the United States sent 20,000 troops to Europe in April and may 2020 within the framework of its largest military exercises on European soil since the cold war to emphasize the commitment of Washington to NATO, said Tuesday major General USA Barre SEGUIN.
a few days after the NATO summit in London where the US President Donald trump called low-cost European allies overdue, major-General stated that exercises with the participation of Germany would be the largest of its kind in 25 years.
"It does demonstrate transatlantic unity and a US commitment to NATO," said SEGUIN, who oversees the operations of the allies from the military headquarters of NATO in Belgium.
in an effort to keep Russia from any aggressive actions such as the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the U.S. army will test its ability to transport soldiers across the Atlantic to Belgium and the Netherlands, and then quickly move to the East through Germany to Poland and along the Eastern flank of NATO.
NATO has already sent battalions in the Baltic States and Poland to prevent possible Russian incursions. At the same time, Russia says it is not going to attack NATO, and blames the Alliance in the destabilization of Europe.
while the President of France Emmanuel macron questioned the U.S. commitment to NATO because of unrelenting criticism of the allies trump, the President of the USA has also discouraged Europeans, exacerbating America's military presence in Europe.
After seventy years since the establishment in the era of the cold war Alliance aimed against the Soviet Union, statements in the media about undermining Russia Western democracies through cyber attacks, disinformation campaigns and covert operations have given NATO a new sense of purpose.
the Us military also put up a fight with China and Russia in the center of the national defense strategy, shifting priorities after focusing on the fight against Islamist militants.
"We are entering the era of strategic competition in peacetime," said SEGUIN. Al "shifted".
