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NATO Plans Massive Military Buildup On Russia’s Border, Citing Major “Reset
Zubu Brothers ^ | 4-11-2022 | Kyle Anzalone via AntiWar.com

Posted on 04/11/2022 6:01:29 AM PDT by blam

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is in the middle of a “fundamental transformation” and planning a massive military buildup along Russian borders. The Telegraph reported, “Nato is drawing up plans to deploy a permanent full-scale military force on its border in an effort to combat future Russian aggression following the invasion of Ukraine, the alliance’s secretary general has revealed.”

Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said NATO will undergo a major “reset” and plans to put enough troops in states that border Russia to repel an invasion. The alliance currently has 40,000 troops in eastern member states.

NATO considers its forces in Eastern Europe a deterrent against Russia but insufficient to actually stop incoming forces. The “tripwire” policy believes Moscow would be unwilling to kill American soldiers and provoke a larger war. Stoltenberg did not say how many troops would be needed in states like Latvia and Estonia to fight off a Russian invasion.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg talks to troops in Bardufoss, Norway in March. Image: NATO

The alliance recently announced the creation of four new battlegroups of about 1,500 troops each to be deployed to Eastern European states. NATO will have a battlegroup that stretches from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea:

Battlegroups typically are made up of 1,000-1,500 soldiers. The trans-Atlantic alliance currently has similar deployments in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland.

Stoltenberg described in March the new security situation in Eastern Europe, “Along with our existing forces in the Baltic countries and Poland, this means that we will have eight multinational NATO battlegroups all along the eastern flank, from the Baltic to the Black Sea.” The alliance also has 140 warships at sea and 130 aircraft on high alert.

Stoltenberg said the change in policy is a response to the invasion of Ukraine and will claim the buildup is defensive. Moscow is unlikely to share that interpretation. Russia demanded a withdrawal of NATO forces from Eastern Europe in the December security proposal.

Since the 1990s, NATO has expanded and moved forces into former Soviet states. Moscow has consistently said the alliance’s eastward expansion is a threat and is part of the reason President Vladimir Putin elected to launch a “special military operation” in Ukraine.


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To: cuban leaf
these big troop buildups are really just temporary and no real threat to Putin. At least, that is the way I would see it

That's the way I would see it too, but what's dangerous about this is that Putin may not, and probably will not, see it that way.

21 posted on 04/11/2022 7:38:16 AM PDT by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: blam

The war machine is gearing up.


22 posted on 04/11/2022 7:40:25 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: AAABEST

Try reading this.

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=245611

Warning: STRONG language and vulgarity.


23 posted on 04/11/2022 7:57:09 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: blam

I miss Afghanistan. At least is was a lower level forever war.


24 posted on 04/11/2022 8:00:54 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: PGR88
The Serbians are like miniature versions of the Russians: expansionist butchers. Yugoslavia was effectively Greater Serbia, according to which anyone who spoke Serbo-Croatian was actually a "Serb," just like Russians claim anyone who speaks Russian in Ukraine is really a "Russian." The Serbian propensity for mass rape, mass killings of civilians and ethnic cleansing goes back to the Balkan Wars of the early 20th century. A Serbian ultra-nationalist leader like Putin stirred up war against his neighbors in pursuit of his own political power and nationalist glory.

He died in prison in the Hague.

25 posted on 04/11/2022 8:05:46 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: rbmillerjr
Putin demands NATO troops off his border.

Invades Ukraine resulting in more troops on his border.

Putin the genius is kinda like Hitler the genius, a colossal failure of leadership, strategy and military planning.

Here's another point of view:

Putin invades Ukraine because [fill-in-the-blank].

Putin announces that he may use nuclear weapons, if [fill-in-the-blank].

Putin launches purge of Kremlin insiders, because [fill-in-the-blank].

The west concludes that Putin is a modern-day Hitler: irrational, likely suffering from paranoid delusions, and possibly viewing the conflict as an 'End of the World' scenario, due to a cultural 'messiah complex' and/or fatal illness.

"NATO Plans Massive Military Buildup On Russia’s Border" (because, don't ya know, an irrational, paranoid-delusional, terminally-ill, messianic dictator facing an 'End of his World' scenario would NEVER, EVER, EVER use nuclear weapons ;>)

What genius decided on this course of action? Oh, yeah - the 'Leader of the Free World', President Joseph "R-for-retard" Biden.

You can't make this stuff up...

26 posted on 04/11/2022 8:17:22 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: Theoria

I see Wile E. Coyote in that picture.


27 posted on 04/11/2022 8:46:23 AM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: Seruzawa

“I miss Afghanistan. At least is was a lower level forever war.”

And Afghanistan wasn’t risking WW3 unlike this one.


28 posted on 04/11/2022 9:14:50 AM PDT by jimwatx
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To: blam

the only rational response to hitler invading the Sudetenland is a massive buildup of allied forces on the border ...


29 posted on 04/11/2022 9:54:40 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: AAABEST

Thanks. This crap burns me up. I just lit the phones on fire in Rubio’s, Scott’s, and Waltz’s offices.

GET OUT OF NATO!!!!

No new cold war. No more, “Team America, World Police!” No proxy wars. Europe can sink or swimm on their own. Bring all our troops home!!!!

30 TRILION in debt!!!


30 posted on 04/11/2022 10:38:49 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally.The war is on Biden and Obama. )
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To: grey_whiskers

Thank you GW.

Yeah, we know these things, worse, so do THEY.

But we’re collectively insane now, and our pols are bought, so the globaloids, deep state and defense industrials will likely get their way and have us into another war soon - while boosting both sides.

Wait for it.


31 posted on 04/11/2022 12:29:17 PM PDT by AAABEST ( NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: Who is John Galt?

“What genius decided on this course of action?”

Obviously Putin, who invaded a sovereign country.

Now, NATO is doubling it’s military spending and shifting armor to the east and on the Russian borders. Putin did that.


32 posted on 04/11/2022 4:17:03 PM PDT by rbmillerjr (Defeating China is impossible without understanding that Russia is our enemy)
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To: rbmillerjr
No, the dumbass Western politicians expanded NATO after the Soviet Union fell which led to distrust. Next, the deficit whores raped the taxpayer/future generations due to their messed up foreign policy decisions as plenty of people connected to the central government got wealthy. While this was occurring, Western nations played Welfare State off the resources of said Russian country that resulted form the fall of the USSR (Now Saudi feels a little sorry for Russia,but not fully due to Iran which is/was being catered to by the Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama/Biden Admins. playing both sides). I think Putin just got tired of clown world which makes him a dangerous creature if Russia's guidance systems work at least 3/4 of an effective analytic consummation.

Please call me a Putin drone, that 'No True Scotsman' vapid "argument" which is water to a duck of individuals who have been paying attention for the last 30 years (Plus gives no quarter to a country going down the Woke gutter). Frankly I am sick of Clown World too.
33 posted on 04/11/2022 4:40:00 PM PDT by rollo tomasi
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To: rbmillerjr
Now, NATO is doubling it’s military spending and shifting armor to the east and on the Russian borders. Putin did that.

Biden enlists social-media influencers for ‘it’s-Putin’s-fault’ messaging

Biden blames ‘Putin’s price hike’ for decades-high inflation

It’s Putin’s Fault: The New DNC Campaign for the Midterms

Yes, Biden Will Absolutely Blame Putin For Every Domestic Crisis Until The Midterms

;>)

34 posted on 04/11/2022 4:41:38 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: Who is John Galt?
'This situation will get out of hand and we will be lucky to live through it.'

The great reset devils are so eager to get their collapse of the West that they are very capable of causing a nuclear exchange to hasten the evil along.

35 posted on 04/11/2022 4:46:19 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: MHGinTN

Unfortunately, that’s a real possibility...


36 posted on 04/11/2022 4:50:48 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: Who is John Galt?

The evil leadership of the reset gaggle do not believe there is a pointy of pushing Putin beyond which he would use nukes. They are fools. The Russians do not look at nuclear exchange as world ending and they have spent billions of Rubles constructing places to shield the populace when a nuke exchange happens. The globalist oligarchy plans to end America and the obstruction to their agenda that Russia poses. We the people are the chaff which will be incinerated to fulfill their lusted for population reduction and usher in satan’s great reset.


37 posted on 04/11/2022 7:03:55 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

Bring all our troops home? Not even a remote possibility. You see, the oligarchy rushing their ‘great reset’ do not want troops brought back to the US when the oligarchy is planning to turn off the cash world and turn on the digital currency scheme. Too many well trained and capable warriors for the police state to have to deal with. No, what we will see is an increase in our professional soldiers shipped off to parts unknown to get them out of the country the oligarchy is about to collapse and destroy.


38 posted on 04/11/2022 7:15:36 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: rollo tomasi

“Western politicians expanded NATO after the Soviet Union fell”

To Russia with love. Shit happens when you lose. NATO expanded due to Russia turning entire nations into slave states.

It’s only natural that they would flee Russia and they did, running to NATO for security. Seems to have worked as Russia only invades non NATO countries.


39 posted on 04/12/2022 3:20:33 AM PDT by rbmillerjr (Defeating China is impossible without understanding that Russia is our enemy)
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