U.S. To Deploy 4,000 Troops To Russian Border Next Month
(ANALYSIS) — Since tempers first flared in 2014,
tensions between Russia and the US have nearly boiled over on more than
one occasion. However, recent NATO and US army actions along with a
surge in anti-Russia propaganda throughout the Western world, suggest
that these tensions will only escalate in the months ahead. Last Friday,
new US tanks and armored vehicles arrived in the Netherlands,
where they will be deployed to a storage facility in the province of
Limburg to serve as part of the Army’s “strategically prepositioned
critical war stock.” These tanks and other military assets are intended
for use by the US Army’s recently announced deployment of 4,000 American
troops and around 2,000 military vehicles along Russia’s border. The
deployment breaches the Russia-NATO Founding Act of 1997, which states
that NATO would not seek “additional permanent stationing of substantial
ground combat forces” in nations closer to Russia.
U.S. Ambassador to Estonia James D. Melville Jr. addresses dignitaries
in front of an U.S. Army tank, at a hand-over ceremony of the upgraded
NATO military base in Tapa, Estonia, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016.
(AP/Vitnija Saldava)
