NATO Chief, Jens Stoltenberg, says a massive and destabilizing deployment of troops to Eastern Europe will not be aimed at Russia.
About 37,000 soldiers from 18 countries are to participate in the US-run war exercises dubbed 'Defender Europe 2020' in the coming months.
This is “the largest deployment of US troops to Europe in more than 25 years,” NATO’s Secretary-General, Stoltenberg tells us.
Jan Oberg, director of Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research in Lund, Sweden critically responds in the video.
Germany will be the logistics center for the Defender Europe 2020 exercise. The military drill will take place in Germany, Poland, Georgia and the Baltic States and cover 4,000 kilometers of convoy routes and rely on 10 European countries to host exercise activities.
In the spring of 2020, more than 20,000 US troops will be deployed across the Atlantic to NATO’s eastern flank. Thus, within the framework of the Defender Europe 20 maneuvers, the largest deployment of American troops on the European continent since the end of the Cold War will take place.
That is in addition to the 17,000 NATO troops that are already in Europe and will take part in the war games.
The movement of the main US forces to Europe is planned for April – May next year, but taking into account the scope of the event, troops and equipment will begin to arrive in February.
Most of the American forces will arrive by civilian passenger planes, and almost 13,000 units of military equipment and weapons will be delivered by sea.
Notably, one armored brigade of the US National Guard from Idaho will arrive without weapons and equipment and use the hardware previously stored in American hub facilities in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
The 20,000-strong deployment includes 7,000 National Guard personnel, from 12 states and approximately 750 people from the US Armed Forces reserve.
How is Russia expected to respond as they see this massive military mobilization essentially encircling their eastern and central borders?
How would Washington respond if another nation was holding similar war games in Canada and Mexico aimed at the United States?
Will the American people even know that such a provocative military operation is underway? How much will this mobilization cost US and European taxpayers?
1 comment:
Thank you Bruce for important summery of the hole madness.Sweden the former neutral and non aligned country is involved in numerous US/Nato warexercises in the North of Sweden and in the Eastern Sea. What exactly is the US/Nato up to? The war Theatre will certainly not be in the USA but as always Germany and the whole Europe and this time even Sweden will suffer.
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