NATO has considerably
increased its military presence in the Baltic countries, Poland and Romania and
is actively drawing ever new states into its orbit, Russia’s Defense Minister
Sergei Shoigu said.
In the
past year alone NATO has deployed thirteen times more troops, eight times
more military aircraft and up to 300 tanks and infantry fighting vehicles
to the Baltic states, Poland and Romania,” Shoigu told an annual meeting
of top Russian military officials in Moscow.
The 28-nation North Atlantic Alliance is actively
facilitating the entry of the former Yugoslav republics, Georgia and
Ukraine and is drawing Finland, Sweden and Moldavia into its orbit. It has
also set up a cybersecurity center in Estonia and a strategic
propaganda center in Latvia.
In the latest such move, NATO military command
redeployed around 70 US tanks to Romania. This is certainly not enough
for a blitzkrieg, so what is the reason behind it? Maybe this is just
a show of support for the fellow member-state Turkey?
“NATO is the only military organization
around which aims to contain Russia, whose forced military buildup
in the Middle East will be used by NATO as a justification
for its own,” defense analyst Vladislav Shurygin told Zvezda television
channel in Moscow.
“It is with this idea in mind that the United
States is going to set up a special military grouping in Turkey,
and the deployment of US armor in Eastern Europe is part of this
plan,” Shurygin added.
Washington plans to send around 12,000 tanks,
armored vehicles and artillery pieces to Central and Eastern Europe
to move around the region during NATO drills.
Most of these weapons are already on the
ground in Germany ready for redeployment to Bulgaria, Estonia,
Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Romania.
As to the Estonians, however, they should always
bear in mind that a Pskov-based paratroop division takes a mere 40-minute
flight to in order to have boots on the ground in Tallinn…
Using the war on terror and all kinds of joint
peacekeeping and stabilization operations as a smokescreen, NATO is
apparently looking for new ways of keeping its coalition alive
to fulfill its primary task of containing Russia.
The North Atlantic Alliance wants to use the territories of its new members in Eastern Europe as a bridgehead for a massive military deployment against Russia.
With NATO’s military infrastructure edging ever closer
to the Russian border, Moscow has been forced to meet the challenge
by demonstrating its own military might. It is Russia's refusal
to roll over which is apparently making the Americans so nervous…
Source: Sputnik News 14-12-2015
