Muscle-Flexing: NATO Seeks to Intimidate Moscow With ‘Anaconda’
SputnikNews.com
07.06.2016
Thousands of soldiers are taking part in NATO exercises in Poland code-named “Anaconda”. With this move the alliance seeks to demonstrate to Eastern European countries that they are under its protection and send a signal of intimidation to Moscow, German TV Channel ZDF reported.
A total of 31,000 soldiers from 24 countries are taking part in the “Anaconda” maneuver, the largest military exercise in the history of free Poland.
With this maneuver, NATO seeks to demonstrate that it has taken Eastern European countries under its protection and send a signal of deterrence to Russia, ZDF reported.
Russian authorities have repeatedly criticized this kind of NATO expansion to the east, viewing it as a direct threat to its security.
“I would not say that there are tensions between the West and the East because of such exercises in the region. Tensions have long existed. We are already in a conflict with Russia which could lead to a change of borders in Europe, Wojciech Lutsak, editor of military magazine Raport said, cited by RT.
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