British media article: Russia and NATO conduct "dress rehearsal with makeup" for war

Reference News Network reported on February 11 that the British "Times" website published a report on February 9 entitled "Ukrainian Crisis Two Sides Begin to Rehearse for the War with Makeup", the full text of which is excerpted as follows:

More than 30,000 Russian troops have arrived in Belarus to participate in large-scale joint exercises. Some troops were stationed just a few dozen miles from the Polish-Lithuanian border.

Putin is trying to use the threat to Ukraine to force NATO to withdraw troops from Eastern Europe, to bring NATO's security apparatus back to where it was 25 years ago, exposing Warsaw, Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn.

However, NATO has not flinched. NATO members are bringing troops, planes and warships together into areas from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea. The coalition was also denounced as "brain dead" by French President Emmanuel Macron two years ago and described by Trump as "obsolete," but it rediscovered its raison d'être: defending the West.

Rogers, co-founder of the Geostrategic Council, a British think tank that focuses on security issues in Eastern Europe, said: "NATO has returned to its original purpose: territorial defence against hostile forces. ”

The strength of the Polish army increased from 110,000 to 250,000. The United States began deploying an additional 3,000 troops to Germany, Poland and Romania this week. France intends to increase nato's presence in Romania.

Even Germany, which has consistently avoided a show of military might, said on Monday it would send an additional 350 troops to support its 500 troops in Lithuania. Germany is in charge of one of NATO's "Enhanced Forward Deployment" (EFP) combat units in Lithuania.

Britain would transfer 350 Royal Marines to Poland and propose to send an additional 900 troops to the country's EFP Combat Force in Estonia, bringing its total strength to 2,000.

For the past few days, the British have been conducting winter combat exercises at military bases in Estonia. Backed by 44 Estonian CV90 armored vehicles, several Belgian F-16s and American F-15s, some British and French soldiers, as well as Estonian soldiers, practice offensive and defensive tactics as if they were in a real war.

Source: Reference News Network