A day after reports NATO was soliciting even more ground troops for their deployment into Eastern Europe, officials are reporting “progress” in recruiting more troops from more member nations to participate in the deployment, intended to be around 40,000 troops along the Baltic states, near Russia’s border.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg claimed to have been “very inspired” by the response of nations he sought troops from, after yesterday’s report quoted diplomats as saying the deployment was meant to both “confront” Russia and to undercut Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s complaints NATO isn’t participating enough in its own defense.
The new participants in the deployment include Albania, Slovenia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Croatia, Belgium, and Norway. The size of individual deployments from different nations is unclear, but there will be four battalions, and the US is expected to provide the majority.
With all these troops headed to the Baltic coast, reports out of Russia’s media suggest that they are planning some new warship deployments into their Baltic Fleet, with an eye toward enhancing their targeting capacity along the shore.
Keep ratcheting up the tensions in the area. Russia is being threatened, not the other way around. We just couldn’t be content with winning the Cold War, but have to take the miltiary option right up to Russia’s borders. Is it their oil or just knocking off Russia and China as the two remaining obstacles to American global power and subservience by all nations?
From the accounts I have read, I think the americans are very worried that the BRICS countries plan on using anything but the dollar as the reserve currency in their future trading. If this were to happen, what happens to the dollar, and the US debt of 20 TRILLION dollars?
Can’t have that, can we.
Interesting . The American dollar has been threatened before and will continue to be until world finance reaches a melting point !
In the interest of facts 4 battalions is more like 2500 soldiers, not 40,000. The 40,000 they were talking about is the NATO “rapid reaction” force. Now, is this in addition the 4 battalions that they already committed to rotate through Poland/The Baltics, or is this more members committing to participate in that mission?
Not that I agree that any of this chest thumping is a good idea…
It’s to keep tension amongst western populations more than anything else. I don’t believe it quite frankly
Jul 6, 2016 The Telling Travel Log of NATO Chief Stoltenberg: Is NATO Getting Desperate for a Conflict?
We examine the infamous travel log within the context of Putin’s recent activities, the Balkans’ politics and escalating dissent, and the greater interests of the military industrial complex as we analyze the geopolitical atmosphere and motives that may lead to an international conflict.
https://youtu.be/Y5PF8eLYwSY
WTF : “to undercut Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s complaints NATO isn’t participating enough in its own defense” . So Trump , who probably won’t be elected , is setting up and developing policies for NATO to confront Russia ? Well it is Vote Night in America . I just wonder what the next presidential race will look like ?