Some 31,000 NATO troops are in Eastern Europe today for “Anaconda-2016,” which officials are describing as the single biggest war games held in the region since the Cold War, following months of NATO buildup which had similarly been likened to the Cold War era.
The operations are taking place mostly in Poland, with 14,000 US and 12,000 Polish troops the major contributors. The exercise is being described as the largest peace-time movement of foreign troops in Poland ever, and the first time since 1941 that German tanks will cross the country.
Early operations announced include a mass parachuting into the city of Torun, and military engineers scrambling to build a bridge over the Vistula River to help NATO assault vehicles advance eastward in this theoretical war.
The troops are advancing into NATO member Lithuania for the operation, but are heading in the general direction of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, a clear message that the operation is a simulation of a NATO invasion of Russian territory.
The biggest concern among NATO officials is the involvement of Poland’s “territorial army,” a makeshift paramilitary force built of gun club members and soccer hooligans. Two brigades of such forces are to “assist” in the operation.
Here’s a story that shouldn’t be missed by antiwar people.
Nato is saying that Russia intends to invade Poland.
https://www.rt.com/politics/345706-absurd-envoy-to-nato-ridicules/
It has to lead one to believe that the US, under the Nato guise, is about to make claims of Russian buildup in preparation for war in Poland. We need to be proactive and imagine it coming, even though we’ll know it’s just more lies.
The US continues it’s assault on Russia’s borders because that’s the method of war making against Russia in an age when allout war is prohibited by MAD.
Russia must not take the bait and be goaded into regional skirmishes it can’t take care of. It’s not likely Putin will make that mistake. However, he won’t have any ally in Obama very soon and the alternative is going to be much, much worse.
Putin and president Obama are not allies and not real enemies either . Apparently you don’t believe Trump when he says he thinks he will be friends with Putin . Or maybe you don’t think Trump will win . What alternative are you thinking that’s going so much worse
And to fill a little more space on this story’s comment board. One must pause to wonder if Justin Raimondo thinks that Trump would demand all the other Nato countries to pay for these exercizes?
14,000 US troops and 12,000 Polish troops?
Who cares? I guess Trump would want other countries’ troops to be paid for by their home countries, but I’m not JR. Nor do I think Trump is anything more than a self-important pompous windbag who talks out of both sides of his mouth.