer will the American people accept this double speak as occupied Washington continues its cultural slaughter around the globe in its quest for universal “peace” to merge the US – and all nations -- into world government on the principle of collectivism.
As for Dr. Adam Daniel Rotfeld, another "Jew who survived the Holocaust."
Actually the correct spelling is Holocau$t(c).
Furthermore there's only one Holocau$t. You know, the one where most of the victims seem to have survived.
Obama will need to appoint a new Terrorism Czar. Override senate approval as he’s done 35 times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._executive_branch_czars#By_administration
Can't the top man call himself this?
If I can keep score well enough, this contingent would bring the total amount of US Tanks and Armoured Fighting vehicles in Eastern Europe to over 200. (Last week, it was reported that the US "had" 50 tanks in Poland.)
In isolation, such a battle group is a very potent fighting force, which -if deftly deployed and skillfully operated- could hold up a far superior enemy force...for about 48 hours. Unfortunately, there is no indication that any reinforcements of significant number and combat potential could arrive for weeks afterward.
So this is more about symbolism and "tripwires" than about effective defensive capability. It is not realistic to think that Russia will attack either the Baltics or Poland. If a ground war involving frontline units of the Russian army occurs, it will be in Ukraine. And, If or when the Russians act, they will employ the maximum degree of surprise to their advantage. Expect no warnings, no buildups, just action.
This is as raunchy as say, Al Qaeda financing Mexico's aggression in the U.S. because Mexico is in debt to the U.S. (ref: drop in oil prices during the 80's put Mexico in a bind)
Of course the US led by drug infested entitled caucasian baby boomers who can't quit their stupid drugs to save their own lives would be more guilty of treasonous acts against the U.S. than Al Qaeda would in that matter.
The War against Putin is already on...its an economic war. The MIC is simply preparing to fight yesterdays war (which Hitler lost and Napolean before him) with obscolescent cannon fodder.
A few planes on Russia's border? LOL On my Crimean deep dive, I cant help but conclude that the Crimea seems Russian, as does nearly the whole Ukr east. Why does The bankrupt West pretend that Russia's move was illegal? Do not the Crimean's have the natural right to Freedon of Association?
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Only if they vote for accession to Kosovo.
Squeeze play is on. Who will win ? West which requires expansion to achieve Global growth justifying debt fiat financing or East that embraces National cultural values, self reliance and xenopphobic outlook to achieve survival. Both camps are fully armed supported by Military, Big Biz and Oligarchs. However,in final analysis, people will decide which Emperor has clothes.
The west will win. Otherwise Putin would have broken something by now like the market. Its just a show, Putin is likely on board for a Russia break-up. Just needs to keep his head and money after, thats all.
"100 Tanks"
Just enough to "deter" the bear, but not enough to provoke it, right? I'm so grateful for our wise leadership. In the end, they will get what they deserve, but in the mean time most of the rest of us are screwed.
READ: "...new army commander..." Translation: Obama fired the previous highly trained and experienced one who would have advised against this move and replaced him with one that has "the appropriate qualifications", or some total bullsh_t like that. Just a guess...
"appropriate qualifications" - TRANSLATION: We have pictures of you in high heels, wearing a feather boa, and doing the cock tuck. You really should close your curtains tighter, freak.
Hell. We don't need no stinkin' tanks to deter Putin. All the CIA needs to do is release the incontrovertible evidence that Putin is gay, and hundreds of thousands of gay Russkies will stream towards Putin at ludicrous light-warp speed, overwhelm Putin's bodyguards, and ...
... give him a makeover, mani-pedi and Bosley? Don't leave me in suspense!
Don't worry I am sure Germany under Merkle willing to sacrifice millions of Germans for the third time in a century.
There will be no winners from the next WW... the USA will be destroyed as much as everyone else....question is will Israel detonate a Nuke over Moscow or DC?
Maybe both
Sum of all fears..in movie the enemy got both the russians and us to start shooting at each other
Tanks are old hat under Rumsfeld's New Model Army. (Fans of history will know the origin of that phrase, but it's very apt now.)
100 metal expendables plus crew to rot and rust on the fringe of Russia.
What bowels of hell do we get our so called "leaders" from? They do realize that they are not messing with Syria, Libya, Iraq, or any other 3rd world banana republic. These are the Russians, who have historically defended their homeland like a pack of crazed wolverines. What exactly are the U.S. and NATO trying to accomplish here? Where exactly is the threat? Make no mistake about it; the Russians will not turn tail like the Iraqi army, they will fight to the finish. Furthermore, what do they think China's reaction is going to be to Western military aggression in their neck of the woods? And lastly, this is a highly weaponized nuclear power. How soon after the firing starts do the nukes begin flying? Remember Einstein: WW III=nukes, WWW IV=sticks. This truly is madness.
Sorry Charlie, Insanity needs no logic or explanation...
"What exactly are the U.S. and NATO trying to accomplish here?"
These people have no new ideas. This is just a replay of the old Cold War strategy. i.e. force the USSR to allocate an excessive proportion of their economy to defense, and wait for domestic discontent to cause a collapse (empty shelf syndrome).
For a variety of reasons it's unlikely to succeed, and may even hasten the collapse of NATO, but that won't stop them from trying. This is what you get when you replace strategic thinkers with political hacks.
Putin: "Yeah, keep pushing jackasses."
new tanks new money, i love the smell of deficit spending in the morning, its smell like a reelection victory
President Cruz strong like bull.
"US Army Sends 100 Tanks To Eastern Europe To "Deter Russian Aggression" "
OMG: Russia's gonna invade the Ukraine ....AGAIN. Putin must be stopped(!)
Where's our Latvian troll when you need him :-(
/s
I believe he now has the job of special advisor to the administration, aka the local subsidiary of the Carlyle Group.
Viedoklis are very sadness. He have find big worm in potato
>>>Where's our Latvian troll when you need him?
I think our HE is actually a SHE ! lol
I hope one day the shit comes back to the United fascist states of America.
I hope one day the killing and murders that USA keeps on exporting to the world
will come back home so the fat ass morons in USA wake the fuck up.
Nothing is gonna wake the fat ass morons in USA better than mass killings
and civil war.
America was captured a long time ago. The people who destroyed Russia weren't Russians. The people who destroyed Germany weren't Germans. The people destroying America aren't Americans. "Where 2 fight a 3rd wins". Americans are not the ZOG. Americans are not any dumber than you. You should work harder to grasp the truth and save your own butt.
100 green ones if I could.
It is great being an American patriot where you guys can all get involved with another war and not have to pay for it as the fed will print more coin and the arms industry will make gazillions.
Let's face it, what is a few people lost or injured? Or homes destroyed? People who have never threatened America.
Just do me a favor guys, don't get Canada involved with any of this. I want to bring my American kids up here so we can live in peace, it appears the Nobel Peace prize winner is more like the Anti Christ.
How many, show of hands, would volunteer to go ground fight in the next war...? WTF!?! 5,000 warmongers in this auditorium and not a SINGLE Voluntteer- ?! ROFL! ha ha-THOUGHT SO!
How much do those tanks weigh? Germany has found difficulty with certain metals logistical deliveries. Waz Up?
Whoo Hooo! It's WAR!
Let us figure this out. 100 tanks, 1/2 mile per gallon. Russia, 5592 miles wide. So, 10000 gallons of fuel per tank. Russia has 15,500 tanks, so you need 30,000 rounds of armor piercing ammo (in case you miss once in a while). 300 rounds per tank.
40 miles an hour, makes it 150 hours to scoot and shoot your way across Russia.
This is too easy.
No army has ever taken Russia from the East or West. They sacrificed 25 million on WWII. That's a third of their entire population. They will fight to the death. Those in the west will barely open the door for another person in a restaurant. This is insanity to push to war and anyone who thinks that they are weak or under prepared are wrong.
Genghis Khan
Sorry, I only looked 750 years back. The Russians are now the descendants of the Mongols so thanks for bolstering my point on their military might and passion for kicking ass.
"Mongol destruction of Kievan Rus', the Tsardom of Russia and subsequently the Russian Empire would not have risen....Historians also credit the Mongol regime with an important role in the development of Muscovy as a state. Under Mongol occupation, for example, Muscovy developed its mestnichestvo hierarchy, postal road network (based on Mongolian ortoo system, known in Russian as "yam", hence the terms yamshchik, Yamskoy Prikaz, etc.), census, fiscal system, and military organization."
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Field Marshall Sir Bernard Montgomery: "There are only two rules of warfare: 1) never invade Russia, 2) never invade China."
Field Marshall Sir Bernard Montgomery: "There are only two rules of warfare: 1) never invade Russia, 2) never invade China."
Putin's answer to this insanity : "I BUY MORE GOLD! HA!"
By now even the most retardo Russophobe at zh has heard the story of the USS Donald Cook in the Black Sea on April 12, 2014, 8 months ago.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article185860.html
To the best of my knowledge, this story has not been denied by the Pentagon, who fear that the Russians may then offer to prove it to any other NATO navy and a watching world. Neither NATO nor the Pentagon are shy about making false claims.
The Russians have declared that their jet passed over the USS Cook and disabled all the electronics aboard the ship causing it to limp pathetically into a Turkish (or Romanian) port for repairs. The Navy's cover story was that the Cook damaged its propeller on some rocks, etc.
IF THE RUSSIAN CLAIM IS TRUE, AND MOSCOW CAN INTERFERE WITH THE INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS OF A GAZILLION DOLLAR AEGIS DESTROYER, WOULDN'T KNOCKING OUT THE COMPUTERS ON SOME BRADLEY OR ABRAMS TANKS BE QUITE A BIT EASIER?
the US has ECM, and probably better ECM than anyone. the fact a Russian plane may have disrupted the system on a US ship is neither here nor there, although it is likely a provocation, just as locking onto US warplanes with radar directed missiles is considered a provocation (such a policy was sufficent to drive the NOFLY zone protocol over Iraq) it remains a fuzzy point of logic, locking on is not the same as firing a missile.
US policy is to fire on any site than locks its radar system on a US warplane (if the site belongs to Iraq, or Syria), but if Iran did the same thing there might be a different protocol. if you want to start a war this is where you go. why Bush or Obama didnt apply the same NOFLYZONE rules to the straight of Hormuz and the Iranian side of that water body i am not sure. it would be justified by US past behavior. they could push back the Iranian systems very easily, shrink the influence of Tehran, and not raise too much noise at the UN, freedom of the seas and so on. doing such things without an endgame in mind is dangerous and it always implies the countdown to boots on the ground is on. should it happen in Ukraine the same countdown begins. (E Ukraine locks onto US warplanes, US warplanes take out the site. the Malaysia airliner shootdown is probably this centurys Gulf of Tonkin, (arent you glad LBJ created the civil rights act, its come full circle Democrats, now the poor oppressed minority can become elected president and get a lot of people killed in a foolish war, now thats progress)
US pilots have never been tested....US cities have never been irradiated.......US infrastructure has never been degraded
The Russian Khibiny has actually been tested on the American navy.
ECM may or may not work. It has certainly not been used on the Russian military and proved worthy.
Respectfully, you are going to have to prove that. And this too.
If you have any links please provide them
Russia and China have weapons we could only dream of
It's easier to sneak in Agents Provacateur this way. What the hell do we have to do to get someone to attack us, for Pete's sake!
move the fleet to Pearl Harbor?