Posted on 09/18/2021 12:38:31 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
RUSSIA has ramped up its war games as it practices 'invading" Poland and Lithuania - both NATO countries - during the terrifying drills.
Moscow and its neighbour Belarus have reportedly stepped up its show of military strength while Vladimir Putin has gone into self-isolation after a close aide contracted Covid.
While the Russian leader is retreating from meetings, footage showed S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems and Pantsir-S air defence missile-gun complexes in action.
The move comes in effort to supposedly repel a huge strike by a “mock enemy” at the climax of the exercises.
Carried out in the Astrakhan region, the drills - which also included the Triumph air defence system - were part of this year's war games.
The Zapad-2021 exercises - or West-2021, in English - were launched by the Kremlin days ago as a warning to the West.
They involve a total of 200,000 troops, 80 warplanes and helicopters, plus some 760 pieces of military equipment including 290 tanks, and 240 artillery pieces, multiple launcher rocket systems, and mortars.
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We’ve been waiting on WWIII with Russia for seventy years now. If there were no ocean barrier a garden snail could make it from Kansas to Moscow in about 40 years or so. That’s how slow the war with Russia is going.
Why bother? He can just turn off the Nat Gas and the EU will surrender to Russia
Careful, you might upset important political alliances between the globalists, and also interfere with several investment portfolios by pointing that out.
We should have learned from Russia that Afghanistan was not for tanks and armored types. The Russian army was trashed when it left Afghan. Many soldiers were addicts, too.
Not to worry....Gen Milly will make a few phone calls to reassure the Ruskies. If he gets any static, he will just send Blinken and Pelosi over to set them straight.
Could he promise free tranny surgery if they don’t attack?
Hate to say this, but having seen where the EU is going politically.....I am no longer sure that Russia taking over Europe would be a bad thing.
Russia, Russia, Russia
“...while Vladimir Putin has gone into self-isolation after a close aide contracted Covid.”
Going “into isolation” is exactly what world leaders do right before starting a war.
It is all fine except Zapad is a regular drill taking place every Autumn since ~1970.
It was much more impressive during the CW in terms of assets involved and still didn’t result in a war.
Putin is rattling a very rusty sabre. His military is falling apart and he is doing this just to divert the Russians attention.
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