The first of what will ultimately be a deployment of 800 British ground troops, with Challenger 2 tanks and armored vehicles, arrived today in Estonia to join the ever-growing NATO deployment of a “spearhead force” into the Baltic states to “deter” Russia.
This deployment has its origin in the escalation of deployments into Eastern Europe by NATO to nominally prepare for a Russian invasion. Each of the Baltic States is to get around 1,000 troops, with the US, Britain, Germany, and Canada each taking the lead of each groups.
Of course, the idea that Russia is about to invade Eastern Europe, something US officials were pushing a couple of years ago, has long since lost any credibility it once had. Instead, the deployments have been pushed as a way to show Western support for the smaller Baltic members of NATO, though it is fueling considerable additional tension with Russia for the entire alliance.
British officials say that this new deployment, which will be fully in place by April, will be the largest British deployment in Europe since the end of the Cold War. In addition to the 800 troops in Estonia, another 150 British troops are to be put elsewhere in the Baltics under different commands.
It’s 1941 again, German, British, Canadian and Spanish tanks deployed right across the Russian border, less than 200km. away from St. Petersburg. NATO is hellbent for war, trying to provoke Russia using the Baltic and Polish stooges as cannon fodder. If this isn’t stopped, this deployment will become the repeat of Operation Barbarossa.
exaggerate much ?
Of course barbarosa was a success because British, Canadian and Spanish tanks participated with their German ally.
I thought Russia was the aggressor, LOL. I didn’t know Russia was sending tanks and thousands of soldiers to the borders of the EU. This is where the deviant corporate/state media fails the west. They only parrot what their masters tell them to say when it is the absolute opposite.
Should we call this ‘Trump’ escalation or US escalation. Is it long enough since Obama’s term ended to start thinking in terms of ‘Trump’. And will Raimondo approve?
Shall we just call Trump bad? Please, please can someine help Don — he just cannot wait to declare Trump bad — never mind his only two months in the office.
UK is still reviewing fhe 19th century Crimean war. And getting itself so clise to Russia — hmm. Temptations are great. But UK is no longer an empire, dven though it cannot stop thinking that way.