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After the arrival of 2024, NATO countries have sharply reduced military and financial aid to Ukraine, and many European countries have lost patience with Ukraine. However, NATO countries have not let down their guard against Russia, and they are actively expanding their military capabilities.
As Russia continues to make progress on the battlefield, the NATO bloc has taken two major actions. The first action is to push Sweden to become the 32nd member of the NATO bloc and expand the NATO bloc further eastward.
Recently, Turkish President Erdo signed a presidential decree approving Sweden's accession to NATO, and Hungary also said that it would give Sweden the green light to "join". Having seen the actions of Turkey and Sweden, Russia has begun to seriously assess the impact of Sweden's accession to NATO, saying that Sweden's accession will not bring fundamental changes to the security situation in the Baltic.
The second action taken by the NATO bloc is to put pressure on Russia by launching "the largest military exercise since the Cold War" in Poland, Germany, and the three Baltic states. Two days ago, about 90,000 troops from 31 NATO member countries and partner Sweden have been assembled to officially start the exercise.
The joint exercise, called Steadfast Defender 2024, lasted four months and took place against the backdrop of a full-scale conflict between the NATO bloc and a "close match" adversary. In fact, this "evenly matched" opponent refers to Russia.
NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, Christopher Cavalli, made it clear that the purpose of this military operation of the NATO bloc is to exercise a large-scale confrontation with the Russian army. The NATO bloc will find a better way to complete the transatlantic redeployment and improve the ability of North American forces to reach Europe.
To complete the exercises, the NATO bloc dispatched more than 50 ships, more than 80 fighter jets, drones and helicopters, 533 infantry fighting vehicles and 133 tanks. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stressed that the military exercises will test the results of the historic "military reform" of the NATO bloc.
It should be pointed out that as early as a few years ago, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stressed the need to carry out a drastic reform of NATO, and the main idea of the reform was to correct the shortcomings of the NATO bloc that "can only fight public security wars and small-scale wars" and enhance the NATO bloc's ability to fight big and tough wars.
Stoltenberg pointed out that NATO members will upgrade their light mobile forces to heavy military forces, increasing the number of combat personnel of the rapid reaction force to respond to major crises from 40,000 to "well over 300,000." Everyone can see that NATO's move is intended to "point the sword at Russia."
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Since the end of the Cold War, European countries have generally relaxed their military alerts, drastically reduced the proportion of military spending in national fiscal expenditures, and even reduced their standing military strength. Most European countries believe that the United States will be "responsible" for Europe's security under the umbrella of the NATO mechanism, so European countries can devote more funds to economic development and welfare improvement.
The United States does not want European countries to be too "lax in their armaments." After the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the United States has repeatedly asked European countries to increase military spending and increase weapons production capacity. Rob Power, chairman of NATO's military committee, stressed to member states that they need to be prepared for "a full-scale war with Russia within 20 years."
Germany, Poland, and other countries took the lead in responding to the call of the chairman of the US and NATO military committees, Powell, and embarked on the road of military expansion. In this exercise, Poland alone dispatched 15,000 troops, accounting for nearly one-sixth of the total strength of the NATO bloc. To put it bluntly, the effectiveness of NATO's historic "military reform" depends mainly on the performance of the armies of Poland, Germany, and other countries in this exercise.
In the face of serious provocations from the NATO bloc, the Russian side has already begun to act. Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Office at Geneva Gatilov said that the military strategy of the NATO bloc could provoke a direct military confrontation between nuclear powers, which is the biggest risk facing the world at the moment, and Russia believes that there will be no winners in a nuclear war.
At the same time, Russian President Vladimir Putin also arrived in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad Oblast, located between Lithuania and Poland, on the 25th local time, the day after the NATO bloc launched military exercises, to carry out an inspection visit to Kaliningrad Oblast.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted that there is a strategic danger in Kaliningrad and that Russia needs to take additional measures to guarantee its own security and protect the security of President Putin. It can be seen from this that this large-scale exercise of the NATO bloc has had a major impact on the security situation in Europe, and Russia is strengthening its vigilance against NATO.