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    Why Russia Is So Freaked Out Over NATO’s Recent Military Drills

    I think Russia is worried most about US developments in missile defense.

    Why Russia Is So Freaked Out Over NATO’s Recent Military Drills

    There is the Latin adage, “Si vis pacem, para bellum,” which translated says, “If you want peace, prepare for war.” That line of thinking has been used by countless military planners over the centuries, while the very concept of “para bellum” was used as a motto by German arms maker Deutsche Waffen und Muntionsfabriken (DWM), which went on to develop the near-universal 9mm Parabellum pistol and submachine cartridge.

    Today, militaries around the world train for the wars they hope never to fight – and some politicians suggest that such preparation could be a serious threat to world peace. Deputy Secretary of Russia’s Security Council Mikhail Popov warned in an interview with the Russian-language Rossiyskaya Gazeta daily this week that NATO’s stepped-up military activity, as well as the development of missile defense in the United States now contribute to an increased military threat and security challenge for Moscow.


    “No doubt,” Popov explained when he was asked whether NATO troop maneuvers near Russia’s borders should be seen as new threats according to a report from Tass on Wednesday.


    “The mounting military dangers and military threats to Russia are also facilitated by NATO’s active military activities, the development of U.S. global missile defense capabilities along with [the drills] practicing the use of large military formations and nuclear weapons against Russia,” Popov added. “And all this is taking place right before our eyes.”


    Recent training drills have raised concerns in Moscow, including NATO’s Defender Europe 2021, the largest multinational exercise since the Cold War, with troops from twenty-six partner nations involved, had recently conducted near Russia’s borders. While Popov didn’t call it out by name, NATO also concluded its Sea Breeze 2021 (SB21) exercise in the Black Sea. It involved warships from forty countries, as well as some thirty aircraft and more than 4,000 personnel.


    “The drills practiced large-scale U.S. forces’ [deployment] to Europe, the deployment and use of large joint task force groups, as well as options for piercing through the Russian access restriction zones in the regions of the Black and Baltic Seas,” Popov noted.


    Popov has also suggested the drills in the Black Sea were a means of putting pressure on Russia in a region that Moscow largely considers its territorial waters. Just last month Russia accused the Royal Navy of deliberately violating Russia’s maritime borders when the destroyer HMS Defender sailed past Crimea after a port-of-call visit to Ukraine.


    Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov had warned last month that the Russian military wouldn’t simply fire warning shots, which it claimed it had made near the Royal Navy warship – a fact denied by the British Ministry of Defence. Moscow could resort to actual bombing of foreign vessels and would shoot down foreign aircraft if it believed its borders were not being respected.
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    Russia is defending the interests of Russia. Why is that different than the US defending the US?

    It is the EU/UN Globalist Crap that they understand and we don't!

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    Quote Originally Posted by RMNIXON View Post
    Russia is defending the interests of Russia. Why is that different than the US defending the US?

    It is the EU/UN Globalist Crap that they understand and we don't!
    It's different because the US is thousands of miles from home , sniffing and skulking around other people's backyards , trying to cause trouble that the world doesn't need . While Russia just tends to business in their own region of the world.......... I think the world in general , and in particular , Europe , has just about had a gutfull of America's constant interference in European affairs , as though they were the leaders of the gang , or something similar , so America better pull it's head in , before Russia shoves a couple of hypersonic missliles up their arse , to give them something to think about.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    I think Russia is worried most about US developments in missile defense.

    Why Russia Is So Freaked Out Over NATO’s Recent Military Drills
    Do you honestly think Russia is the one doing all the freaking out ?.....(lol)

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    Quote Originally Posted by PJL View Post
    Do you honestly think Russia is the one doing all the freaking out ?.....(lol)
    Sure.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Sure.
    Will you people never make an honest effort to discern between facts and obvious fake news ? .....if only to inform yourself better about what really is happening in the world , and who is causing it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PJL View Post
    It's different because the US is thousands of miles from home , sniffing and skulking around other people's backyards , trying to cause trouble that the world doesn't need . While Russia just tends to business in their own region of the world.......... I think the world in general , and in particular , Europe , has just about had a gutfull of America's constant interference in European affairs , as though they were the leaders of the gang , or something similar , so America better pull it's head in , before Russia shoves a couple of hypersonic missliles up their arse , to give them something to think about.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    You think? Let's be honest: You think what your handlers tell you to think.
    Your ongoing insistence that I have "handlers" , is an embarrassment to your intelligence......and even more so , considering that , deep down , you know how incorrect you are .I am an Australian citizen , and I feel that it's my duty to call out corrupt actors within my own government , and the governments of all Australia's "supposed" allies , when I feel that they are not working for the true interests of the countries and principals that they were elected to represent , and we all should share. Further more , it's deeply disappointing to me , when other people fail to do the same . Evil can only prosper when good men fail to act.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PJL View Post
    Your ongoing insistence that I have "handlers" , is an embarrassment to your intelligence......and even more so , considering that , deep down , you know how incorrect you are .I am an Australian citizen , and I feel that it's my duty to call out corrupt actors within my own government , and the governments of all Australia's "supposed" allies , when I feel that they are not working for the true interests of the countries and principals that they were elected to represent , and we all should share. Further more , it's deeply disappointing to me , when other people fail to do the same . Evil can only prosper when good men fail to act.
    First of all congratulations on your .50 Yuan. This total bull$#@!. Your 100% admiration of the CCP belies all of it. "Evil prospers when good men fail to act'? WTF Not one time have I heard you condiment the CCP for organ harvesting, concentration camps, genocide repression, occupation of foreign countries like Tibet and East Turkestan. Condemn that and we can talk.

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    PJL is from the small country of anti-America. Everything American is no good. Our foreign policy is no good, our money is no good, our manufacturing is no good, our future is dismal...

    Our own version of Tokyo Rose wants us to believe that he is home in Australia just in love with Communism.

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