Despite high hopes in the US for improved relations with Russia, NATO continues its military buildup along the Russian border with no signs of slowing down, with the first handful of troops from Germany and Belgium trickling into the capital city of Vilnius, Lithuania.
17 German officers and some 30 Belgians were all that arrived so far, bringing some of the first equipment for the battalion that is being set up. Ultimately, some 1,200 NATO troops will be sent to Lithuania, part of a “spearhead” force against Russia.
The deployments were initially presented as an effort to prevent a Russian invasion of the Baltic states, and in addition to Lithuania, troops will be deployed in Latvia, Estonia, and Poland in similar numbers. Russia has added forces to its exclave in Kaliningrad, in the same region, to counter the NATO deployments.
While no one realistically expects either side to overtly attack the other, despite all the hype about needed a deterrent force, the increased deployments are just raising tensions dramatically in the region, and increasing the risk that some small spark could erupt into a global war.
All against Trump’s wishes right?
Riiiiggggghhhhttttt!
Just wait until Trump hears what his military arm in Europe is doing behind his back and against his wishes. LOL
luv from Canada.
So Germany is in Lithuania protecting the new NATO Nazi democracy . A democracy that denies the right to vote to all citizens that can not trace their ancestry back to before 1940 . Typical NAZI democracy like the one NATO installed in Croatia . Where the Nazis expelled all their Orthodox Christians . The United States with NATO has gotten themselves involved in some very old conflicts with Germany now in control of almost every thing Hitler had won before Russia turned him around . Russia and China are both now standing up . The NATO conquest is not going to be so easy from now on .