THE DAILY MAIL – 31,000 troops, tanks and jets from 24 countries begin the largest war game exercise in eastern Europe since the Cold War in response to Russian aggression
- Two-week long Anaconda manoeuvres are aimed at ‘checking the alliance’s ability to defend its eastern flank’
- Britain has 1,000 troops involved with 12,000 from Poland and 14,000 from U.S while 3,000 vehicles will be used
- Move comes month ahead of NATO summit set to ensure more troop rotations in Eastern Europe member states
- Kremlin said it would set up three new divisions in the west and south by the end of the year to counter NATO force
A completely useless exercise. If a war starts it will not be fought by troups. Nuclear war will destroy Europe completely and quickly.
It would require at least 5 NATO troops for each Russian.
I don’t think anything will come out of all of this sabre rattling. It seems to do more with psychological mind f**king the russians and to gauge their knee jerk responses in terms of troops and assets movement; diplomatic maneuvering etc. All in all, its just another prodding exercise and also to get all those over paid soldiers off their arses.
If the west really wanted to hit the russians hard wouldn’t surprise be one of those first elements utilized? Think Baghdad 2003. And not having this ‘attack’ or ‘invasion’ pre-announced on CNN.
Russia moves 3 divisions to western border.
Check.
Russia kicked our ass in 16 different military exercises…still think NATO will beat Russia? I doubt it!
The Russians have more surprises under the sleeve. They already show that they can jam all the communication equipment when they start bombing the hell out of NATO. They did it when they bombarded ISIS from the Caspian Sea in North Syria. They jammed all satellite, radio, TV, micro wave etc,,, in the Mediterranean Sea with a radios of 600 kilometers. NATO will be like sitting ducks.