Nato countries begin largest war game in eastern Europe since cold war

Guardian UK ^ | 06 June 2016 | Alex Duval Smith

[Lorianne]

The largest war game in eastern Europe since the end of the cold war has started in Poland, as Nato and partner countries seek to mount a display of strength as a response to concerns about Russia’s assertiveness and actions.

The 10-day military exercise, involving 31,000 troops and thousands of vehicles from 24 countries, has been welcomed among Nato’s allies in the region, though defence experts warn that any mishap could prompt an offensive reaction from Moscow.

A defence attache at a European embassy in Warsaw said the “nightmare scenario” of the exercise, named Anaconda-2016, would be “a mishap, a miscalculation which the Russians construe, or choose to construe, as an offensive action”.

Russian jets routinely breach Nordic countries’ airspace and in April they spectacularly “buzzed” the USS Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea.

The exercise, which US and Polish officials formally launched near Warsaw, is billed as a test of cooperation between allied commands and troops in responding to military, chemical and cyber threats.

It represents the biggest movement of foreign allied troops in Poland in peace time. For the first time since the Nazi invasion of Soviet-occupied Poland began on 22 June 1941, German tanks will cross the country from west to east.

[BenLurkin]

The Russians know that NATO is not going to attack them

[EQAndyBuzz]

This is bull crap. It isn’t a NATO exercise. It is protection for the scum at Bildenberg masked as a NATO exercise.

[USS Alaska]

Which country is paying the bill for all of this game playing?

[PGR88]

NATO and our leftist prog statists and central bankers want to let Russia know they are surrounded. If they can overturn Russia’s political system one time, Russia can be controlled.