The final terms won’t be finalized until later this week at the Estonia Summit, but NATO is said to be poised to announce a new “spearhead” rapid reaction force of many thousands of troops aimed squarely at Russia.
Officials familiar with the situation say the troops would be provided by NATO alliance members and would be ready to react at a moment’s notice to a hypothetical Russian invasion of any NATO territory.
The officials are citing the “infiltration” of Crimea as the model they reckon Russia might use, which is an extremely bad example, given there were huge numbers of Russian troops in Crimea for decades by treaty before the secessionist move broke out.
Indeed, the “threat” of Russian invasions in eastern Europe are largely illusory, and have been hyped by the Baltic states and Poland in trying to secure larger amounts of foreign aid from Western nations.
That'll really help de-escalate the situation now, won't it. Do these idiots know how lucky there are that Putin is a peaceful and reasonable man? How different things would be if a Poroshenko, Saakashvili or a McCain were running Russia. But everyone has his limits and they are sure testing how far they can go testing Putin.
We said it from day one, Barack Hussein Obama is looking for grater wars with Russia and China, but he cannot do it alone without militarizing Europe first, without a militarized Europe USG would have to change its political policies.
Europe Neo fascism regimes and EU governing buddy looking for a militarized EU which is the reason they are no longer "democratic" as EU used to be, the social economic European situation is forcing EU governments to follow USG ideas in militarization of Europe, in this cep scenario Russia has become the enemy and therefore EU/USG-NATO needs to cooperate for a spearhead force aimed at Russia.
it would literally take months for the US to put enough troops on the ground to attack Russia, remember HOW long it took to position troops for Iraq or Afghanistan! but this isn't a NATO war because Ukraine ISNT a NATO country and we shouldn't forget the reason that The US never went with a first strike scenario during the Cold War, Russia can directly attack the US mainland, No such thing as a Winnable war when NUKES dozens of them are in the equation!
This is total madness.
Putin has no one but himself to blame. He started the fight by grabbing Crimea, contrary to Articles III and IV of the Helsinki Final Act. Incidentally, Crimea is a very good example of infiltration war inasmuch as not a single one of the military personnel based there took part in the seizing of the territory.
Do you even believe the nonsense you post or are told to post?
The people of Crimea voted to secede and become a part of Russia. Really no different than what Kosovo did to Serbia except that NATO and the U.S. had to use force(bombing) for 78 days to rip Kosovo away from Serbia.
And what gives the USA the "right" to decide what Serbia's borders should be? Or to impose them through violence?
No right at all.
Let's hypothesize for a minute… "thousands of troops aimed squarely at Russia" and nothing to do. How long before some young stud gets bored…and then antsy and cobbles up an "incident" that raises the temps and blood pressure. Ignorant politicians and political appointees who never have and never will understand diplomacy jump the shark and then order an attack against Russia. But, no fear, these "leaders" will all survive the storm because they have access to well-supplied bunkers at undisclosed locations and will reappear to lead the rebuilding when the dust settles.
Russia defeated Napoleon. The only reason the Germans were defeated was Russia, who lost twenty million people in the process. US-led NATO has evil designs for Russia and it's been going on for decades. Europeans on the whole, don't want American inspired conflict and bloodshed. They endured enough of it in WWII. Russia will embarrass NATO and America. Putin is the only leader on the world scene today who has any morality and actually cares about his people. This upsets the corporate west. They'd love to bring Russia to its knees and grab its resources, which are huge, but it ain't gonna happen. The behind the scenes money mongers, who actually run Western governments have met their match. BRICS will bring America to its knees. Yes, the country with more people in prison than any other and the country with the most debt of any nation on earth. America can only rectify its severe problems with a massive propaganda campaign and military dominance. In fact, this emperor has no clothes and is acting as a rat in a corner.
The country called, The Untied States of America, is a misnomer. The States are actually separate principalities, with their own laws and regulations. The Federal government is run by people who elected or appointed, are beholden to corporate money and care little about their constituency or their needs. Just look at decaying cities like Detroit. They are people of little real knowledge but are affectionados of hairdos, personal image, body language and power ties.
They have betrayed their mandate, their people and the world
What NATO country is Russia supposedly going to attack? And for what possible reason? The Ukraine, even without being a member of NATO, is very different. Millions of ethnic Russians have lived there for ages. Russia has many very legitimate interests there, not least the billions of dollars in unpaid gas money deadbeat Ukraine owes them.
The best hope to stop this madness is the European people, who, unlike lazy Americans, are not afraid to take to the streets in great numbers when their leaders are acting crazy and not listening to them.. So, please, people of Europe, rise up against the US-led insanity! You can do it!