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NATO Puts on a Show of Force in the Shadow of Russia’s War
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<blockquote data-quote="Kokavkrystallos" data-source="post: 77652400" data-attributes="member: 453600"><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px">(Now this isn't provocative at all?)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px">About 90,000 NATO troops have been training in Europe this spring for the Great Power war that most hope will never come: a clash between Russia and the West with potentially catastrophic consequences.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px">In Estonia, paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division out of Fort Liberty, N.C., jumped out of planes alongside soldiers from Colchester Garrison in Essex, Britain, <strong><em>for “forcible entry” operations.</em></strong> In Lithuania, German soldiers arrived as a brigade stationed outside Germany on a permanent basis for the first time since World War II.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px">And on the A4 autobahn in eastern Germany, a U.S. Army captain and his Macedonian counterpart rushed toward the Suwalki Gap — the place many war planners predict will be the flashpoint for a NATO war with Russia — hoping the overheated radiator on their Stryker armored combat vehicle wouldn’t kill the engine.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px">All are part of what is supposed to be a tremendous show of force by NATO, <strong><em>its largest since the start of the Cold War,</em></strong> that is meant to send a sharp message to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia that his ambitions must not venture beyond Ukraine.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px">But it is also a preview of what the opening beats of a modern Great Power conflict could look like. If NATO and Russia went to war, American and allied troops would initially rush to the Baltic countries Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — NATO’s “Eastern Flank”— to try to block penetration by a Russian force.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px">How that war would end, and how many people might die, is a different story. Tens of millions of people were killed in World War II. This time, the stakes have never been higher. Mr. Putin has brought up the potential for nuclear war several times since Russia invaded Ukraine more than two years ago.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>The show of force is NATO’s largest-ever military exercise</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px">National security officials are making plans for cyberwarfare, too, including how to defend U.S. and NATO interests against a possible cyberattack on public infrastructure.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px">But a European continental ground war has seemed far more possible since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px">“This exercise changes the calculus for our adversaries — that’s the real power of this,” said Gen. Darryl A. Williams, the American general who leads NATO’s Allied Land Command. Mr. Putin, he said, “is watching this and saying, ‘Hmm, maybe I need to think twice here.’”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px">Russia’s war in Ukraine infuses almost every movement of the exercises, which began in January and will continue through May. It is why some of the American troops experimented with commercial drones that they could weaponize by fixing with explosives, to see how to counter such tactics, much as Russian troops have had to learn how to defend against Ukraine’s use of store-bought drones that have been MacGyvered with explosives.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px">It is also why the overheated Stryker carrying the two American and Macedonian captains looks almost exactly like all of the other Strykers, with the exception of its lighter machine gun.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px">Continued at link... it's pretty long, with photos</span></span></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/us/politics/nato-exercise-russia-ukraine.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p>Nice Dog! I had one that looked almost like that several years ago....</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]346533[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kokavkrystallos, post: 77652400, member: 453600"] [FONT=times new roman][SIZE=5](Now this isn't provocative at all?) About 90,000 NATO troops have been training in Europe this spring for the Great Power war that most hope will never come: a clash between Russia and the West with potentially catastrophic consequences. In Estonia, paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division out of Fort Liberty, N.C., jumped out of planes alongside soldiers from Colchester Garrison in Essex, Britain, [B][I]for “forcible entry” operations.[/I][/B] In Lithuania, German soldiers arrived as a brigade stationed outside Germany on a permanent basis for the first time since World War II. And on the A4 autobahn in eastern Germany, a U.S. Army captain and his Macedonian counterpart rushed toward the Suwalki Gap — the place many war planners predict will be the flashpoint for a NATO war with Russia — hoping the overheated radiator on their Stryker armored combat vehicle wouldn’t kill the engine. All are part of what is supposed to be a tremendous show of force by NATO, [B][I]its largest since the start of the Cold War,[/I][/B] that is meant to send a sharp message to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia that his ambitions must not venture beyond Ukraine. But it is also a preview of what the opening beats of a modern Great Power conflict could look like. If NATO and Russia went to war, American and allied troops would initially rush to the Baltic countries Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — NATO’s “Eastern Flank”— to try to block penetration by a Russian force. How that war would end, and how many people might die, is a different story. Tens of millions of people were killed in World War II. This time, the stakes have never been higher. Mr. Putin has brought up the potential for nuclear war several times since Russia invaded Ukraine more than two years ago. [B]The show of force is NATO’s largest-ever military exercise[/B] National security officials are making plans for cyberwarfare, too, including how to defend U.S. and NATO interests against a possible cyberattack on public infrastructure. But a European continental ground war has seemed far more possible since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago. “This exercise changes the calculus for our adversaries — that’s the real power of this,” said Gen. Darryl A. Williams, the American general who leads NATO’s Allied Land Command. Mr. Putin, he said, “is watching this and saying, ‘Hmm, maybe I need to think twice here.’” Russia’s war in Ukraine infuses almost every movement of the exercises, which began in January and will continue through May. It is why some of the American troops experimented with commercial drones that they could weaponize by fixing with explosives, to see how to counter such tactics, much as Russian troops have had to learn how to defend against Ukraine’s use of store-bought drones that have been MacGyvered with explosives. It is also why the overheated Stryker carrying the two American and Macedonian captains looks almost exactly like all of the other Strykers, with the exception of its lighter machine gun. Continued at link... it's pretty long, with photos[/SIZE][/FONT] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/us/politics/nato-exercise-russia-ukraine.html[/URL] Nice Dog! I had one that looked almost like that several years ago.... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-24 5.35.56 PM.png"]346533[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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