US European Command has announced today that they are deploying a number of A-10 Thunderbolts, along with a crew of 270 Air Force personnel, into the tiny Baltic nation of Estonia, a move they say is meant to “assure” allies.
Air Force personnel say the deployment is an opportunity to train with other NATO air forces, and that it will benefit everyone involved. This is just the latest in a series of US deployments centered on the Baltic states.
Those deployments have broadly been part of a buildup that’s intended to put more troops from the US and Western Europe into the NATO border areas with Russia, amid growing tensions and fear of a new Cold War.
The A-10 Thunderbolts are commonly used for bombing ground targets, and have been used often in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition to these planes, an MC-130J Commando II, a spy plane, is expected to be deployed with them.
NATO is obsolete, but we must support it anywhere.
Geez, I didn’t know America’s borders extended that far? Also, A-10 Thunderbolts against Russian air-defense systems? yeah, think again.
A10 are not 1st line attack aircraft. They susport ground troops.
As transpired with the invasions of Iraq, Libya and Syria, all of the ongoing military encirclement of Russia, with the constant demonisation and overt villainisation of President Vladimir Putin by the US-LameStreamMedia and the press including the highly illegal international sanctions against both Iran and Russia are a build up towards inevitable military confrontation. The US is seeking regime change in Iran and its neighbor Russia as a means of making both become client states and vassals wherebye the United Snakes can have total global control of energy resources (the Pentagon’s ”Full Spectrum Dominance” writ large) and thus maintain global US hegemony by having the hand on the spigot for both Europe/EU and China, neither of which with would they be able to compete on an even playing field. None of this augurs well in light of the more deadly and ever growing major disasters presently overlooked and ignored within the intellectual vacuum of Washington, DC, as an overheated and soon to be scorched pale blue planet slowly loses the ability to sustain life, with the oceans’ certain death confirmed in an evergrowing tide of discarded plastic and the loss of over 80% of all sea life in the passage of less than an half century. The fact that Dow/Jones, driven by the MIC majors (Boeing, Grumann, McDonnell-Douglas, Raytheon, etc etc) might strive for a summit higher than 22,000 points won’t be worth a whistle in the wind when the proverbial bucket of slops hits the ever churning ventilator.
Sounds like Trump’d do better to follow Putin’s policy. That is, nationalise the nuclear industry and build nukes to displace fossil fuel that can be sold overseas or at least replace that imported by the US.