Major Provocation: Germany Deploys Troops on Foreign Soil for First Time Since WW2

Germany has deployed its FIRST PERMANENT FOREIGN FORCE since WWII.  They've done it on soil of a former Soviet state, in what is viewed as a "major provocation" to Russia.

Berlin has officially launched the 45th Armored Brigade in Vilnius, Lithuania.

The brigade will grow to 4,800 troops by the end of 2025 and will include:

44 Leopard II tanks (203rd Panzer Battalion)
44 Puma IFVs (122nd Panzergrenadier Battalion)
PzH 2000 howitzers (455th Panzer Artillery Battalion by 2026)

Stationed on former Soviet territory, the move is seen as a major provocation by Russia, and marks Germany’s deeper military commitment to NATO’s eastern flank.

Bear in mind this comes after US Secretary of State, James Baker, promised Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO "will not move one inch eastward" if then then-Soviet Union allowed the re-0unification of East and West Germany.

Based on the promises made by Secretary Baker and other NATO member country officials, Gorbachev agreed to allow East and West Germany to re-unify, and removed 300,000 Soviet troops from what was, at that time, East Germany.

The promise made by Baker, to Gorbachev, is recorded in the US National Security Archive Minutes of their meeting on February 9, 1990, at the Kremlin, in Moscow.

Again, the collective West, breaks its word.