U.S. Sends Thousands Of Troops And Weapons To Russia’s Border

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Thousands of US troops deployed to Russia's border

The U.S. military are going to deploy thousands of troops to the Russian border in an effort to protect NATO’s eastern borders from “aggressive Russia”.

Around 4,500 soldiers armed with 250 tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, Paladin self-propelled howitzers, and over 1,700 vehicles will station themselves at the border in the biggest deployment of its kind since the end of the Cold War.

Vice News reports:

They will conduct military exercises across Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary, according to a statement from US European Command.

The extra troops’ presence in Europe will be continuous and bring the total US Army presence on the continent to three fully manned brigades, the military said.

The US has around 62,000 military personnel permanently stationed in Europe across 21 bases, and has previously sent a brigade in intermittently.

Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work told the WSJ that the extra troops and gear, combined with what the US already had in Europe, meant “there will be a division’s worth of stuff to fight if something happens. If push came to shove, they’d be able to come together as a cohesive unit that has trained together, with all their organic equipment, and fight. That’s a whole lot better than what we have right now,” he said.

The decision means US allies will “see a more frequent presence of an armored brigade with more modernized equipment in their countries,” said General Philip Breedlove, commander of US European Command.

The Pentagon last month proposed quadrupling its budget for European defense to counter what it sees as a growing Russian threat.

It has budgeted to sharply boost military training and exercises aimed at reassuring European countries concerned about Russia, which seized Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in 2014 and has worried NATO allies with its strategic bomber flights.

Current equipment used in Europe will be upgraded and stored in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany, and will allow for “additional combat power, if and when needed,” the military said.

“We’re taking a strong and balanced approach to deter Russian aggression,” said Defense Secretary Ash Carter during a speech at the Economic Club of Washington last month. “We haven’t had to worry about this for 25 years, and while I wish it were otherwise, now we do.”

6 Comments

  1. What is the fault of Russia?

    1. Has satellite evidence that 9/11 was an inside job.

    2. Destroyed US and Israel created ISIS in the Middle East.

    3. Placed its country near the US Military bases.

    Now sons and daughters of the working class will be sent to tame the “aggressive Russia” and get killed in the process. What a mouthwatering prospect for the Rothschild family who want to see all of us killed.

    The funny thing is that the one who is doing the aggression is not aggressive, and the one who is after the ISIS terrorist organisation is being dubbed aggressive thanks to Zionist-controlled Mainstream Media. The good thing is that the Social Media has virtually replaced the Mainstream Media.

    Good people must rise to stop the hand of the aggressors before we fall prey to their aggression.

  2. “We’re taking a strong and balanced approach to deter Russian aggression,” said U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter during a speech at the Economic Club of Washington last month. “We haven’t had to worry about this for 25 years, and while I wish it were otherwise, now we do.”

    What was the excuse when the U.S. and its allies invaded and destroyed Iraq back in 2003? Weapons of Mass Destruction!

    And what was the excuse when they attacked and destroyed Afghanistan? Al-Qaeda’s head Osama bin Laden who was installed there to channel war effort against the Soviet Union.

    And what was the excuse when they attacked and utterly destroyed sovereign nations Syria and Libya? Evil regimes of Bashar al-Assad and Gaddafi!

    And now they have coined the term, “Aggressive Russia” enabling them to amass troops near Russian borders.

    Now, let’s examine what has Russia done to earn this title?

    1. Mr. Putin has satellite evidence to prove that 9/11 was an inside job.

    2. The Russian Military destroyed US and Israel-created ISIS in the Middle East.

    3. The Russians placed their country near the US Military bases.

    Now sons and daughters of the middle/working class will be sent to tame the “aggressive Russia” and get killed in the process. What a mouthwatering prospect for the Rothschilds who want to see all of us killed so that they rule the planet earth.

    The funny thing is that the one who is doing the aggression is not aggressive, and the one who is after the ISIS terrorist organisation is being dubbed aggressive thanks to Zionist-controlled Mainstream Media. The good thing is that the Social Media has virtually replaced the Mainstream Media and because of that their blatant lies are easily caught.

    Good people must rise to stop the hand of the aggressors before we fall prey to their aggression.

    “The world will not be destroyed by the evil people, it will be destroyed by those who watch but fail to do anything.”. Albert Einstein.

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