Some 3,000 US ground troops along with over 100 US armored vehicles, heavy equipment and attack helicopters, have been deployed to the Baltic state of Latvia for exercises.
NATO is trumpeting the operation, which spans Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, as Operation Atlantic Resolve, and Pentagon officials say the operation is targeted at neighboring Russia.
General John O’Connor, speaking from Latvia earlier today, said the tanks and armored vehicles sent to the region would remain after the operation and “for aas long as required to deter Russian aggression.”
The Baltic states and Poland have been hyping the risk of a Russian invasion in recent months, aiming to get NATO to pledge larger deployments of Western troops to their nations. The US, eager to needle Russia, has eagerly gone on with the narrative, adding more and more troops to the region.
Ridiculous mistake. That's 3000 subsidized lushes drinking Estonian beer rather than mine. Instead of as-long-as-it-takes to deter-Russian-aggression… how 'bout: any time interval sufficient to forestall the Canuck onslaught?
Our Government is insane. There is no Russian "aggression" or threat to the Baltic countries, to Europe or to the US. The aggressor is our Government and its puppet NATO, which has been militarizing Eastern Europe ever since the Soviet Union disappeared almost 25 years ago. We have in the past few years poured trillions of dollars into nondefensive "defense" activities which not only do not protect us, but actually generate so-called "threats" which would not have existed but for our Government's endless pursuit of "full-spectrum dominance" of the entire planet. God help my children and grandchildren who are going to suffer the consequences of this militaristic madness.
not only do not protect us, but actually generate so-called "threats" which would not have existed but for …
The inoculation against conclusions like that runs e.g. labeling it blame-america-first (or some variation). Possibly 'cause I'm not really sophisticated enough to make that case, I'd perceive a need for some case studies illustrating it… could you direct to such a thing?
He sounds like one o' them self-hatin' Americans to me. Whatever happened to "Love It or Leave It"? That was such beautiful law.
That's just what they sound like..! …kinda like if when Alexander Esenin-Volpin started 'protesting' (for lack of a better word…) and e.g. " Vladimir Bukovsky was quoted as saying that Volpin's diagnosis was "pathological honesty".[6] " …'the Party' then told him he should move to Indonesia if-he-didn't-like-it… . Which, judging from characters in the States today, they surely would've…if it hadn't been so natural to just confine him.
…other thing is that snake-oil causing what it purports to cure probably aint confined to war matters…
You can't trust those Canucks. Before you know it, they will invade the homeland and make us say "eh" and "hoser."
Birds of a greed driven feather — How they love plundering together
For if Empire USA should expand into Russia, by another glorifying invasion be so enriched, surely Poland and the Baltic’s would have a rich ruling class enriched tremendously by the occupation.
They have nothing better to do. It's like a kid and his toys, he moves them around the sandbox, pretending there are threats here and there so he can set up his GI Joes and their accessory vehicles and play war.
the more they hype the "Russian aggression" meme, the more you know Orwell's NATO forces are the ones who are aggressive.
I wonder how much it cost to send those 3k troops there and to conduct that clown show.
Time for France and Germany to withdraw from NATO and start pressuring the Baltic states to do the same. US is hell-bent on turning Europe into cannon fodder, but in a war with Russia, the US won't survive either. No such thing as limited war between nuclear states
Operation Atlantic Resolve? Riga is almost 1,050 miles from London, let alone the Atlantic Ocean proper beyond that. You can tell a geography-stunted population anything. So we do.