After weeks on NATO officials panicking about it, Russia’s Zapad wargames with neighboring Belarus are finally getting underway, and as Russia had been reporting from the start, it appears indeed to amount to about 13,000 Russian and Belorussian troops. It’s a large exercise, but by no means huge.
NATO has been predicting the Zapad games would quickly bulge to over 100,000 troops, and have speculated it would morph into a full-scale invasion of Poland and the Baltic states. It’s just the latest in years of NATO predictions of a Russian invasion that isn’t materializing.
Instead, it appears Russia is delivering exactly what it said, a 13,000-man training exercise. This still has NATO trying to come up with other problems with Zapad, suggesting it might lead to a “permanent” Russian presence in Belarus.
This appears to be pure speculation as well, though even if it did happen, it’s not clear why NATO would view it as a problem. The wargames are expected to last around a week, and NATO will likely continue to express concerns about different imagined threats throughout this time.
NATO should be more worried about Poland Hungary and Chekslavokia all rejoining with Russia because of the stupidity of the EU and the United Nations trying to fill them up with Muslim terrorists refugees
Well said.
The various US military propaganda shows always talk a lot about “honor”. They point to the ‘honor codes’ at the US military academies, and then act as if these principles apply even after graduation. Among these is the notion that it is not honorable to tell anything but the truth.
And yet, we see the US military constantly lie on a regular basis. They openly say they lie. They name this with fancy words like ‘controlling the information space’, or ‘psychological operations’. We know for instance that in the past fake news outlets like CNN opened their doors to ‘psy-ops interns’ to make sure that CNN was an active fighter in the information battlefield.
The one thing that is clear is that the US military is without honor. Not only do they spend billions of dollars of taxpayer money arming jihadists, but then they lie about it and cover it up.
If they are so ashamed of what they are doing that they cannot be honorable and tell the truth, then perhaps they shouldn’t be doing it at all.