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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs Trump fumbles, Putin prepares to invade neighbors
while we are being distracted by other issues, this is what Mr. Putin is planning.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/as-trump-fumbles-putin-prepares-to-invade-neighbors/
snip of article:
Recent Russian actions suggest a new stage of the Russian threat to Ukraineand potentially to the Caucasus, Belarus or the Baltic states as wellthat could presage a new large-scale military operation.
First, in 2016, Russia created 25 division formations and 15 brigades, while raising manpower by only 10,000 men. This suggests the possibility that Russia may aim to wage protracted large-scale war using the Soviet model, with a Soviet-type army composed of skeleton units that existed solely on paper until they were called up as part of the process of mass mobilization.
That such mobilization may be under consideration is apparent from the Kavkaz-2016 and other military exercises in 2016 where Moscow mobilized forces from the Ministry of Interior, banks to pay soldiers wages in the fields and hospitals to provide field hospitals, as well as entire provincial civilian administrations. Russia is apparently thinking about possible protracted contingencies and is returning to fantasies of a Soviet-type military and mobilization effort.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)the world is slowly, ever so slowly, slipping into another World War? Just paranoid I guess. The current administration in D.C. and many of its ruling members looking the other way, as their homeboy Putin starts making preparations to make a land grab, is pretty glaring. Rattling sabers at n.Korea and by extension China by our rulers in D.C. Conflict in various degrees worldwide since 2000. Iraq, Afghanistan, and many local insurgencies worldwide. Just looking at armed conflicts, tensions worldwide, wikipedia....
bdamomma
(63,918 posts)stupid and dangerous man stole the presidency. Putin has found his puppet and Bannon goes on with his agenda. Bannon is also a danger to this country too. I have this awful feeling a lot of people will be killed or hurt. But then hopefully those with a brain will stop this fucking man and his cabal. Don the con's only true ally is Russia and putting his trust in a KGB'er is not a win win situation.
But then I tend to hope that karma makes an appearance.