UK Prepares For War, Sends Tanks & Soldiers To Russia’s Border

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In a show of force against Russia, the UK is sending 800 soldiers with tanks and drones to take up a “serious military presence” near Russia’s western border with Estonia.

It comes just days after Russian ships sailed through the English Channel testing British defences on their way to the Mediterranean for possible offensive operations in Syria.

International tensions are mounting as communications between America and Russia over their operations in Syria break down.

The Daily Express report:

British soldiers will travel to Estonia in what is one of the biggest build-ups of foreign firepower on Russia’s border since the Cold War.

The move will take place next spring, with Denmark and France also taking part in the huge military exercise.

The project was revealed by Defence Secretary Michael Fallon, who said the UK’s forces will be “fully combat-capable”.

He said: “That battalion will be defensive in nature, but it will be fully combat-capable.

“This is about two things: reassurance, and that needs to be done with some formidable presence, and deterrence.

“This is not simply a trip-wire. This is a serious military presence.”

Cold War-style tensions between Moscow and Washington took a further dip this week after the US revealed plans to station marines in Norway – just a few hundred miles from the border with Russia.

Officials in Norway and the US said they were considering a deal for extra equipment and training for the Scandinavian country.

Russia has reacted angrily to the plans, saying there was “the absence of threat from Russia to Norway”.

Mr Putin made a similar show of force last month, when he orchestrated a military evacuation drill including a staggering 40 million people.

The huge four-day “civil defence” drill set alarm bells ringing in Washington and London, with tensions already high over disagreements in Syria.

Russia’s Ministry for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disaster revealed 40 million civilians, 200,000 emergency rescuers and 50,000 units of equipment were involved in the war game, which ran from October 4 to October 7.

And last month two RAF jets were scrambled to intercept Russian bombers which had flown threateningly close to British airspace.

While the two Russian Blackjack bombers did not enter British airspace, authorities were alarmed when they passed to the west of the Shetland Islands.

The Ministry of Defence revealed jets from RAF Lossiemouth and RAF Coningsby were eventually launched as a “precautionary measure”.

The Russian planes, which had travelled from the direction of Norway, then continued their route away from Britain.

A similar incident occurred again last, when the RAF were twice forced to scramble jets to intercept Russian bombers.

Putin’s aircrafts flew in an “area of interest” off the coast of Scotland on October 12 and October 16, the MoD revealed.
This latest development comes amid a massive break-down in communication between America and Russia over their operations in Syria.

A spokesman for the US State Department said earlier this month: “Extremist groups will continue to exploit the vacuums that are there in Syria to expand their operations.

A spokesman for the US State Department said earlier this month: “Extremist groups will continue to exploit the vacuums that are there in Syria to expand their operations.

“This could include attacks against Russian interests, perhaps even Russian cities.

“Russia will continue to send troops home in body bags, and will continue to lose resources, perhaps even aircraft.”

3 Comments

  1. They are bringing about WW3 , No lessons were ever learn from WW1 and WW2. What a mad world we live in where the ruling classes are just a bunch of psychopaths.

  2. Too many secrets…

    There are discussions being conducted behind closed doors many of us will never know ever happened and when the bombs start dropping those conducting said discussions will leg it leaving the rest to fend for themselves…

    Besides, it would only take one of President Vladimir Putin’s new Ballistic Missiles to send the UK back to the stone age…!

    • I think You mean to say ” Bamba ” Phillip. UK is a recent description we in Ireland would apply to ( John Bulls ” other island. 17th century after the bastard king of Briton the German born member of the Reptilian blood line Augustus De-Sax Coburg.

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