Despite Russian President Putin's televised declaration yesterday that Russia has no plans to engage NATO, Belarus Troops are deploying by the thousands to their border area near Poland and Lithuania. German NATO Troops are also now deploying in Lithuania near that border area.
Yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin was asked by television news reporters if Russia has plans to go after the Baltic States and elsewhere, as is being widely reported by news media in the West. The Russian President replied “What they say about us going to attack Europe after Ukraine is complete nonsense,” said
The West has been scaring its people with a “Russian threat” solely to funnel money to the military-industrial complex, the president explained.
“Intimidation of their own population solely to get money out of them, out of their own people! Especially against the background of the fact that the economy is declining, the standard of living is falling. It's obvious,” Putin said.
When pressed further on the issue by several other TV Reporters, the Russian President gave a verbal list:
1. Russia has no intention of fighting NATO;
2. Falsifications about a possible attack on Poland, the Baltic states and the Czech Republic are a way to deceive the population of these countries;
3. Russia will destroy F-16s in Ukraine in the same way as it destroys Western tanks and other equipment;
4. If F-16s are used against the Russian Armed Forces from airfields in third countries, then these airfields will become a legitimate target for the Russian Federation.
That last item, #4, now seems to be the most likely flash point for an actual NATO/Russia Conflict.
NATO nations have donated F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. But for all their capabilities in the air, F-16's don't handle takeoffs and landings very well IF they are forced to use bumpy runways.
All the airfields within Ukraine have been repeatedly hit by Russian weapons in the ongoing Special Military Operation by Russia. THe runways are not smooth - at all. So F-16's cannot handle those runways very well, if at all.
As such, the thinking inside NATO is that those donated F-16's might be allowed to takeoff from NATO bases in third countries, likely Poland and Romania, launch attacks against the Russian Army inside Ukraine, then fly back to those NATO bases for maintenance, refueling, and re-arming.
Apparently, NATO is deluded into believing allowing such activity would still allow them to say they are "not a party to the conflict." President Putin (once again) laid that delusion to rest in his televised remarks. Ukraine F-16's using bases in third countries to attack Russian forces, would make those bases in third countries legitimate targets for Russia.
Of course, HYPOTHETICALLY, if F-16's took off from inside Poland or Romania, killed Russian troops in Ukraine, then flew back to those bases, the Russians would hit the bases. They would HAVE to for self defense! At that precise moment, Poland and/or Romania could then claim "We have been attacked by Russia" and try to invoke Article 5 of the NATO Treaty, which provides for Collective self-defense.
Given NATO seeming to salivate at the idea of going head-to-head with Russia, the probability of World War 3 breaking out between NATO and Russia is growing by the day. Which brings us to today . . .
In a very unusual move, German NATO forces deployed near Medininkai, Lithuania — just 2km from Belarus border. The map below shows the area:
Trains loaded with German military equipment poured into the region yesterday and this morning, as seen on the video below:
While this was taking place, troops from Belarus began moving toward the border area of Poland and Lithuania. In fact, as of this morning, Belarus has moved twenty-thousand such troops into the small area near the "Swalki Gap" shown in the map below:
This brings up two issues:
1) Belarus does not have the logistics chain to long support twenty-thousand troops deployed here, with food, water, etc. So the THEORY right now is, "something will have to pop-off soon, and this is the place it will happen." AND;
2) The Suwalki Gap was long viewed as the Achilles heel of NATO. Topographically, it is difficult to defend, and even during the Cold War between what was the Soviet Union (USSR) and the West, this land area was viewed as a place where then-Soviet troops could successfully enter, make a land bridge to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, and simultaneously cut-off the Baltic States from the rest of Europe.
Rubbing salt into the situation, Belarus leader Lukashencko, is seen on video below, talking with his army chiefs about this very scenario, specifically mentioning Lithuania and Poland:
Many people in Europe are now cautiously and quietly mentioning "an Easter Surprise" . . .
Easter is this coming weekend . . .
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