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NATO Launches "Wide-Scale" War Games Near Russian Border, Creates "Line Of Troops"
Washington looks to be throwing more than the full faith and credit of the US government behind Ukraine. On the heels of news that the US is set to guarantee a Ukrainian international bond issue (while Greek pensioners implicitly subsidize the country’s natural gas exports), NATO is in the midst of conducting large scale military maneuvers along the Russian border in a move Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says encourages “Kiev to pursue a military solution.” Over the course of 10 days, NATO will parade 120 combat vehicles across the region in an effort to prove how quickly the West can confront perceived Russian aggression. Here’s more from Military News:
The [Russian] ministry warned that it hopes Europe "does see the risk of unconditionally following advice from U.S. generals and will not opt for approaches that will rule out the risk of a slide towards a military confrontation between Russia and NATO."
While the U.S. Army acknowledges the convoy's movement is "a highly visible demonstration of U.S. commitment to its NATO allies," Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, the commander of U.S. Army Europe, insists "the focus should be on what is the desired end state, and can we get there using diplomatic and economic pressure and support."
So basically, the US is saying the following: “...although we’re intent on showing just how quickly we can deploy our forces in the event an armed confrontation becomes necessary, we hope you’ll see this for what it is which is our best effort demonstrate that we long for a peaceful solution.” We’ll let you judge for yourself how committed the West is to a peaceful resolution (note the US soldier teaching the small child how to fire a high caliber weapon):
And the US is particularly proud of the fact that it has created a wall of troops along the Russian border:
Meanwhile, US officials don’t understand why anyone would see this as hypocritical. As RT reports, the US State Department’s press official Jeff Rathe “would disagree” with the notion that the US is conductig precisely the types of exercises for which it has previsously condemned Russia:
When asked why the US was condemning Russian exercises inside Russia, State Department press official Jeff Rathke told RT no such statement had ever been made.
While the US has not criticized every military drill conducted by the Kremlin, last August State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Russia’s aviation exercises are “provocative and only serve to escalate tensions.”
“Wouldn’t US and NATO maneuvers on Russian borders, at a time when the West and Russia are at odds over the crisis in Ukraine, also “raise tensions?” asked AP diplomatic correspondent Matt Lee.
“We would disagree with that,” replied Rathke.
Indeed.
In the meantime, Moscow isn’t particularly pleased with Denmark’s eight month old move to join NATO’s missile defense shield, as Russia’s Ambassador to Denmark Mikhail Vanin subtly warned that joining the effort would subject Danish ships to strikes by Russian nuclear missiles and besides, the effort would ultimately be in vain as Moscow has nukes capable of infiltrating the West’s defenses. Here’s more from The Telegraph:
“I don’t think that Danes fully understand the consequence if Denmark joins the American-led missile defence shield. If they do, then Danish warships will be targets for Russian nuclear missiles,” said Mikhail Vanin, the Russian ambassador to Denmark, to the Jyllands-Posten newspaper.
“Denmark would be part of the threat against Russia. It would be less peaceful and relations with Russia will suffer. It is, of course, your own decision - I just want to remind you that your finances and security will suffer. At the same time Russia has missiles that certainly can penetrate the future global missile defence system,” Mr Vanin said.
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It would certainly appear from the above that geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe are now running at a fever pitch and with Washington prone to adopting an extra defensive position thanks to what appear to be shifting economic alliances among its staunchest allies, we wouldn’t expect the posturing to die down on either side in the foreseeable future.
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calm down, clown, its not much stronger than from perestroika age
I guess the NSA snuffed out those.military Guys that held the signs over their faces that read: " I did not join the US military to fight in a Syrian civil war".
What happened to them? Those guys spoke the loudest when our gov tried to get us in another useless adventure.
This is INSANITY.
Obama's foreign policy is INSANE.
Obama is INSANE.
I hope that the US Joint Chiefs of Staff realizes that a conventional or nuclear war with Russia is NOT in the interests of US National Security.
The Russian people, Russia and President Vladimir Putin were not, and should not now, be enemies of the American people or America.
An alliance with Russia to counter Islamic Extremism is in the interests of US National Security.
Put the Chicken-hawks, regardless of age, into uniform, send them through basic training, basic and pre-deployment infantry training, then to a front-line combat zone. Let them see what war is like—up close and personal—since their only solution for any problem is WAR!
I'm a former Marine and I volunteer to serve with them, too.
Why?
To see them receiving a real-world education would be priceless.
Oh, been there and done it, we lit the place (Graf) up in the lead up to the 1st Gulf War.
1st Gulf War Combat Troop - stationed in Bamberg in the late 80's/early 90's
Why some lamers blame Obama? He is a good president, very good president. He never talks attacking with nukes, like Putin talks. I like USA and Obama.
Too funny... watch much Oprah?
best comment ever....I like Finnman and Finland
Without USA whole Europe would be mess.
Practice your idiocy in private.
Seriously, this exercise is the dying American empire grasping at straws. And most of this is show. Why is this show, you might ask? Because in the United States, there are only two places that test the more complex electronic components (processors/fpga's,cplds), of the variety that aging weapons systems need to operate. Neither of these facilites are what you would call state of the art. A lot of aging equipment in constant need of repair. And one of them was just bought out and are having problems with staffing retention and their quality record isn't that great.
The US military is more concerned with sticking counterfeit components in their equipment than ramping up for an all-out war. Otherwise the orders would be ramping up drastically. (You need spare parts to keep the war machine going.)
Basically, this is the place to be next week if you want to see if the US is preparing for war.
https://www.gomactech.net/2015/agenda.html
https://www.gomactech.net/2015/exhibitors.html
Me thinks finnman has many other names, look at his idiotic statements and his term of office here. Four plus years. Perhaps one of the Tylers spicing up the conversation.
Some time ago, accounts with weak passwords were hacked by the Ukies, and then used to post their BS.
Practice your cencorship back in russia. Hump...
Your ignorance is astounding, Europe is in a mess because of the USA, not despite it
Being mindful that the US of A did quite well financially out of WW1 AND WW2 (especially seeing as effective competition from the UK and Europe was really obliterated as a result of infrastructure / manufacturing destruction), one cannot but wonder whether the Powers that Be have the idea of "see if we can do this again", and see if we can generate another windfall for our ailing industries with the promise of "Reconstruction" activities (paid for by others).
"Third time Lucky"??
/s
fixed it for you dickbump
Not the Denmarks war ships, but Denmarks peaceful cities will be roasted in nuclear fire. He is halt a diplomat, he said war ships.
Nuke Tel Aviv now to stop all these bullshit.
New York and London would be my choice (even though I live there) as that's where the banking mafia are and without them none of this would be happening imo.
“I don’t think that Danes fully understand the consequence if Denmark joins the American-led missile defence shield. If they do, then Danish warships will be targets for Russian nuclear missiles,” said Mikhail Vanin, the Russian ambassador to Denmark, to the Jyllands-Posten newspaper.
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If you are unlucky neighbour of Russia, and want to take care about country security - you are in big trouble. Russia is nuclear terrorist, nothing less. They often threaten to use military, to force their political interests.
You stupid Poles do not get anything right. Ever! Why would you this time?
Why dont you Poles get some balls and get your own nuclear weapons?
I would spit in your every upvoter face and shit on yours after those words :)
leszek try to grow up before it's too late.
you and your polish paranoia is really a bit over the top.
shouldn't you be selling apples or bending over for the amis like your diplomats do.
agressive polish moron.
u tried already to got to Moscow some 95 years ago.
A high noon, that the russian army once more time storms Warsaw and divides Poland between Germany and Russia.
u agree?
The missle shield doesn't protect Europe as they can't shoot down short-range nuclear armed cruise missiles; they can only shoot down ICBMs.
So what the corrupt politicians of Europe are doing is allowing the neocons to create a US first strike capacity.
Three guesses how that ends.
@leszek: unlike US that never use their military to force their political interests...
Maybe the Soviet should have let Hitler ass rape you the poles.
Need to kill as many as young men as possible in order to reduce population...
If there was a time to totally collapse the dollar, the time is NOW!!!
Only a domestic American all-out armed revolution can stop these criminals!! This is a race against time because not before long Americans will get disarmed. Then we have a check-mate.
Waggling yer dick in front of someone with an atomic sword doesn't sound like a good idea to me...
120 combat vehicles. wow
just how far do you think they're going to get with that.
who do they think they are confronting?
what a bunch of a**holes.
"the focus should be on what is the desired end state, and can we get there using diplomatic and economic pressure and support."
And what exacttly is the desired end state? Maybe he can be more precise because I don't think the European leaders understand what the end state is. In my opinion the fight is about hegemony over Eurasia and some will not doubt to turn Europe into a wasteland in order to achieve that.
Russia Under Attack
Paul Craig Roberts
While Washington works assiduously to undermine the Minsk agreement that German chancellor Merkel and French president Hollande achieved in order to halt the military conflict in Ukraine, Washington has sent Victoria Nuland to Armenia to organize a “color revolution” or coup there, has sent Richard Miles as ambassador to Kyrgyzstan to do the same there, and has sent Pamela Spratlen as ambassador to Uzbekistan to purchase that government’s allegiance away from Russia. The result would be to break up the Collective Security Treaty Organization and present Russia and China with destabilization where they can least afford it. For details go here: http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/03/18/4656
Thus, Russia faces the renewal of conflict in Ukraine simultaneously with three more Ukraine-type situations along its Asian border.
And this is only the beginning of the pressure that Washington is mounting on Russia.....
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/03/20/russia-attack-paul-craig-robe...
"parade 120 vehicles" = oooooow...someone needs to pay there NATO dues. That proposed European Army will be a fucking Juggernaut.
"War is a mere continuation of policy by other means." - von Clausewitz
So, if we now see the failed policies of the "Empire" in Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, we might as well extend the bafoonery to Europe, and East of Europe as well.
Because, there is a cave East of Europe, and it has a big bear in it. And we must prod the bear, because we want what is in its cave. The world is not enough, we wants the cave too.
Fucktards.
Thank God for the planet that Putin is a sane and rational man doing his best to defend his people whilst keeping the peace in the face of abusive and dangerous provocations. If NATO's aim is to make Putin look weak they are failing.
It makes him look a great man in the face of posturing and warmongering putting all life at risk.
120 armoured personel carriers or similar - now which of the Russian rockets will dispatch the lot almost without help?
Very impressive - I think not.
I don't think the numbers (it's "only" 120 armored vehicles) are important in this case. sure it's not enough to do much of anything with in and of itself, but that parade is just a small part of the hardware Washington has gathered along the Russian border in recent months. from what I've read it's somewhere between 750 to 1,000 depending on the source but I think one can clearly see why Russia just mobilized some 80,000 troops across almost a half dozen military districts.
rolling any amount of military hardware right along Russia's border at this point and time, with tensions as they are show the depth of western arrogance and psychopathy. it is a pure and naked provocation and an act of senseless aggression, senseless in the fact that doing it serves no tactical or diplomatic purpose. it's just more of what DC has been doing for the past 2 years now, goading the bear to war, attempting to get them to throw the first punch so they can claim some false reactionary, "we have no choice, we didn't ask for this" moral high ground when it comes time for global strike command to do there thing.
note how our media is playing up the Russian nuclear threat recently, every time any Russian official even utters the N word it's getting plastered in the headlines, whether it was actually said or not, or whether the comment was taken wildly out of context or not doesn't matter. what is important is that Russia is now holding the entire world hostage and that Vladimir Putin is a mad Russian who is prepared to nuke anybody in order to achieve his goals.
terrorism is so 2001, IS was an epic failure and is useless as far as being a domestic control through fear mechanism as john q public has heard it all before and largely just does not give a shit. but Russian nuclear weapons under the command of a power mad dictator who is bent on re-building the old empire or take the globe down trying, now that is something they can work with. after all one can justify doing anything, going to any lengths, spending any amount of blood or treasure when it's one very existence at stake and not just a few buildings. which is exactly what the propaganda machine is not so subtlety is suggesting every day in the news, op eds and social media campaigns.
the clearest message of all is that war is coming, the first moves of which may have already taken place. as somebody who grew up towards the end of the cold war and is very familiar with duck and cover drills, fallout shelters and the concept of MAD it is very surreal to see it all come back around this point. only thing is this time there is nobody on our side of the pond to pull use back from the brink, in fact Washington seems very determined by there words and deeds to throw us, head first, into the nuclear abyss.
I would end this by saying hedge accordingly but...
maybe getting right with your maker would be a better idea at this point.
There are people saying something bad happened on Monday, that was not reported, between the US and Russia. It is all alt news youtube channels. I don't even want to repeat the details because it is pretty outlandish. I would think gold would be up a lot more if any of it were true. It is worth looking into.
This is simply a means of bleeding the russian warchest by forcing military deployment along much of their border. It is an expensive endeavour especially with oil heading lower. Finally Obumbles does something useful and the howling of the russians here is proving that worth.
Why not, they bit on Regans, "starwars" and it bled them dry. It was the best Propaganda ploy in my lifetime. The US military can fake it longer than the Rooskie can take it, dollah wise. When the dollah is no longer King it's going to be a whole new world.
Using nukes against a warship is rather wasteful.
And I think the Russkies ( and we ) know that.
OTOH, "a" nuke against several warships, ( while still wasteful )
would send a rather precise sort of message.
Now I wonder which side will try that?
dont mess with putin
http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/ll_a_s/2015/Mar/21/LiveLeak-dot-com-0b7_...
there is a great utube clip of a nato convoy "within 300 feet of the russian border!" passing through a town where the residents regaled them with the russian national anthem.
nato will not fight with the usa against russia. if they do eurotrash deserve to have to learn russian in elementary school.
Russia is finished in so many ways... The only problem is to avoid war NOW. Long enough, to give Russia time to collapse. Then China will conquest Russia (best option for the world), or muslims take power over (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1Kqh8cTi34), or country simply fall apart (worst option because of huge nuclear arsenal).
https://www.stratfor.com/forecast/decade-forecast-2015-2025
I would prefer better future for ordinary Russians, I like them, I understand them, but their leaders are pushing them to the abyss. Russian society has lost thousands of wisest intellectualists because of Lenin, Stalin, WW2, soviets. And now Russians are still being lied by Kremlin's propaganda, have no time to grow up, create new wise elites, free civic society. That's why this country is doomed.
Without freedom you can build North Korea, not prosperous, peaceful country.
Russia's big territory is one of the biggest obstacles to build modern, democratic country, yet Kremlin still wants more and more. And is using army to achieve this goal. Threaten neighbors with nuclear war. This is truly archaic way of looking at the world around. We all know that NATO will never attacks Russia as first. Kremlin knows that too, but Russian leaders have mentality of bandits: they like to take what they want by force. So they are using rhetoric of war to keep society and big energy industry under total control. This way is leading nowhere, but they don't understand it. Or simply don't care about it.
NATO will never attack first? tell that to Libyans... NATO even like to bomb their own citizens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k83L3I6Z35w you are so detached from reality it's ridiculous... :-P
Looks like China will take over Russia as puppet state where all resources will belong to China. And that will be the end of that nation.
It's a pity. Lost oportunity for the world. But... in same time people got brainwashed two times - by Lenin, Stalin and now by putin regime. So I guess they deserve that.
Your wet dream is running down your leg.
Wipe yourself off, fool.
Russia is ascending. Pretty much everything you said applies to the USA, not Russia. No, ty ney govaresh pa rooski. Tak, ty ney zhnayesh o Russia. Ty govaresh ot tavoi zhopa. It is so sad when hacks show up out of their league and actually try. Go back to trolling yahoo. People here do indepth research for a living.
How does it feel for you to go to sleep knowing you are a pathetic putin regime troll? You are not information soldier as they say you - you are next hiter propaganda troll.
https://youtu.be/a0DEbJitRaY
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31962644
No dude. I am the guy that said buy Russian bonds 3 weeks before Goldman Sachs figured it out for very specific reasons which I posted here. And if you don't know how the Russian economy works, and you just spout nonsense all day, you will never understand why that was such a good trade...caused...yes caused...by the banking sanctions. But see, you don't know anything about Russia. Nothing. Want to know something else? Russia is not to be fkd with. The fantasy of a unipolar world was just that.
All I see are moving target for Putin's ICBMs...
1. Barrack Hussain Obanana is trying to eliminate the fair skinned people from the face of earth (Because they enslaved his ancestors for slavery)
2. As well as his Israeli masters of the America who were persecuted and roasted to ashes in Europe, now with America in their demonic possession they want to settle & pay back for all the history did to them in Europe.
Common interests!!!
& looks like Europeans have not learned their lesson even after 2 World wars. They are gonna be converted into grilled meat (but radioactive).
Fact : War on palestine and war on Ukraine were started on the same day (and money was made in both). America looted billions in gold from Ukraine and Israel was paid in billions for *loss* in war on palestine.
Hah ha ha
And now that a few days have passed and the sensational head line was meaningless.
We had more combat vehicles in my unit alone every time we went on maneuvers.
Go Reforger.
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