Russia plans largest war games since end of Soviet Union
Source: CNN
By Brad Lendon, CNN
Updated 4:52 AM ET, Tue August 21, 2018
(CNN)Russia will stage the its largest war games since the fall of the Soviet Union next month, the country's Defense Ministry said Monday.
Thousands of troops from China and Mongolia are expected to join in the exercises in Siberia, dubbed Vostok 2018, according to statements from the Russian and Chinese defense ministries.
The games will have an "unprecedented scale both in territory and number of troops involved," supreme commander-in-chief of the Russian armed forces, General Sergi Shoigu, said in a statement.
Shoigu said it would be the "largest event since the Zapad-81 maneuvers," which involved as many as 150,000 troops, according to CIA documents.
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Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)"Pretty please, pooty poo." - Dirty Donny* (R)
* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
Snellius
(6,881 posts)Together? A Sino-Russian alliance? Is this some kind of geo-political realignment or just boys playing games?
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)Not good at all. When those two countries come sailing up the Yucatan Peninsula there won't be a trum voter anywhere. "Wasn't me."
Snellius
(6,881 posts)Randy Newman - Political Science
No one likes us
I don't know why
We may not be perfect
But heaven knows we try
But all around
Even our old friends put us down
Let's drop the big one
And see what happens
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mpcamb
(2,871 posts)Marcuse
(7,488 posts)Meanwhile...