Britain, U.S. sending planes, troops to deter Russia in the east

[Hindustani78]

Wed Oct 26, 2016 | 12:43pm EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nato-russia-idUSKCN12P31W

By Robin Emmott and Phil Stewart | BRUSSELS

Britain said on Wednesday it will send fighter jets to Romania next year and the United States promised troops, tanks and artillery to Poland in NATO's biggest military build-up on Russia's borders since the Cold War.

Germany, Canada and other NATO allies also pledged forces at a defense ministers meeting in Brussels on the same day two Russian warships armed with cruise missiles entered the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Denmark, underscoring East-West tensions.

In Madrid, the foreign ministry said Russia had withdrawn a request to refuel three warships in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta after NATO allies said they could be used to target civilians in Syria.

The ships were part of an eight-ship carrier battle group - including Russia's sole aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov - that is expected to join around 10 other Russian vessels already off the Syrian coast, diplomats said.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the troop contributions to a new 4,000-strong force in the Baltics and eastern Europe were a measured response to what the alliance believes are some 330,000 Russian troops stationed on Russia's western flank near Moscow.

"This month alone, Russia has deployed nuclear-capable Iskander missiles to Kaliningrad and suspended a weapons-grade plutonium agreement with the United States," Stoltenberg said, also accusing Russia of continued support for rebels in Ukraine.

Those ballistic missiles can hit targets across Poland and the Baltics, although NATO officials declined to say if Russia had moved nuclear warheads to Kaliningrad.

NATO's aim is to make good on a July promise by NATO leaders to deter Russia in Europe's ex-Soviet states, after Moscow orchestrated the annexation of the Crimea peninsula in 2014.

NATO's plan is to set up four battle groups with a total of some 4,000 troops from early next year, backed by a 40,000-strong rapid-reaction force, and if need be, follow-on forces.

As part of that, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced a "battle-ready battalion task force" of about 900 soldiers would be sent to eastern Poland, as well as another, separate force equipped with tanks and other heavy equipment to move across eastern Europe.

"It's a major sign of the U.S. commitment to strengthening deterrence here," Carter said.

Britain's Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said Britain would send an 800-strong battalion to Estonia, supported by French and Danish troops, starting from May. The United States wants its troops in position by June.

London is also sending Typhoon fighter aircraft to Romania to patrol around the Black Sea, partly in support of Turkey.

"Although we are leaving the European Union, we will be doing more to help secure the eastern and southern flanks of NATO," Fallon said.

SYRIAN SHADOW

Others NATO allies joined the four battle groups led by the United States, Germany, Britain and Canada to go to Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. Canada said it was sending 450 troops to Latvia, joined by 140 military personnel from Italy.

Germany said it was sending between 400 and 600 troops to Lithuania, with additional forces from the Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, Croatia and Luxembourg.


Stoltenberg said allies' commitments would be "a clear demonstration of our transatlantic bond." Diplomats said it would also send a message to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who has complained that European allies do not pay their way in the alliance.

For the Kremlin, the U.S.-led alliance's plans are already too much given Russia's grievances at NATO's expansion eastwards, although Stoltenberg denied going too far.

But NATO's troop announcements in the Baltic states and Poland were partly overshadowed by the dispute about whether Spain should refuel the Russian warships, which was later resolved by Moscow's decision to withdraw its request.

NATO's tensions with Russia have been building since Crimea and the West's decision to impose retaliatory sanctions.

But the breakdown of a U.S-Russia brokered ceasefire in Syria on Oct. 3, followed by U.S. accusations that Russia has used cyber attacks to disrupt the presidential election, have signaled a worsening of ties.

Even before the break down of the Syrian ceasefire, Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended a treaty with Washington on cleaning up weapons-grade plutonium, signaling he was willing to use nuclear disarmament as a new bargaining chip in disputes with the United States over Ukraine and Syria.

(Additional reporting by Sabine Siebold; Editing by Tom Heneghan)

 

[maximuswarrior]

The war is on.

 

[jupiter2007]

Peanuts compare to what Russia has.
Russia is not Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen.

 

[T-Rex]

Peanuts compare to what Russia has.
Russia is not Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen.

Of course Syria is not Russia, if it was Russia wouldn't be able to do what she has been doing in Syria.

 

[TMA]

Wed Oct 26, 2016 | 12:43pm EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nato-russia-idUSKCN12P31W

By Robin Emmott and Phil Stewart | BRUSSELS

Britain said on Wednesday it will send fighter jets to Romania next year and the United States promised troops, tanks and artillery to Poland in NATO's biggest military build-up on Russia's borders since the Cold War.

Germany, Canada and other NATO allies also pledged forces at a defense ministers meeting in Brussels on the same day two Russian warships armed with cruise missiles entered the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Denmark, underscoring East-West tensions.

In Madrid, the foreign ministry said Russia had withdrawn a request to refuel three warships in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta after NATO allies said they could be used to target civilians in Syria.

The ships were part of an eight-ship carrier battle group - including Russia's sole aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov - that is expected to join around 10 other Russian vessels already off the Syrian coast, diplomats said.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the troop contributions to a new 4,000-strong force in the Baltics and eastern Europe were a measured response to what the alliance believes are some 330,000 Russian troops stationed on Russia's western flank near Moscow.

"This month alone, Russia has deployed nuclear-capable Iskander missiles to Kaliningrad and suspended a weapons-grade plutonium agreement with the United States," Stoltenberg said, also accusing Russia of continued support for rebels in Ukraine.

Those ballistic missiles can hit targets across Poland and the Baltics, although NATO officials declined to say if Russia had moved nuclear warheads to Kaliningrad.

NATO's aim is to make good on a July promise by NATO leaders to deter Russia in Europe's ex-Soviet states, after Moscow orchestrated the annexation of the Crimea peninsula in 2014.

NATO's plan is to set up four battle groups with a total of some 4,000 troops from early next year, backed by a 40,000-strong rapid-reaction force, and if need be, follow-on forces.

As part of that, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced a "battle-ready battalion task force" of about 900 soldiers would be sent to eastern Poland, as well as another, separate force equipped with tanks and other heavy equipment to move across eastern Europe.

"It's a major sign of the U.S. commitment to strengthening deterrence here," Carter said.

Britain's Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said Britain would send an 800-strong battalion to Estonia, supported by French and Danish troops, starting from May. The United States wants its troops in position by June.

London is also sending Typhoon fighter aircraft to Romania to patrol around the Black Sea, partly in support of Turkey.

"Although we are leaving the European Union, we will be doing more to help secure the eastern and southern flanks of NATO," Fallon said.

SYRIAN SHADOW

Others NATO allies joined the four battle groups led by the United States, Germany, Britain and Canada to go to Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. Canada said it was sending 450 troops to Latvia, joined by 140 military personnel from Italy.

Germany said it was sending between 400 and 600 troops to Lithuania, with additional forces from the Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, Croatia and Luxembourg.


Stoltenberg said allies' commitments would be "a clear demonstration of our transatlantic bond." Diplomats said it would also send a message to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who has complained that European allies do not pay their way in the alliance.

For the Kremlin, the U.S.-led alliance's plans are already too much given Russia's grievances at NATO's expansion eastwards, although Stoltenberg denied going too far.

But NATO's troop announcements in the Baltic states and Poland were partly overshadowed by the dispute about whether Spain should refuel the Russian warships, which was later resolved by Moscow's decision to withdraw its request.

NATO's tensions with Russia have been building since Crimea and the West's decision to impose retaliatory sanctions.

But the breakdown of a U.S-Russia brokered ceasefire in Syria on Oct. 3, followed by U.S. accusations that Russia has used cyber attacks to disrupt the presidential election, have signaled a worsening of ties.

Even before the break down of the Syrian ceasefire, Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended a treaty with Washington on cleaning up weapons-grade plutonium, signaling he was willing to use nuclear disarmament as a new bargaining chip in disputes with the United States over Ukraine and Syria.

(Additional reporting by Sabine Siebold; Editing by Tom Heneghan)

Anti Russian propaganda.
Russia did not annex Crimea. NATO supported an illegal coup in the Ukraine and as a response the people of Crimea voted to leave Ukraine and join Russia, and Russia accepted this.
I bet the zionist world order are fuming at the fact that their plans to deny Russia a naval Base came up in smoke.

 

[T-72]

Of course Syria is not Russia, if it was Russia wouldn't be able to do what she has been doing in Syria.

they made mincemeat of jihadis in Grozny too.

 

[T-Rex]

they made mincemeat of jihadis in Grozny too.

In the end Russia signed a peace treaty with the jihadists and jihadists are ruling Chechnya since then.

 

[T-72]

In the end Russia signed a peace treaty with the jihadists and jihadists are ruling Chechnya since then.

in service of mother Russia after Putin crushed them.

 

[TMA]

they made mincemeat of jihadis in Grozny too.

NATO and Saudi funded ones, mind you.

 

[T-72]

NATO and Saudi funded ones, mind you.

yep, hope their savages in Syria suffer the same fate.

 

[Hindustani78]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nato-meeting-russia-idUSKCN12R272

By Robin Emmott | BRUSSELS

President Vladimir Putin's high-profile military deployments aim to showcase Russian power in any global confrontation with the West, NATO officials say, but the alliance will not seek to match Moscow's actions.

Curtis Scaparrotti, the U.S.-led alliance's top commander, told allied defense ministers on Wednesday that more than 120,000 Russian troops took part in exercises in September which culminated with the firing of a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, diplomats said.

As Russia's sole aircraft carrier passed Europe's shores this week, reports of its warships equipped with nuclear-capable missiles in the Baltic alarmed allies. The alliance is also concerned by Moscow's deployment of ballistic Iskander missiles in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.


"The main challenge is not individual events or deployments," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters. "It is the overall picture, where we see a substantial increase in Russia's capabilities at sea, in the air and on land; exercises with a more aggressive patterns."

Stoltenberg declined to say publicly what he thought Russia's overall aims are. But Scaparrotti, who is also a U.S. Army general, told defense ministers that Russia was seeking, in military parlance, "escalation dominance," according to people briefed on the discussions.

That strategy holds that a military power can best contain and control conflicts if it is dominant at each step in an escalation with an adversary, potentially all the way to the biggest threat, nuclear weapons.

Some military analysts believe Putin holds this doctrine close to his heart.

"Putin is showing a desire for dominance," said a senior NATO diplomat. "From the Arctic, to the Baltic and the Black Sea, sometimes simultaneously, Russia wants to use sophisticated weaponry mixed with ships of a Soviet vintage."

Russia's ambassador to NATO, Alexander Grushko, said it was the West, not Moscow, that threatened European security.

"The alliance is more focused on the development and deepening of its policy of a comprehensive military and political containment of Russia," Grushko told Reuters. "This vector is becoming more and more long-term."

Vice Admiral James Foggo, who heads the U.S. Navy fleet in Europe, said he expected Moscow to react negatively when Washington breaks ground on a missile defense site in Poland in late November. The United States says the facility will defend against any ballistic missile attacks from Iran, not Russia.

Foggo told Reuters that the United States was keeping a close eye on Russia's resurgent navy, as the aircraft carrier heads to the Mediterranean, a fleet of six submarines is planned for the Black Sea, and Moscow seeks a more active Russian presence in the Baltic Sea.

"They're using all these tools that they have in their inventory to enhance the effect that they want to create on the battlefield,” he said.

NATO-RUSSIA COUNCIL "WITHIN WEEKS"

In written remarks to reporters, Scaparrotti said that "actions speak louder than words" and also noted the Kremlin's decision to consolidate control of the armed forces in Moscow and nuclear missile tests.

NATO says its decision to send 4,000 troops, planes, tanks and artillery to former Soviet republics in the Baltics and to Poland next year is a measured response compared to what NATO believes are 330,000 Russian troops amassed near Moscow.

"We will not mirror what Russia is doing," Stoltenberg said. "We are not in a Cold War situation," he said, referring to when 300,000 U.S. service personnel were stationed in Europe. NATO generals want to adhere to a 1997 agreement with Moscow not to station substantial combat forces on the NATO-Russia border.


Norway, which has a long border with Russia, will allow 330 U.S. troops to be stationed on its soil for a limited period from next year, the first time foreign troops have been posted on its territory since the end of World War Two.

Stoltenberg hopes to convene another NATO-Russia Council - the forum bringing together Grushko, Russia's top diplomat to the alliance, and NATO envoys - in the next few weeks, diplomats say. Stoltenberg, who hails from Norway, insists there is no attempt to isolate Moscow.

However, diplomats also complain that discussing such issues as Moscow's 2014 annexation of Crimea and near-misses between Western planes and Russian jets have come to nothing.

That leaves NATO trying to learn more about Russia's aims if Putin continues to escalate the stand-off with the West.

"One thing we need to address is if we all have the capacity to read Russia's behavior satisfactorily. Russia is doing a lot of new, unfamiliar things," said Britain's ambassador to NATO, Adam Thomson, who served as a diplomat in Moscow in the 1980s.

"It is obviously trying to signal, but it is not clear that we know how to understand those signals," he told reporters.

(Additional reporting by Andrea Shalal in Berlin, editing by Larry King)

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nato-meeting-defences-idUSKCN12R1JK

By Andrea Shalal | BERLIN

Short-notice military exercises and forthcoming deployments will help NATO fill gaps in its air and missile defenses as it revamps its approach to deter Russia in eastern Europe, a top U.S. general said.

This week, for instance, some 100 U.S. forces received "shock" orders to move a Patriot missile defense system from Germany to Romania by rail for a joint exercise to be carried out in early November with 100 Romanian soldiers.

"We've got work to do ... but now everybody's got these gaps in our crosshairs and we're working together to fix them," Major General Timothy McGuire, deputy commanding general of the U.S. Army in Europe, told Reuters in an interview by telephone.

Exercises boost readiness and hone the military's ability to respond to threats at short notice, he said.

"We do not want a war, but the best way to maintain the peace is through strength and by being ready," he said. He said the U.S. Army Chief of Staff Mark Mille and leaders of 38 European armies agreed on that view during a meeting in Wiesbaden, Germany, on Wednesday.

Britain, the United States and other NATO allies - responding to Russia's military expansion - are bolstering forces and equipment in eastern Europe under NATO's biggest buildup on Russia's borders since the Cold War.

Russia, meanwhile, is beefing up its warship presence in the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean, after stationing nuclear-capable Islander missiles in Kaliningrad, Russia's enclave between Poland and Lithuania.

Given the increased threat from Russia, McGuire said the United States and its allies were working urgently to improve coordination among ageing air and missile defense systems of the east European allies. Some still use Soviet-era equipment dating from their time in the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact.

A live-fire test involving German, Dutch and U.S. forces in Crete, Greece, in October, and a separate exercise in Slovakia last month had proven the ability of countries to develop and share a common view of potential airborne threats, he said.

"This is all about getting our systems to talk to each other. That will better prepare the alliance to deal with (threats) and leverage the capabilities that each one of the countries brings," he said.

McGuire said he was impressed by the German-developed Surface to Air Missile Operations Center used in a new German-Dutch concept of operations that was declared ready for combat use after the live-fire exercise in Crete.

U.S. forces will take part in the same exercise next year, and Spain has expressed interest in joining the German-Dutch project, said Brigadier General Michael Gschossmann, who commands ground-based units for Germany's Air Force.


McGuire said eight countries participated in the Slovakia exercise but it will expand next year to include even more countries and multiple training areas, including Romania, Lithuania and the Czech Republic.

Deployments of NATO troops to eastern Europe next year would further bolster cooperation, with one former Warsaw pact member also planning to bring in a Soviet-era short-range air defense system, he said.

"This is one of the areas that is really ripe for an alliance approach and everybody is bringing their assets to the table," he said.

(Reporting by Andrea Shalal; Editing by Richard Balmforth)

 

[Hindustani78]

Anti Russian propaganda.
Russia did not annex Crimea. NATO supported an illegal coup in the Ukraine and as a response the people of Crimea voted to leave Ukraine and join Russia, and Russia accepted this.
I bet the zionist world order are fuming at the fact that their plans to deny Russia a naval Base came up in smoke.

http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/379665.html

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said Ukrainian diplomats will be working on spreading the term "Russian aggression against Ukraine" in official international documents.

"Right now, during the consultations with the EU leadership, I am confident we will spread the use of the term," Poroshenko said talking to students and teachers of the Ostroh Academy in Zhytomyr region on Thursday.

According to him, during his recent visit to Oslo, Norway, the term "Russian Federation's aggression against Ukraine" was used in a joint statement of the president of Ukraine and the prime minister of Norway. In addition, thanks to the coordinated work of Ukrainian MPs and diplomats, the PACE resolution also included term "the Russian aggression in Ukraine."

"I would like to stress what we have is not ATO [the anti-terrorist operation]. We have Russian aggression against our independent sovereign state," Poroshenko said.

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October 27, 2016
20:01
PUTIN: WIELDING NUCLEAR WEAPONS IS LAST THING TO DO, I DON'T ACCEPT SUCH RHETORIC

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October 27, 2016 15:08

Georgia supports increase of NATO presence in Black Sea region - foreign minister
TBILISI. Oct 27 (Interfax) - Tbilisi welcomes NATO readiness to strengthen the security of the Black Sea region, Georgian Foreign Minister Mikheil Janelidze told reporters on Thursday.

"At the Warsaw summit, NATO made a decision to increase its military presence in Eastern Europe and the Black Sea region and promote stability outside the alliance, help partner countries and the countries aspiring [to join it], including Georgia, strengthen their defense capability. We hail this military presence in the region and NATO activity," Janelidze said.

He said Georgia is involved in NATO debates on the strengthening of security in the Black Sea region.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg earlier said six countries had expressed their readiness to participate in the strengthening of NATO's presence in the Black Sea region.

Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Turkey and the U.S. have stated their readiness to contribute to the NATO presence in the Black Sea region on the ground, at sea and in the air, he told a press conference in Brussels.

BLACK SEA (Oct. 26, 2016) USS Carney (DDG 64) pulls away from the Romanian Navy frigate Regele Ferdinand (F221) during a replenishment-at-sea exercise in the Black Sea. Carney, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is conducting a routine patrol in the U.S. 6th fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Weston Jones/Released)

BLACK SEA (Oct. 26, 2016) USS Carney (DDG 64) approaches the Romanian Navy frigate Regele Ferdinand (F221) for replenishment at sea training. Carney, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is conducting a routine patrol in the U.S. 6th fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Weston Jones/Released)

CONSTANTA, Romania (Oct. 25, 2016) Sailors aboard USS Carney (DDG 64) man the rails while pulling into port in Constanta, Romania. Carney, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is conducting a routine patrol in the U.S. 6th fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Weston Jones/Released)

 

[TMA]

http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/379665.html

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said Ukrainian diplomats will be working on spreading the term "Russian aggression against Ukraine" in official international documents.

"Right now, during the consultations with the EU leadership, I am confident we will spread the use of the term," Poroshenko said talking to students and teachers of the Ostroh Academy in Zhytomyr region on Thursday.

According to him, during his recent visit to Oslo, Norway, the term "Russian Federation's aggression against Ukraine" was used in a joint statement of the president of Ukraine and the prime minister of Norway. In addition, thanks to the coordinated work of Ukrainian MPs and diplomats, the PACE resolution also included term "the Russian aggression in Ukraine."

"I would like to stress what we have is not ATO [the anti-terrorist operation]. We have Russian aggression against our independent sovereign state," Poroshenko said.

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October 27, 2016
20:01
PUTIN: WIELDING NUCLEAR WEAPONS IS LAST THING TO DO, I DON'T ACCEPT SUCH RHETORIC

***********

October 27, 2016 15:08

Georgia supports increase of NATO presence in Black Sea region - foreign minister
TBILISI. Oct 27 (Interfax) - Tbilisi welcomes NATO readiness to strengthen the security of the Black Sea region, Georgian Foreign Minister Mikheil Janelidze told reporters on Thursday.

"At the Warsaw summit, NATO made a decision to increase its military presence in Eastern Europe and the Black Sea region and promote stability outside the alliance, help partner countries and the countries aspiring [to join it], including Georgia, strengthen their defense capability. We hail this military presence in the region and NATO activity," Janelidze said.

He said Georgia is involved in NATO debates on the strengthening of security in the Black Sea region.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg earlier said six countries had expressed their readiness to participate in the strengthening of NATO's presence in the Black Sea region.

Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Turkey and the U.S. have stated their readiness to contribute to the NATO presence in the Black Sea region on the ground, at sea and in the air, he told a press conference in Brussels.

BLACK SEA (Oct. 26, 2016) USS Carney (DDG 64) pulls away from the Romanian Navy frigate Regele Ferdinand (F221) during a replenishment-at-sea exercise in the Black Sea. Carney, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is conducting a routine patrol in the U.S. 6th fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Weston Jones/Released)

BLACK SEA (Oct. 26, 2016) USS Carney (DDG 64) approaches the Romanian Navy frigate Regele Ferdinand (F221) for replenishment at sea training. Carney, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is conducting a routine patrol in the U.S. 6th fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Weston Jones/Released)

CONSTANTA, Romania (Oct. 25, 2016) Sailors aboard USS Carney (DDG 64) man the rails while pulling into port in Constanta, Romania. Carney, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is conducting a routine patrol in the U.S. 6th fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Weston Jones/Released)

What does one expect from zionist influenced politicians? Lies, lies and more lies!!

 

[Hindustani78]

What does one expect from zionist influenced politicians? Lies, lies and more lies!!

Its joint statement by Ukraine and Norway.

 

[T-Rex]

in service of mother Russia after Putin crushed them.

You don't need to sign a peace treaty if you can crush your enemy. The truce says that both sides maintained the balance.