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soryang

(3,299 posts)
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 03:04 PM Sep 2019

US tanks and troops headed to Lithuania for lengthy deployment

US tanks and troops headed to Lithuania for lengthy deployment
By JOHN VANDIVER | STARS AND STRIPES
Published: September 25, 2019


STUTTGART, Germany — More than 500 U.S. soldiers and dozens of tanks and heavy fighting vehicles will deploy to Lithuania in the coming days on an extended mission to bulk up NATO’s eastern flank, the Baltic country’s military said Wednesday.

The troops are being dispatched as part of U.S. Army Europe’s Atlantic Resolve campaign, which involves rotating hundreds of troops to locations up and down eastern Europe in an effort to deter Russian aggression in the region.

The looming arrival of U.S. forces was welcomed by Lithuanian officials, who have lobbied for more frequent and longer American troop rotations since Atlantic Resolve began in the wake of Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014.

“We have sought a larger, long-term U.S. military involvement in Lithuania and the region consistently and patiently,” Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis said in a statement. “Therefore the deployment of the U.S. Army battalion for a longer period of time is good and awaited news and a result of our efforts and investment.”


https://www.stripes.com/news/us-tanks-and-troops-headed-to-lithuania-for-lengthy-deployment-1.600424
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US tanks and troops headed to Lithuania for lengthy deployment (Original Post) soryang Sep 2019 OP
Wonder if Putin is eyeing the Baltic States? DBoon Sep 2019 #1
Not yet. atreides1 Sep 2019 #4
Good. KnR intrepidity Sep 2019 #2
So the Military is now Wellstone ruled Sep 2019 #3

atreides1

(16,046 posts)
4. Not yet.
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 03:37 PM
Sep 2019

I think he'd have to have both Ukraine and Belarus under his control. Once that's been achieved he can concentrate on the Baltic states.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. So the Military is now
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 03:12 PM
Sep 2019

making defensive moves in order to bolster their critical defenses. And doing it without Dipstick Donnie's approval.

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