Prepping for "Hybrid War" with Russia: NATO Holds Biggest Military Exercise in 13 Years

The Daily Sheeple ^ | 5 Nov 2015

[amorphous]

The biggest military exercise NATO has held in 13 years, "Trident Juncture" will end tomorrow.

DW.com claims that, even though 36,000 soldiers from various NATO countries including the U.S. have participated in the exercise to defend against "Russia’s military ambitions," (or what other outlets are simply referring to as "Russian aggression"), the organization is actually at a big disadvantage against Russia, not only because its trying to coordinate 28 member states with different priorities, but Russia's training events in the last two years have involved up to 80,000 soldiers, more than twice that of NATO.

[amorphous]

The exercise included cyber warfare, such as propaganda, and the use of online trolls to spread disinfo:

"We will have to think hard about how to deter in modern times," [says the NATO diplomat]

By "modern times" he means hybrid warfare and cyber warfare, like paralyzing the Internet, letting conflicts simmer without admitting to involvement, influencing public opinion by using Internet trolls, and being swift and flexible. That is what Russia does and more. Yet not everything about "Trident Juncture" is bad, claims Paul Ivan. Even though the exercise was designed and decided on before the events in eastern Ukraine unfolded, NATO was still able to integrate elements of modern warfare into the training.

[Da Coyote]

Under Dorkbama the Muslim’s “leadership” we would get our Obamaholes handed to us.

[dsrtsage]

They should give obunghole another peace prize, especially if the inevitable world war results in the annihilation of isreal which is the cause of Violence world wide

[marron]

Are we going to team up with Russia against ISIS?

[ETL]

From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
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"Joint war games are a logical outcome of the Sino-Russian Friendship and Cooperation Treaty signed in 2001, and reflect the shared worldview and growing economic ties between the two Eastern Hemisphere giants."

http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2005/09/war-games-russia-china-grow-alliance

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170287,00.html
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Sept 11, 2014

China and Russia to build major seaport: report

China and Russia will build one of the largest ports in north-east Asia on Russia's Sea of Japan coast, reports say, in a further sign of the powerhouses' growing alliance.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-11/china-and-russia-to-build-major-seaport-report/5738036
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Obama: "We Welcome China's Rise"
CBS News ^ | January 19, 2011 | Stephanie Condon
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[ETL]

March 2012...

"Obama was talking with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev when neither of them realized that their conversation was being picked up by microphones. Here is what they said:

Obama: "On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved, but it's important for him to give me space."

Medvedev: "Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you ..."

Obama: "This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility."

Medvedev: "I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir."

"This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility." That statement tells us much about the president's mindset.

The specific mention of missile defense is worrisome enough. Mr. Obama has retreated from the missile defense plan that was negotiated with European allies during the George W. Bush administration. Apparently, he is signaling Moscow that he intends to retreat further. The clear implication from the president's comments is that he cannot tell the American people before the election what he plans to do after the election.

In addition, there is the phrase "on all these issues," implying more is at stake than just missile defense."

Article: Obama plans double cross on missile defense
When it comes to keeping America safe, we shouldn't be too flexible:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/29/obama-plans-double-cross-on-missile-defense/print/
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[mac_truck]

The exercise included cyber warfare, such as propaganda, and the use of online trolls to spread disinfo:

LOL!

[amorphous]

We seem to be to some extent against renegade “moderates” (i.e. ISIS), but certainly not against “rebels” working to take down Assad, whom Russians are keeping power.

[ETL]

From Investor's Business Daily, Jan 2012:

Obama To Betray Missile Defense Secrets To Moscow
Investor's Business Daily ^ | January 9, 2012 | IBD staff

Appeasement: From ObamaCare to recess appointments, honoring the Constitution has not been an administration hallmark. But when it comes to betraying secrets to mollify the Russians, it becomes a document the president hides behind.

It was bad enough that the 2012 defense authorization bill signed by President Obama set America on a downward spiral of military mediocrity.

He also issued a signing statement, something he once opposed, saying that language in the bill aimed at protecting top-secret technical data on the U.S. Standard Missile-3 - linchpin of our missile defense - might impinge on his constitutional foreign-policy authority.

Section 1227 of the defense law prohibits spending any funds that would be used to give Russian officials access to sensitive missile-defense technology as part of a cooperation agreement without first sending Congress a report identifying the specific secrets, how they'd be used and steps to protect the data from compromise.

The president is required to certify that any technology shared will not be passed on to third parties such as China, North Korea or Iran, that the Russians will not use transferred secrets to develop countermeasures and that the Russians are reciprocating in sharing missile-defense technology. ..."

"In his signing statement, Obama said he would treat these legal restrictions as 'non-binding' and that 'my administration will also interpret and implement section 1244 (sic) in a manner that does not interfere with the president's constitutional authority to conduct foreign affairs and avoids the undue disclosure of sensitive diplomatic communications.'

Betraying our secrets is easy for a president who betrayed allies Poland and the Czech Republic to placate Moscow.

Poland was to host ground-based interceptors such as those we've deployed in California and Alaska, with missile-tracking radar deployed in the Czech Republic.

Obama pulled the plug when Moscow objected. Never mind, he said, we have a better approach: a four-phase plan that calls for using three versions of the Navy's Standard SM-3 interceptor missile that forms the backbone of its Aegis missile-defense system.

The fourth phase consists of a missile still on the drawing board scheduled for deployment by 2020, a version of the SM-3 called the Block IIB. It would intercept hostile missiles in the "early intercept" phase before an enemy missile could release its warheads and decoys. The Russians want the SM-3's secrets, and Obama appears to be willing to turn them over.

The president wants to save the New Start Treaty, which the Russians have threatened to abandon if we try to fully implement President Reagan's dream of defeating a nuclear missile attack.

Russia has unilaterally asserted that any qualitative or quantitative improvement in U.S. missile defenses would be grounds for withdrawal from the treaty.

Read More At Investor's Business Daily:
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/010912-597158-obama-gives-russia-missile-defense-secrets.htm#ixzz3jXmMbVwY

[ETL]

Documents Show How Russia's Troll Army Hit America:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america
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Kremlin pays internet trolls to flatter Putin
Ben Hoyle - Moscow
October 11 2013

Russian investigative journalists and bloggers have uncovered an army of internet trolls paid to pour invective on the Kremlin's opponents and heap praise on President Putin.

Posing as job applicants, the reporters discovered the government hacks working at a small company called the St Petersburg Internet Research Agency. ..."

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/asia/article3891720.ece

[amorphous]

[Berlin_Freeper]

"We will have to think hard about how to deter in modern times."

By "modern times" he means [insert whatever you like here from whatever idiot you like to hear it from]

[mac_truck]

Newsflash goober...both sides do it.

/bfd

[ETL]

Newsflash goober...both sides do it.

Yeah, "both sides". The US and her enemies.

And we know what side you're on. You POS.

[tcrlaf]

“The exercise included cyber warfare, such as propaganda, and the use of online trolls to spread disinfo:”

Wait...
WHAT??

We have a hard-group on FR that insist that only THE RUSSIANS do that kind of thing.

[amorphous]

...only THE RUSSIANS do that...

That in and of, is "disinfo".

:-)

[mac_truck]

Lol..we?

You got a mouse in your pocket troll boy?

/gfy

[Sequoyah101]

I had to laugh at that one also. The response by the opposition would be to shut down the media.

It’s simple. Problem solved.

[ETL]

All you and your Putinista comrades do on this site is promote KGB/FSB Putin, no matter what the issue. It should be obvious to anyone with a working brain what you guys are about.

And without even realizing you just implied that you are in fact on the ‘other side’ (of Russia and the ChiComs vs the US and its NATO allies). Not that I needed that admission to know. But it should go a long way to convincing others.

Why you blankity blanks are allowed to remain on this site doing what you do is a mystery.

[mac_truck]

That's my pet troll ETL...he lives under my desk.