Posted on 02/25/2022 1:03:42 PM PST by Covenantor
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday said that Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened the alliance by telling it to withdraw forces from member nations or face consequences.
This goes far beyond Ukraine," Stoltenberg warned. "This is about how Russia is actually challenging, contesting core values for our security. Then warning that NATO should withdraw all forces and infrastructure from almost half of our members.
"They said that if we don't do that, if we don't meet their demands, there will be what they call ‘military-technical consequences,'" he added.
The leader of the 30-member alliance said that in response to these threats NATO has for the first time deployed its Response Force for collective security.
Stoltenberg said the U.S., U.K., France and Germany are among the NATO nations to have deployed forces and lead elements to assist the Response Force.
"We have to take this seriously," he said....
(more at link....posting from droid with lousy connection)
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I hope Putin gets his comeuppance.
Is NATO strong enough to counter a MadPutin?
I doubt it.
This possibility of a response no matter how remote, is exactly why Putin has not committed the entire Russian army. Certainly his generals tell him that they have to be concerned about America and the other nato countries to the West.. That doesn’t mean we’re going to do anything but at least keep the possibility ready.
I certainly would prefer that we not get involved in a war in Europe with Russia especially when we have greater issues with China. However, could we kick the current Soviet Union wannabe’s a** if we have to? Of course we could.
Maybe nato countries should start paying their share of defense expenses for a change? 🤪
Maybe we could send in the tranny’s first. That should cause some Russkie soldiers to laugh themselves to death
Putin suddenly gone insane or has he always been crazy? What’s in the vodka over there?
As a great America First President Trump confronted them and told them to shape up. They had their feet up on the desks and we're waiting for the American taxpayers to pay all their bills. Like American city dwellers.
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"We are deploying elements of the NATO Response Force on land at sea and in the air"
Saw this on linked in…
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“I was born in Russia. My family is in Russia, some of my friends are in Ukraine. In the cities, that are currently under attack.
Yesterday I came across an opinion “if majority of Russians are against war, they would’ve done something”. This sweet naivety made me burst into laughter. Which is, in fact, incredibly sad.
If you don’t like something in Finland, you go to a strike or the protest. Then you go home, back to your family, drink coffee and watch TV. In the best case, your protest makes some things change. In the worst, it doesn’t.
If you don’t like something in Russia, you go to a protest. You get arrested (and often beaten up badly in the process), tortured by the police, thrown to jail. In jail, your human rights are nearly non-existent. I spare you the details. For organizing or participating in protests you can sometimes get heavier jail sentence than for murder or rape. Even better, if you make it to the “extremist” category (which is fairly easy actually) - you are officially a state enemy. You aren’t really a human to the state anymore.
Yesterday there were large protests against war in Ukraine. Nearly 2000 people were arrested in Russian cities. People, who are very well aware of what would happen to them, still went outside to show empathy and support for Ukraine, to express the sorrow and fury about the war. People, who are still hoping to change something in a hopeless country like Russia.
My point is - do not get an impression that Russians sit quietly and approve dictator’s actions while their neighbor is being slaughtered. Right now the nation does not have power. Dictator has. Most of the nation struggles with survival, being in the state of poverty. Those who dare to oppose those in power, disappear under mysterious (or not so) circumstances.
That said, I am not asking for sympathy. After all, it’s not my home or my family who’s being under attack right now, forced to sleep in a subway. And all above said does not justify or try to justify the aggression. All I’m trying to do is explain that NOBODY in their right mind supports this war.
WE DO NOT WANT WAR.
WE CONDEMN WAR.
NATO “response” forces? Please. What are they gonna do - yell bad words at the Russians? You want to get Putin’s undivided attention? Put the entire nuclear deterent at DefCon1. Fuel up all our land-based ICBM’s. Scamble our bombers and ICBM-armed subs to thier “failsafe” positions. Then get on the “red phone” and ask ol’ Vlad if he would like to play a game of thermo-nuclear chicken?
How odd. NATO coming to the help of a non-NATO country.
Now something doesn’t seem right. Biden could never put together a coalition. I wonder who paid off NATO to help?
Nothing is ever as it seems with these people.
Against their charter. They are going to start WW3.
Been asking the same question...Why? and why now?
Man is not stupid, so what intelligence did reveal about Russian and US situations to make him consider this could be successful?
More nations are signing on the SWIFT embargo...
beyond my pay grade....
#abolishnato I hate them.
I’m thinking either Putin is nuts, stupid, or has been diagnosed with a fatal illness. Something is really off on this.
The NATO Response Force (NRF) is a high-readiness force comprising land, air, sea and special forces units capable of being deployed quickly.[1] As of February 2022, units assigned to the NRF have been used on five occasions.
Rotating forces through the NRF requires nations to meet the demanding standards needed for collective defence and expeditionary operations. As the standards are very high, participation in the NRF is preceded by a six-month NATO exercise program in order to integrate and standardize the various national contingents. Generally, nations carry out a pre-training period in preparation for the NATO exercises of between 6–18 months. Once activated, Reconnaissance Teams deploy within 5 days. This is the first of a number of deployment phases that lead to the deployment of the entire HQ Joint Task Force and Immediate Reaction Forces within 30 days.
The NRF includes units from several countries that do not belong to NATO: non-member partners, Finland, which first contributed forces in 2008[2]; Sweden, 2013[3]; Ukraine, 2014[4]; and Georgia, 2015.[5]
The most interesting part to me was the list of nation participants. Not all NATO. Not sure if its a current list.
I know right? I think Xi has gotten his ear. And Xi doesn't have Putin's best interests in mind.
There are always the Chinese to the east...if Putin puts all is forces into Ukraine, the chinese could asily sweep north and take a lot of territory including Vladivostok.
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