Authored by Kyle Anzalone & Will Porter via The Libertarian Institute,
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization will soon conduct large-scale exercises in the Baltics, with thousands of troops from more than a dozen nations set to take part in war games just 40 miles from the nearest Russian military base.
Dubbed “Hedgehog,” the drills will kick off later this week in Estonia and run until June 3, meant to simulate a Russian invasion. They will involve 15,000 troops from 14 countries – including the United States, Britain, Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Norway, as well as non-NATO members Ukraine, Georgia, Sweden and Finland.
According to Major General Veiko-Vello Palm, deputy commander of the Estonian Defence Forces, the exercise will take place just 40 miles from a Russian military base, a facility hosting Moscow’s 76th Guards Air Assault Division in the border city of Pskov.
The size of the war games – among the largest in the Baltics since the fall of the USSR – their proximity to the Russian border, and the inclusion of non-NATO states are likely to escalate tensions with Moscow. Though the exercises were planned before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, they will no doubt serve as an additional show of force as NATO members flood the Ukrainian battlefield with billions of dollars in weapons and gear.
The drills come as US lawmakers move ahead on a massive $40 billion aid package for Kiev, around half of which will be devoted to arms shipments. That bill follows more than $14 billion in aid already delivered or authorized by the US government.
The Hedgehog exercise will also overlap with two major NATO and allied military drills currently being held in the region, “Defender Europe” and “Swift Response,” which together involve around 18,000 soldiers from 20 countries. A flurry of additional war games are planned for Germany, Finland, Poland and elsewhere in the coming months.
Major General Palm noted that Hedgehog would include more participants than originally planned due to the war in Ukraine, though declined to go into specifics about how many Ukrainian and Georgian troops would take part. “I would like not to go into details, but we are talking about a few people, not tens or hundreds of people,” he said.
It’s unclear if Finland or Sweden were initially meant to participate in the latest drills, but both countries recently applied for membership in the NATO bloc, citing security concerns stemming from Moscow’s attack on its neighbor.
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Here come the americans.
Here come the Russians with their army training.
Sad what people do to each other.
‘For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.’
Romans 14:17
‘And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.’
John 3:19
TPTB really are trying everything they can to provoke WW3.
The ignorance of NATO wanting a Nuclear exchange is frightening. It is only a matter of time. Prepare now.
At least they want you to be fearful of it.
Ya think????
Here we go again …. let’s play the Imagine game. Imagine Russia sending thousands of troops and millions of dollars of military gear to play some silly assed war game just 40 miles from our border.
How would the USA!USA!USA! react? So, why do the evil bastards in this country act all butt-hurt and surprised if Russia reacts likewise? Because we are an Empire Of Hypocrisy.
CuNNt had a rather long segment on the Ukienazis yesterday …. said that the momentum is definitely shifting in favor of Ukraine. Wow.
MartelsHammer got an immediate woody and has been jerking off for the past 10 hours.
Great timing, right after Mariupol surrendered, with war crimes trials already being discussed for the Ukronazis….
So, a ‘stock photo’ of a red muzzle brake/compensator and looks like a visible plug ring dangling, afraid some one is going to get their hands on some live ammo?
Not like they will be near a garbage dump in Alaska or anything, just Russia next door.
No provocation from the west at all, nun, nil, exactly zero. The world is set to burn.
They are tools of the dark one, damned fools all.
False flag seems like a good possibility
Apparently our leaders do not care if we all get wiped out in a nuclear war….why?
Smallpox will come first.
as well as non-NATO members Ukraine
Interesting how Ukraine has enough extra troops to take part in war games while they are in a war with Russia.
Almost guaranteed to push Russia into exactly the action they are joining NATO to supposedly prevent.
It is becoming clear that nukes will fly soon. There may be no (sane) adults left in the room.
What … could … possibly … go … wrong?
“Do you want to play a game? “