Wednesday, April 16, 2014

NATO Plans New Deployments in Eastern Europe

Citing Russian Moves, NATO Plans New Deployments

New York Times - ‎3 hours ago‎
BRUSSELS - The head of NATO pledged on Wednesday to immediately step up military patrols along its vast eastern border in response to mounting evidence of Russian interference in Ukraine.
NATO ups military presence amid Russian threat

NATO ups military presence amid Russian threat

JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG | AP
Published — Wednesday 16 April 2014
Last update 16 April 2014 5:41 pm
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BRUSSELS: NATO is strengthening its military footprint along its eastern border immediately in response to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, the alliance’s chief said Wednesday.
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said NATO’s air policing aircraft will fly more sorties over the Baltic region and allied ships will deploy to the Baltic Sea, the eastern Mediterranean and elsewhere if needed.
“We will have more planes in the air, mores ships on the water and more readiness on the land,” Fogh Rasmussen told reporters in Brussels, declining to give exact troop figures.
Moscow must make clear “it doesn’t support the violent actions of well-armed militias or pro-Russian separatists” in eastern Ukraine, he added.
NATO’s eastern members — including Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Poland — have been wary following Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, demanding a more robust military deterrence to counter neighboring Russia.
He said the NATO deployments are about “deterrence and de-escalation” in the face of Russia’s aggressive behavior.
The NATO chief did not mention naval deployments to the Black Sea — which Russia would likely see as a direct aggression even though NATO members Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey also border the sea. He insisted, however, that “more will follow if needed.”
NATO estimates Russia has amassed some 40,000 troops on Ukraine’s eastern border and could invade parts of the country within days if it wished. Fogh Rasmussen urged Russia to pull those troops back.
The 28-nation alliance has already suspended most cooperation and talks with Russia. The United States has dispatched fighter planes to Poland and the Baltics, enabling NATO to reinforce air patrols on its eastern border. NATO also performs daily AWACs surveillance flights over Poland and Romania.
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NATO ups military presence amid Russian threat

I agree that Russia is moving "From Weakness economically" and not from strength. But, it could also be said of Hitler that he also moved from weakness as well. Though he had advanced technological abilities harnessed he needed to take other countries to maintain his economics enough to keep going. So, Hitler (possibly like Putin) functioned sort of like a pirate by pirating wealth from the nations he plundered like an old style warlord.

 

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