According to Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work, NATO intends to send four battalions worth of ground troops to the Russian border along the Baltic, with the troops to be deployed in Poland as well as around the former Soviet states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.
Work claimed the deployments are a response to recent Russian military exercises inside Russia, saying they are “extraordinarily provocative” from NATO’s perspective. Russia in turn says the exercises are a response to repeated NATO buildups on their border.
According to Work, the US is going to provide two of the battalions, with the other two coming from Britain and Germany, respectively. This adds to two solid years of NATO buildup in the region, including both troops and pre-positioning of armored vehicles in the region.
NATO officials say they are hoping to get other, smaller member nations to contribute some troops as well, though there is growing exhaustion in the alliance on predictions of an “imminent” Russian invasion of Eastern Europe, something which clearly isn’t happening. Even Germany’s deployment is liable to lead to a public backlash.
Is there anything überpuppet Merkel won’t do for her masters?
In short, no there isn’t.
You got it all wrong! USA readies/calls the dogs to attack.
Uh’Muricas vassals obeying their Imperial Overlords every whim and command….. but it’s apparently too difficult for the Eurotrash to put the hard word on the Ukropistanis’ and demand they comply with the Minsk 2 agreements….
NATO sending Four Battalions of Troops to Russia Border is somehow not ‘Extraordinarily Provocative’???
Blooming morons. They’re determined to start WWIII, arn’t they now?
This is funny. It’s like those 20+ thousands troops in Korea. They’d be wiped out in about eight hours if war actually broke out. Pure cannon fodder intended to slow the Russian advance – except they wouldn’t. They’re just there to reassure the Poles that the US would go to WWIII over them – even if we wouldn’t.
Dumping NATO is long overdue. It appears to me to be incredibly stupid to provoke Russia all of the time.