In the Western media stir, quoting The Wall Street Journal. According to senior sources, the newspaper announced the forthcoming deployment of the four thousand troops of the United States, Germany and Britain to the Baltic States and Poland. Actually, the news is only the fact of publication and not the solution. As observers, exploring the political processes in the region, had long known about these plans. The element of novelty is that the burden of active military PR, directed against Russia, together with Washington now divided Berlin and London.
And so — nothing new. Everything goes according to plan agreed with the American administration. “Ears” the United States climbed in January to the so-called “Snow meeting” in Trakai Lithuania. It’s a beautiful name assigned to the annual event, held close to a powerful medieval castle, which meet regularly in the political and expert community of the USA and Europe. And here he was blessed by the presence of herself , the assistant Secretary of state Victoria Nuland. She urged NATO allies to join the rotation of troops in the Baltic States. It was as if the ideological finale of the project, implementation of which here-here will begin.
While in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia on the principle of rotation stationed in Rota U.S. military personnel. The number of American soldiers and officers, as well as their “equal” satellites increases during exercise, which often are. But formally, in each country the company plus heavy machinery, which for some time remains in Lithuania, as if for safekeeping until the next maneuver. In the village of šiauliai district Amichai accumulated M1A2 Abrams tanks, infantry fighting vehicles Bradley, M113 armored personnel carriers, trucks, armored SUV’s Hammer. Developed infrastructure — shops, roads, gas, etc.
And then, at the “Snow meeting”, Victoria Nuland said to journalists of BNS Agency on military cooperation with the Baltic countries: “currently in each of these countries is in the company of, the receiving party and the company of US who are willing to work, and we question whether to join another ally, with regular rotations and how we could connect these companies to the overall result was a military battalion.” The assistant Secretary of state at the same time was glad of it, “Lithuania first took over the machinery of the United States, which we have deployed in advance in case you need it. Improve your air defense, power, cyber security. And all countries in the region to better cooperate among themselves”.
The scientists are well aware that as soon as this “proposal” the United States has publicly sounded, so it worked with allies, and its implementation is on the home stretch. Otherwise if anyone of your allies, wishing not to fight, but to trade with Russia, began to doubt. And some politicians of the Baltic States, you see, scared of escalating tensions with Russia.
Conceived military-political operation began to implement a year ago. In may 2015, the commanders of the armed forces of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia sent the commander of the combined forces of NATO in Europe, American General Philip Breedlove letter asking constantly to deploy on their land not for the company, and one battalion in each of the countries. On an ongoing basis to implement this, as it would violate the founding act of the NATO-Russia 1997.
When Estonian hawk, the leader of the party “Union of Fatherland and Res Publica Urmas Reinsalu , a former defence Minister said the need of creating permanent NATO bases in the country, pulled like a naughty cat. Why voice that slyly hides? The former commander of the Estonian defence Forces, adviser to the Prime Minister on security and defense, General ants Laaneots warned: “Figuratively speaking, it would be a slipping a red rag to a bull. This is an unwelcome step, and I think that the Americans will not do”.
That Lithuanian Minister of defense Juozas Olekas said in November last year, his country’s position after the meeting with Breedlove: “We will strive to be stationed on a rotating basis in our region, NATO forces have been increased to brigade size or to the size of a battalion in each of the Baltic countries”.
Apparently, the allies warned his Baltic “younger sisters” about the need to speak is legally correct. In fact the constant rotation of exercises and still actually led to the permanent presence of military personnel of NATO countries in the Baltics in the formal implementation of the provisions of the founding act NATO-Russia 1997.
Strengthening the position of the Alliance in the region goes in all directions. Last year in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania has opened the headquarters of NATO, which are called “units of integration of the Alliance”. They have set the task: to provide the region with units of high readiness and deployment in the event of a conflict, the additional “elements of rapid reaction”. Each staff work up to 40 officers.
In the Lithuanian city of marijampolė, the United States created by the Center for American military stationed in the Baltic States, said the Agency BNS.
In General, all this is no secret. Although when you look at the overall picture, there is an unpleasant impression of preparing for war. I wonder just how distributed the battalions of the allies in the region. Until the veil of secrecy lifted Juozas Olekas. After a conversation with German Minister of defense Ursula von der Leyen he reported on the upcoming shipment to Lithuania contingent of the Bundeswehr. “It is a strong step of solidarity, which will increase our security,” he said. — We have for some time sought to make allies of our state have deployed a battalion-strength unit. I called the Minister of defence and confirmed that they made this decision”.
This decision, however, will have to discuss at the July NATO summit in Warsaw. But does anyone have doubts about its implementation after the proposal made by Victoria Nuland?
