No. 1 >Soon, Russia will launch what could be the largest military exercise since the end of the Cold War. Known as Zapad 2017, this exercise will get underway on September 14. It will test contingency plans for a full-scale conflict with NATO and interoperability with Belarus and the Commonwealth Security Treaty Organization. In the past, Russia has used military exercises as cover to invade neighboring states - as seen with Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014. Will Zapad 2017 be a harmless and transparent military exercise or will it act as a springboard for conflict on Europe's doorstep?
No. 2 >Sweden will on Monday start its biggest military exercise in 23 years with the help of a strikingly large contingent of US troops in response to the rising threat from Russia.
>One of the few European countries not to be a member of Nato, Sweden is selling the Aurora 17 exercise — which will simulate war with a foreign enemy — as a renewed focus on national defence after more than a decade of participating in international missions.
>The three-week exercise, which comes at the same time as the large Zapad war game by Russia and Belarus, will involve attacks on Stockholm and the crucial island of Gotland, which one US general calls “an unsinkable aircraft carrier” in the middle of the Baltic Sea. “If you control Gotland, you have control over the sea and the airways towards the Baltic states,” said Peter Hultqvist, Sweden’s defence minister.
Russia is ready to whoop some ass. Putin ain't fucking around. NATO is feeble. Take advantage of wheelchair bound NATO. Fuck it in the ass I say.
Blake Collins
>Zapad 2017
Hudson Torres
infowar cepa org. It's incredible how this website continues to shill the Georgia meme 9 years later.
Adam Rogers
Hold onto your butts.
Isaiah Price
It's not a big deal. We actually have exercises like this almost every year. You can goole Zapad 2013, 2009, Kavkaz 2016 and so on.
Josiah Wood
This. No big deal. Don't pay attention to these reports. No one will invade you. Baltic states are legitimate EU land, Poland is a greate country and Germany is an example to the whole world. Don't bother.
Charles Wright
>literally nothing will happen >Balts and Ukrainians will proceed as if their media and officials didn't just go full retard for a month >cue next big thing involving evil Russia
Noah Howard
>infowar.cepa.org/the-road-to-zapad-2017 kek that website. I try to awoid RT because they make even me cringe with some of the bias. But that site... just look at the list of the articles below...
You are to new to shill here, Ivan. You will be transferred to pikabu.ru Lurk more, soldier.
Eli Green
>In the past, Russia has used military exercises as cover to invade neighboring states - as seen with Georgia in 2008
Wasn't Georgia invaded because Georgia launched an attack itself on South Ossetia?
Kevin Rivera
It like you didn't even look at the man in OP. Zapad ones are actually held every 4 years.
But Russia is known for its "snap" exercises where it never warns OSCE in advance, in violation of the Vienna Document which Russia is a member of.
Also: >The Russian exercises Zapad 2009 and 2013 were rehearsals for a military occupation of the Baltic States with a blockade against NATO/EU assistance. The 2009 exercise ended with a simulated nuclear strike; as a de-escalation measure. Lt Gen David Deptula, the influential former USAF intelligence chief recently wrote: “It is not farfetched that at some point within the next two years [Russian President V ladimir] Putin makes a more aggressive move in Eastern Europe and uses a nuclear threat to deter a NATO response.” Clearly this would constitute a very serious threat to the Baltics. But, despite nuclear sabre-rattling from Moscow, it is by no means clear that there exists an intention to play the nuclear card. If it were to be played, it would leave Washington with only 2 options: to cede Europe to Russian influence and to see US credibility and foreign policy collapse worldwide; or to respond to the challenge.
Do you plan on drilling nuking Warsaw again this year?
Julian Cruz
>Russia has used military exercises as cover to invade neighboring states - as seen with Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014
-georgia shot at russian peacekeepers first -new ukrainian admins planned to evict the russian black sea fleet
Henry Sanchez
Will you apologize for fearmongering if we don't occupy you this time?
Adam Sullivan
>all the Russian damage control in the thread Omg Hilary was right
Christopher Campbell
>Sweden will on Monday start its biggest military exercise
Kek, sure will be a """"big"""" exercise for those non-NATO idiots
Asher Nelson
>he thinks intelligence officers are not delusional paranoics who get paid more the more paranoid they become >le ebil Russians will come and nuke Warsaw Europe butthurt belt at it's finest I like to roleplay as a paid Russian shill or an evil Russian hacker, while actually I'm a sincere Russian shill and learning to be a hacker.
Ryder Thompson
Just fuck right off kindly, ok? no grudge. Take a look at these sites yourself. All of the articles in OP's link is just "Putin, Putin, Russia, Kremlin, Putin, Kremlin, Putin, Putin"
And the fucking partners... the most disgusting leftist tools for pushing the agenda of turning EU into USSR.
Andrew Reed
I hope they invade so europe and US can crush the r*ssian scum.
Easton Myers
It'll look somewhat like this, but on a larger scale.
Jaxson Long
Russians had their eyes on Georgia for years. Those Russian "peace keepers" were supporting local anti-Georgian militias, who were provoking Georgian troops with small hit and run attacks, at one point they just fired back and shit hit the fan.
Its in Russia's interests to support separatist republics in its periphery by facilitating Frozen Conflicts. Countries without territorial integrity can't into EU and NATO, that's why Russia invades Georgia and Ukraine and still keeps troops in Transnistria, that's actually a part of Moldova.
>Mfw a jew pulls the trigger and kills a Russian soldier during exercise to start WWIII. This time Russia plants its flag on Normandy.
Juan Bailey
The amusing thing about the putin obsession in the west is they then parade "literally who" russian liberals or single digit/low single digits parties as proper opposition/whatputinfearthemost and then they use the fact that they didn't win as proof of election rigging/putin dictatorship. It even go as far as presenting united russia istead of the radical centrist that it is as some far right/nazi/nationalist thing that it fool european right wing supporters.
Nolan Jenkins
Autism.
Jose Wood
Posting in butthurt belt thread
Brayden Torres
>use the fact that they didn't win as proof of election rigging/putin dictatorship Not exactly. Election are in many cases blatantly rigged youtube.com/watch?v=iRqEMIdSDGE And you can find many more on yt. And Putin is indeed a dictator by the very definition of the term - all major (and not so major) decisions are done by him, to his interest (often - to his cronies profit) and there are active measures to repell anyone not from the "inside the system" from any tiny bit of power - fake criminal charges and assault included. But these are not all the reasons opposition lose, it's true.
Joshua Reed
I don't know about the more western "West", but over here the big issue is Russian troop deployments close to the border. Until 2014 Russia kept most of its military behind the Urals, as agreed in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, but they pulled out of it. In response we requested NATO to station permanent allied brigades in the region. Pic related.
Russia is still very big trade partner for us and our ports and railroads move goods in and out of Russia.
Nathaniel Phillips
Sweden needs to learn how do declare martial law before it thinks about Military excesises
Jordan Butler
#NotOurWar
Benjamin Gray
I'm pretty sure next year South Ossetia is gonna have a referndum to join Russia, like Crimea.
Justin Phillips
The bear will leave it's cage forever.
Evan Parker
whats the reason for trident juncture? surely the exercises should be in turkey/greece
Christian Nelson
As far as I know there are exercises in Turkey, but minor ones.
