[RomanSoldier19]

[ought-six]

Common military exercises. No reason to read into them anything more than that.

[Nextrush]

“War, War, War how do you like it, how do you like it?”

[MinorityRepublican]

the post-Cold War “peace dividend” is at an end

The party is over.

[posterchild]

Yet we are still dependent on the ChiComs for pharma precursors, appliances, plumbing hardware, light bulbs, machine tools, etc. I’m far more concerned with China than Russia.

[McGruff]

So if England and Russia get into a hot war will NATO join in or throw England under the bus.

[The Louiswu]

[FarCenter]

20,000 out of a total British Army strength of 112,000.

https://www.army.mod.uk/

[Leaning Right]

This might mean an escalation on the part of the UK. Who can tell? But we’ll know for sure if they reactivate the Monty Python drill team.

[dfwgator]

Grant Shapps will warn that “battle lines are being redrawn”

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Nobody’s right, if everybody’s wrong.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "... set to pledge to send 20,000 British military personnel to a major Nato exercise...."

Math is so difficult. 20 K soldiers is a goodly share of their "regular" soldiers. But in all, this "pledges" more than 20 percent of its ENTIRE military for an "exercise."

From the article, "figures from last month show there were 184,865 service personnel in October, including just 75,983 regular soldiers."

Sounds as if the "British empire" on which the sun never sets is experiencing a setting sun. Oh -- to be an empire again -- sigh....

[montag813]

Why not deploy 20,000 troops to remove Muslim migrants from the UK instead?

[SVTCobra03]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7jVqok1bqw