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Note that transfer of 90% of troops from NATO-encircled Koenigsberg to Ukraine shows that it is not NATO putler is afraid of
Since Russia first launched its invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has been peeling military forces away from its bases in Northern Europe to plug gaps in its forces suffering high losses and battlefield setbacks against Ukrainian troops.
Of an original estimated 30,000 Russian troops that once faced the Baltic countries and southern Finland, as many as 80 percent of them have been diverted to Ukraine, according to three senior European defense officials in the region, leaving Russia with only a skeleton crew in what was once its densest concentration of military force facing NATO territory.
“The drawdown we’ve seen from this region in the past seven months is very significant,” said one senior Nordic defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military matters. “Russia had this ground force posture facing us for decades that is now effectively just gone.”
...Russia is moving other high-end military hardware, including antiaircraft systems and missiles, away from the region to Ukraine alongside its troops. Russia appeared to remove some S-300 antiaircraft systems from a protective ring around St. Petersburg, one of Russia’s largest cities that is near Finland’s border, according to satellite imagery obtained by Finnish media outlet Yle this month. One missile basing area in the region, manned by Russia’s 500th Antiaircraft Missile Regiment, appeared to be abandoned entirely, according to the satellite imagery.
Koenigsberg,
Eric Holder says
Koenigsberg,
Kroliewiec, Karalauci, or Twangste after referendum for joining Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1577635915996008454
Poland’s president Andrzej Duda has revealed that Poland has entered into negotiations with the U.S. to enter the NATO nuclear sharing program.
American nukes are currently stored in Germany, Italy, Turkey, Belgium and the Netherlands within the program.
BY BARTOSZ BRZEZINSKI
OCTOBER 22, 2022 2:50 PM
Hungary’s government supports the NATO membership of Sweden and Finland and has submitted the ratification documents to the National Assembly, Minister Gergely Gulyás told reporters at a briefing on Saturday.
Gulyás, chief of staff to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, said the expansion of NATO to include the two Nordic countries would be ratified by mid-December at the latest, according to media reports.
Asked by a reporter if NATO would be getting stronger with Finland and Sweden joining, Gulyás replied that he hoped so.
BRUSSELS — Turkey’s parliament has voted to approve Finland’s NATO membership bid, paving the way for the Nordic country to join the security alliance.
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Thursday’s vote was the last hurdle in Finland’s quest to join the military organization. Its eventual accession would remake European security, doubling NATO’s land border with Russia and bringing the full force of the alliance to Europe’s far north.
Turkey was the last holdout among NATO member countries, who need to approve new members unanimously. Once it notifies the United States that it has approved Finland’s bid, Jens Stoltenberg, the secretary general of the alliance, will formally invite Finland to accede to the Washington Treaty, according to NATO.
Anyone see this about food inflation in Germany? it is 22% from March 2022 to March 2023 ...
Anyone see this about food inflation in Germany? it is 22% from March 2022 to March 2023 ...
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/german-inflation-eases-less-than-expected-march-2023-03-30/#:~:text=Food%20prices%20continued%20to%20rise,costs%20for%20oil%20and%20gas.
Sweden's NATO Accession Protocol was signed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and sent to the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
I thought they were all supposed to freeze and/or starve to death this winter?
socal2 says
I thought they were all supposed to freeze and/or starve to death this winter?
They might.
The cavalier attitude of Americans creating another fucking war, is just grating. People like you have allowed our government to get away with making another fucking war. Fuck you.
it’s because we have no say or representation. none of us want war, government does what elites want. they don’t give fucks about us.
its not just americans, think russians or ukrainians have a say? fuck no they don’t, same as us here.
The UN General Assembly has been called for an emergency meeting to approve renaming of Baltic Sea into more appropiate Lake NATO.
The UN General Assembly has been called for an emergency meeting to approve renaming of Baltic Sea into more appropiate Lake NATO.
Eric Holder says
The UN General Assembly has been called for an emergency meeting to approve renaming of Baltic Sea into more appropiate Lake NATO.
That is absurd, you KNOW that will never happen. "Lakes" are fresh water, they would have to name it NATO Sea.
Eric Holder says
The UN General Assembly has been called for an emergency meeting to approve renaming of Baltic Sea into more appropiate Lake NATO.
Hold off on that thought. It might wind up being Lake Radioactive Steam, instead.
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https://www.highnorthnews.com/en/swedish-top-politicians-cold-response-important-signal-about-defense-cooperation?source=patrick.net