Wednesday, October 26, 2016

NATO Seeks More Troops in Continued Eastern Europe Buildup Troops Would 'Send Message' to Russians and Trump

Since the increase in tensions with Russia began in 2014, NATO has been sending ever growing numbers of troops to their eastern frontier with Russia, with military officials predicting an imminent Russian invasion for months. Even though no one thinks that’s going to happen anymore, NATO is still pushing for more troops.
While the US has made up the vast majority of such deployments, the alliance leadership is now pushing for other member nations to send some troops too in what they’re now presenting as a 40,000-troop rapid reaction force deployed directly on the Russian border.

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