Posted on 02/10/2023 4:47:35 AM PST by McGruff
U.S. and French troops that are part of a NATO battlegroup in Romania held a military exercise on Thursday to test the 30-nation alliance’s eastern flank defenses, as Russia’s full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine nears its one-year anniversary.
The joint combat drills at the Black Sea training range in Capu Midia, dubbed Eagle Royal 23, involved some 350 multinational battlegroup troops who practiced firing live ammunition from a U.S.-made HIMARS, a mobile, truck-mounted missile system. The HIMARS have been successfully used by Ukraine’s military against Russia.
Romania’s defense ministry said that the goal of the drills — held between Feb. 2 to Feb. 10. — is to test NATO’s “interoperability of artillery systems” in a fictitious Article 5 collective defense scenario on the alliance’s southeastern territory.
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Good!
I’m sure this’ll make the Russians feel good all over!
350 troops?
Cover for NATO forces entering Moldova? There is an open invitation to us from the Moldovans, and if we have boots on the ground it will prevent Russian shenanigans there.
Just a signal to Russia.
Of course the US and NATO will use it as cover to run covert ops against the Russkies. What’s interesting is even though Moldova is West-leaning, it isn’t a member of NATO.
No.
“Cover for NATO forces entering Moldova?”
The pro-western govt. of Moldova just resigned.
Saber rattling.
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